Caruso, Enrico (25 February 1873, Naples; 2 August 1921, Naples), tenor, studied under Guglielmo Vergine and made his debut at the Bellini Theatre in his native city in 1894. By 1900, he had sung there the tenor roles in Umberto Giordano ’s Fedora, Francesco Gilèa ’s Adriana Lecouvreur , and Alberto Franchetti ’s Germania , but he did not acquire an international reputation until he filled his brilliant engagement at Monte Carlo, where he sang with Nellie Melba in La Bohème. He went on to…