CHAP. 4 – THE TRAFFIC IN VOICES

Caruso as Cavaradossi in Tosca

Here’s a recording of Caruso singing “E Lucevan le stelle” from Puccini’s Tosca. As noted in the opening of the chapter, the writer A. J. Liebling and others considered Caruso a singer of superhuman abilities:

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