Dorothy Caruso Dorothy Caruso Dorothy Caruso (6 August 1893 – 16 December 1955) was an American socialite and the wife of the Italian operatic tenor Enrico Caruso. Dorothy Benjamin was born on 6 August 1893 in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, the daughter of Park Benjamin, a lawyer, and Ida Crane. On 20 August 1918 she married Enrico Caruso, with whom she had a daughter, Gloria; he died in 1921. She married Captain Ernest Augustus Ingram (1892–1954) in London on 14 November 1925. They had a daughter, Jacqueline, and divorced in 1927. She then married Charles Adam Holder (1872–1955) in Paris in 1933. Caruso
Enrico Caruso Metropolitan Opera in New York City where he was the leading tenor for 18 consecutive seasons. It was at the Met, in 1910, that he created the role of Dick Johnson in Giacomo Puccini's "La fanciulla del West". Caruso's voice extended up to high D-flat in its prime and grew in power and weight as he grew older. At times, his voice took on a dark, almost baritonal coloration. He sang a broad spectrum of roles, ranging from lyric, to spinto, to dramatic parts, in the Italian and French repertoires. In the German repertoire, Caruso sang only two roles, Assad