Re: [mascagni-interest] Caruso Biography entry

[John Mucci]

The Farkas book is not clear on the date: Caruso, Jr talks about the winter 
of 1914 - I assume it is 1913-14.

However, what makes it odder for me is that if you look at Caruso's 
performances (from Michael Scott's biography) in 1913--

Jan - NY
March - Boston
April - Atlanta
May -- June  - London
[June-Sept] nothing

September  - Vienna/Munich
October - Stuttgart/Berlin/Hamburg
November 1913 - April 1914 -  New York
1914

May - Atlanta
May - June - London
[July - October] nothing

October 19 - Rome

Nov - February 1915 - New York.

February -  September - tour of South America.

So it looks like the only two times this might have happened is  
June-September 1913 or July-October 1914. Hardly what one would call the 
winter.  So I take it with a grain of salt, but to have Caruso's son talk 
about this with such certainty is very odd.



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From: Erik Bruchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [mascagni-interest] Caruso Biography entry
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:56:23 -0700
I had never heard of this episode. Is Caruso talking about the winter
1913-1914 or 1914-1915?
You would think that if Mascagni was indeed "severely wounded", he or
somebody else would have mentioned it. It will be interesting to try
to figure this one out!
-Erik

John Mucci wrote:

> In the 1990 biography of Caruso written by his son, Enrico Caruso,
> Jr.  and Andrew Farkas (Amadeus Press) there is an extraordinary
> paragraph concerning Mascagni. It is 1914, just before the war, and
> Caruso is spending the winter in Livorno:
>
> "We often ate at a restaurant on the beach that Papa especially
> liked, possibly because its seaside setting reminded him of Naples.
> On many occasions, we drove to Antignano or Castilglioncello outside
> Livorno.  Most Sundays we went to church, usuallywithout Father.  I
> distinctly remember the moment one Sunday morning after Mass when a
> jealous husband tried to shoot his wife, who was with another man,
> and hit Pietro Mascagni instead, severely wounding him in the head.
> The Maestro was just leaving church and walked into the line of
> fire.  [The author's brother] Fofo and I went to pay our respects
> after Mascagni came home from the hospital."
>
> Mascagni shot in the head?? Has anyone recounted this incident
> before?  This would have been between the performances of Parisina
> and the composition of Rapsodia Satanica--but I've not heard it
> mentioned before.  Has anyone else out there?
>
> John Mucci
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