Title: Enrico Caruso
Subtitle: his life and voice
First published: 1974
Description: This book is the English adaptation rather than translation of a former book by Jean-Pierre Mouchon on tenor Caruso's life, singing voice, art, technique, and linguistic abilities. A whole chapter (IV) is also dedicated to the causes of Caruso's death. There are photos and sonagrams in the text. This digest was published in 1974 four years before the author had his viva at La Sorbonne, Paris IV, in 1978. His important thesis in three volumes has been recently recast and enlarged and crammed with new facts, reviews, unpublished pictures and letters.
Subjects: Singer, life, voice, craftsmanship, technique, linguistic abilities.
Places: Naples, Rome, Milan, London, Paris, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Buenos Aires...
People: Enrico Caruso (1873-1921)
Time periods: XIX th and XXth centuries
LC classification: ML420.C259 M73