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
David Hughes (tenor) David Hughes (tenor) David Hughes (born Geoffrey Paddison; 11 October 1925 – 19 October 1972) was an English pop and opera singer. Paddison was born in Bournbrook, Birmingham, England to an English mother and Welsh father. As a child he listened to records by Caruso. He found work as a railway clerk at Curzon Street, Birmingham. During his time there he was invited to sing "On the Road to Mandalay" at an office concert. This was so well received that he started taking professional singing lessons. He also was an RAF cadet and took flying lessons at Wythall airfield near