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Excerpt from Opera Singers: A Pictorial Souvenir, With Biographies of Some of the Most Famous Singers of the Day
The manner in which Mr. Conried came to engage Caruso is most interest ing. When he became Grau's successor he made up his mind that the time was ripe for a revival Of interest in Italian opera. But where was the tenor for the experiment. It must be remembered that Conried had not been an impresario, but an actor, and after that the manager of a German stock theatre. It is an actual fact that even Caruso's name was unknown to him. So he began his search for a tenor, and mark how cleverly he went about the matter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
