enrico caruso
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When Singing To No One In Particular Was The Hot New Thing
Back in 1910 the highest paid singer in the world was blazing trails into the future. Italian opera singer Enrico Caruso reportedly pulled in a quarter of his $US200,000 income (about $US4.8 million adjusted for inflation) from singing to an audience of nobody. Which is to say, he was singing for recordings that would be…