Enrico Caruso Autographs
Enrico Caruso (/kəˈruːzoʊ/, US also /kəˈruːsoʊ/, Italian: ; 25 February 1873 – 2 August 1921) was an Italian operatic first lyric tenor then dramatic tenor. He 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.
Enrico Caruso came from a poor but not destitute background. Born in Naples in the via Santi Giovanni e Paolo n° 7 on 25 February 1873, he was baptised the next day in the adjacent Church of San Giovanni e Paolo. His parents originally came from Piedimonte d'Alife (now called Piedimonte Matese), in the Province of Caserta in Campania, Southern Italy.
Caruso was the third of seven children and one of only three to survive infancy. For decades, there was a story of Caruso's parents having had 21 children, 18 of whom died in infancy. However, on the basis of genealogical research (amongst others conducted by Caruso family friend Guido D'Onofrio), biographers Pierre Key, Francis Robinson, and Enrico Caruso Jr. and Andrew Farkas, have proven this to be untrue. Caruso himself and his brother Giovanni may have been the source of the exaggerated number. Caruso's widow Dorothy also included the story in her best-selling memoir about her husband, published in 1945. She allegedly quoted the tenor, speaking of his mother, Anna Caruso (née Baldini): "She had twenty-one children. Twenty boys and one girl – too many. I am number nineteen boy."
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Current items with a signature of Enrico Caruso
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| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | Caricature Enrico Caruso Italian Opera Tenor w Original Signed Autograph 1917 !! | $1,299.99 |  |
| Caricature Enrico Caruso Italian Opera Tenor w Original Signed Autograph 1917 !! | $1,299.99 | |
Traded items with a signature of Enrico Caruso
The most expensive item with a signature of Enrico Caruso (Rare Autographed Mishkin Photogravure of Enrico Caruso as Eleazar in La Juive) was sold in October 2014 for $1,750.00 while the cheapest item (Original Sisco caricature of Enrico Caruso for Vincent La Selva. Signed Cracked) found a new owner for $5.00 in April 2025. The month with the most items sold (3) was February 2018 with an average selling price of $202.50 for an autographed item of Enrico Caruso. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in March 2021 with $1,400.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $12.99 was April 2020. In average, an autographed item from Enrico Caruso is worth $280.00.
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