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| Caruso |  | Author: Michael Scott
Publisher: Knopf
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 2110610
Media: Hardcover
Edition: First American Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 322
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 6.8 x 1.3
ISBN: 0394536819
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.10924
EAN: 9780394536811
ASIN: 0394536819
Publication Date: June 12, 1988
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Condition: Some wear on cover and pages, ex-library, some stamps and stickers on book, some spine creases, we guarantee all purchases and ship all items via USPS mail.
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 Exhaustive research? August 12, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was given this book by a friend who knows of my love for Caruso's music. The industry reviews on this page talk about the "exhaustive research" done by the author. I had to put the book down after page one: within three paragraphs, the author repeats one of the most preposterous lies about Caruso's life, that his mother had 17 previous children who died within a year of their birth. Then I flipped back to the dust flap, where it claims that Caruso performed "an astonishing 37 major roles each year" at the New York Metropolitan Opera. Newsflash: Caruso's mother did not lose 17 children: Enrico (Errico) was the third of seven children. And no tenor every performed 37 different roles in one year, let alone EVERY year. To accomplish the latter, the Met would have had to run performances 52 weeks a year, with Caruso changing roles every 10 days for 17 years. How can one trust a book that makes mistakes like that before you even get to page 2?
 made good research January 21, 2001
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This biography about the best tenor of them all, Enrico Caruso,is very well written and - what is already much in the collection of the hundreds of Caruso biographies - the facts are well researched. The best is the discography at the end, if you are a collector or just a fan -that's the one to get! If you look for an even more comprehensive biography, get yourself "my father and my family" in the unabridged version by Enrico Caruso jr.
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