The Great Caruso Crowther says, "All of the silliest, sappiest clichés of musical biography have been written by Sonya Levien and William Ludwig into the script. And Richard Thorpe has directed in a comparably mawkish, bathetic style." Nearly 40 years after its release, Caruso's son, Enrico, Jr., reminisced that, "Vocally and musically "The Great Caruso" ...has helped many young people discover opera, and even become singers themselves."He added that, "I can think of no other tenor, before or since Mario Lanza, who could have risen with comparable success to the challenge of playing Caruso in a screen biography." The film has also been
Girolamo Caruso 1923. On 12 November 1925, in the lecture room of Agronomy of "Istituto superiore agrario of Pisa", they placed a marble bust of Girolamo Caruso, carved by Giuseppe Michelotti, similar to those of Cosimo Ridolfi and Pietro Cuppari, wanted by Caruso himself. Alcamo, his native town, has remembered him by entitling him a street and the homonymous Technical Institute (now ITET). In 1873, in one of his introductory reports, Caruso put in evidence the social, economic, and productive implications of the "mezzadria" (called metayage in English): first of all it had to exist, from the economic point of view, for