Roberto Alagna - Recording ’Caruso 1873’

Roberto Alagna recording his new album ’Caruso 1873’, a tribute to the Neapolitan singer Alagna considers the greatest tenor of all time. ► Listen & purchase the album here: The music chosen is a journey back in time through Caruso’s eclectic repertoire. It showcases his personality, blended with Alagna’s own favorites, “so the program reflects me too,” Alagna explains. The album opens with Lucio Dalla’s “Caruso” – a modern song– then turns the clock back to finish with the earliest records. The selection offers many surprises and stretches from Handel and Pergolesi to verismo composers including Cilea and Leoncavallo, contemporaries of Caruso who wrote music for him. Puccini is represented by “Vecchia zimarra”, the bass Colline’s aria from La bohème which – as legend has it – Caruso once sang on stage standing in for an ailing colleague in perfect subterfuge. International release date: 8 Nov 2019 CONNECT WITH ROBERTO A