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Article: Caruso gets computerized.(tenor Enrico Caruso)(Review) (sound recording review)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- March 27, 2000
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Close your eyes, sit back, and pretend you are at New York's Metropolitan Opera. Performing is the great Enrico Caruso, accompanied by a modern orchestra. Some purists balk at Caruso 2000 (RCA, $17), which uses a computer to meld early-1900s recordings with today's Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. But rarely has Caruso's dramatic tenor sounded richer or more focused on record. With a full-bodied stereo orchestra subbing for the thin sound of the original backing, the new CD comes as close as may be possible to a night at the opera with the singing son of Naples.
Much of the credit for the success of Caruso 2000 goes to Vienna-based executive producer Gottfried ...
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Article: Enrico Caruso, a Singer As Big as All Opera
The Washington Post;
October 25, 2001 ;
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... ... Henry James, Ingmar Bergman -- and think of Enrico Caruso. Eighty years after his death, Caruso (1873-1921) remains a towering figure in ... the tenor in person. And yet, every year, Caruso's recordings continue to sell by the thousands ...
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