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Enrico Caruso's First Opera Recording

The tenor's pioneering gramophone recordings transformed classical music distribution and proved the commercial viability of recorded voice technology.

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Enrico Caruso was an Italian operatic tenor, who sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and the Americas, appearing in a wide variety of roles that ranged from the lyric to the dramatic. Generally recognized as the first international recording star, Caruso made around 250 commercially released recordings from 1902 to 1920.

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