Opera star Enrico Caruso, dressed as a clown, holding the back of a chair in the opera "Pagliacci" in 1908.

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Enrico Caruso - 25 February 1873 – 2 August 1921 was an Italian operatic tenor. He sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and the Americas, appearing in a wide variety of roles from the Italian and French repertoires that ranged from the lyric to the dramatic. One of the first major singing talents to be commercially recorded, Caruso made approximately 260 commercially released recordings from 1902 to 1920, which made him an international popular entertainment star. All of these recordings, which span most of his stage career, remain available today on CDs and as downloads and digital streams.

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