Francesco Tamagno heard on the stages of London and New York during the late-Victorian Era. Tamagno, however, refused to perform Wagnerian works, even in Italian translation; he believed that the tessitura of the music written for Wagner's tenor heroes lay too low to suit his vocal range. Tamagno lived long enough to witness the rise to fame of the young Enrico Caruso (1873–1921). He admired Caruso's ability, predicting as far back as 1898 that Caruso would go on to become the number-one Italian tenor of the 20th century. As M. J. Phillips-Matz observes in her 2002 Puccini biography, Tamagno and Caruso actually
Dan Caruso Dan Caruso Dan Caruso (born July 1, 1963) is an American entrepreneur, investor and the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Zayo Group Holdings, Inc., a bandwidth infrastructure services company headquartered in Boulder, Colorado. Caruso began his career in 1986 as a manager at Ameritech, a telecommunications company. In 1992, Caruso joined MFS Communications, a provider of business grade telecommunication products, and served on its executive team until it was sold to WorldCom in 1996. At WorldCom, Caruso worked as senior vice president for a short time, but left in 1997 to co-found Level 3 Communications, Inc, a telecommunications and internet