"The Great Caruso" Soiree - Mark Milhofer (tenor), Katalin Csillagh (piano)

This recital programme honours two huge personalities and their unique talents: Enrico Caruso and Mario Lanza. In 1921 the world’s greatest tenor, Enrico Caruso, died at the age of only 48. That same year Mario Lanza, who was to sing the title role in the film The Great Caruso, was born. He too died tragically young. But these two great singers left an amazing legacy of recordings. Caruso was the first singer to sell a million copies of an operatic aria and Lanza sold over 2 million copies of Be My Love, having taught himself to sing by listening to his Father’s collection of Caruso records.
This programme features a selection of the songs and arias that they both brought to a world-wide audience, interspersed with stories about their extraordinary lives and the music they created.
Recorded in my front room (24th April 2022) in front of a select audience (!) this was a dry run for concerts with the English Symphony Orchestra.
Here's the programme:
Be My Love - Nicholas Brodszky
Mattinata - Ruggero Leoncavallo
La donna è mobile - Rigoletto - Giuseppe Verdi
O Sole Mio - Eduardo di Capua
The Flower Song - Carmen - Georges Bizet
A Vucchella - Francesco Paolo Tosti
M'appari - Martha - Friedrich von Flotow
Core 'ngrato - Salvatore Cardillo
Una furtiva lagrima - L'elisir d'amore - Gaetano Donizetti
Because You're Mine - Nicholas Brodszky
Torna a Surriento - Ernesto de Curtis
La Danza - Gioachino Rossini
Encore
Caruso - Lucio Dalla

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