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Enrico Caruso - O sole mio (1916)


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Just as Charley Patton and Robert Johnson made their Mississippi Delta universal, Enrico Caruso has lent Naples a status that the richer and more celebrated Italian cities of Rome and Florence can never hope to match. The tenor singer had a beautiful voice and became one of the world's first superstar entertainers.

Caruso is the great icon of canzone napoletana (Neapolitan song), and \"O sole mio\" remains the city's anthem—an epic ballad that effortlessly blends popular song and opera. The masters of canzone napoletana can be regarded as forefathers to the Sinatra/Martin axis; indeed, Caruso was the original role model for all male ballad singers. His version of \"O sole mio\" builds and broods with great Neapolitan character. Despite Caruso being one of opera's greatest tenors, it is this anthem of his home city that most listeners know him by.

\"O sole mio\" translates as \"my sun,\" and the song begins by celebrating a sunny day, before moving on to unfold as a great love song. It was popular before Caruso recorded it (the song was written in 1898), but Caruso's recording popularized the song internationally. His rendition of it at New York's Metropolitan Opera was so well received that audiences demanded he sing it ever after. Both in concert and on vinyl, Caruso helped make \"O sole mio\" a standard—and effectively turned it into an alternative Italian national anthem.


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