Enrico Caruso - O Lola ch'ai di latti la cammisa ('Siciliana') - 1905

Mascagni - Cavalleria rusticana
Enrico Caruso - O Lola
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Lyrics:

O Lola, white and red as the cherry
In your nightdress white as milk,
When you appear at the window you smile;
Happy he who gave you your first kiss!
The mark of blood is over your door,
But I care not if I am killed;
If through you I die and go to Paradise,
It will not be Paradise for me unless you are there.
Ah! ah! ah! ah!
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O Lola ch'ai di latti la cammisa
Si bianca e russa comu la cirasa,
Quannu t'affacci fai la vucca a risu,
Biato cui ti de lu primmu vasu!
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu e sparsu,
E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu.
E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu
Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
Ah! ah! ah! ah!

[chessiepique]

Something special in Caruso's voice still touches our hearts after 110 years and countless improvements in recording quality. I hope he is never forgotten.

[nthdegree]

Its amazing. What a voice. Caruso is simply amazing. He recorded this aria more than a few times. I can only imagine what it would have been like to hear this voice in a theater in full volume.

[joaopaulorusso]

Il più grande tenore di tutti i tempi ♥️

[davidchalcraft]

Caruso had it all, power, beauty and that breath control. Simply amazing.

[이종선-fb]

크래시컬 뮤직사에 길이 기록될 최고의 테너 ! 아름답고도 힘찬 보이스!감히누가따라올건가?

[hectorbravo]

La primera etapa del tenor, casi un lírico ligero, voz muy clara y ágil, supongo que antes de su cirugía (entiendo que hubo dos al menos). En esa etapa compensaba la carencia del registro sobreagudo con unos falsettones muy bien trabajados.

[oldoperafan_in_London]

Hundred years on, his voice and passion remain almost unmatched in this aria.

[margaretjiantonio]

Pavarotti had it right. There's Caruso and the rest of us.

[rosalbaanzalone]

Sapreste trovare Franco Tumminelli in un disco di Giovanni Battista Fardella? (Ricordi fuori catalogo)

[aetion]

Isn't the tempo a little too quick, especially in the beginning, or am I mistaken?

[johnfalstaff]

It is much too fast. Compare it with the same 1905 recording on other Youtube downloads.