Editing Enrico Caruso (section)

==Repertoire==

Caruso's operatic repertoire consisted primarily of Italian works, along with a few roles in French. He also performed two German operas, Wagner's ''[[Lohengrin (opera)|Lohengrin]]'' and Goldmark's ''[[Die Königin von Saba]]'', singing in Italian, early in his career. Below are the first performances by Caruso, in chronological order, of each of the operas that he undertook on the stage. World premieres are indicated with **.

[[File:CarusoAutograph.jpg|thumbnail|right|Caruso signing his autograph]]

* ''L'amico Francesco'' (Morelli) – Teatro Nuovo, Napoli, 15 March 1895 (debut)**
* ''[[Faust (opera)|Faust]]'' – Caserta, 28 March 1895
* ''[[Cavalleria rusticana]]'' – Caserta, April 1895
* ''Camoens'' (Musoni) – Caserta, May 1895
* ''[[Rigoletto]]'' – Napoli, 21 July 1895
* ''[[La traviata]]'' – Napoli, 25 August 1895
* ''[[Lucia di Lammermoor]]'' – Cairo, 30 October 1895
* ''[[La Gioconda (opera)|La Gioconda]]'' – Cairo, 9 November 1895
* ''[[Manon Lescaut (Puccini)|Manon Lescaut]]'' – Cairo, 15 November 1895
* ''[[I Capuleti e i Montecchi]]'' – Napoli, 7 December 1895
* ''Malia'' ([[Francesco Paolo Frontini]]) – Trapani, 21 March 1896
* ''[[La sonnambula]]'' – Trapani, 25 March 1896
* ''Mariedda'' ({{ill|Gianni Bucceri|it}}) – Napoli, 23 June 1896
* ''[[I puritani]]'' – Salerno, 10 September 1896
* ''[[La favorite|La Favorita]]'' – Salerno, 22 November 1896
* ''A San Francisco'' (Sebastiani) – Salerno, 23 November 1896
* ''[[Carmen]]'' – Salerno, 6 December 1896
[[File:Enrico Caruso selfportrait.jpg|thumb|Caruso's sketch of himself as Canio in ''[[Pagliacci]]'', {{circa|1900}}]]
* ''Un Dramma in vendemmia'' (Fornari) – Napoli, 1 February 1897
* ''Celeste'' (Marengo) – Napoli, 6 March 1897**
* ''Il Profeta Velato'' (Napolitano) – Salerno, 8 April 1897
* ''[[La bohème]]'' – Livorno, 14 August 1897
* ''[[La Navarraise|La Navarrese]]'' – Milano, 3 November 1897
* ''Il Voto'' (Giordano) – Milano, 10 November 1897**
* ''[[L'arlesiana]]'' – Milano, 27 November 1897**
* ''[[Pagliacci]]'' – Milano, 31 December 1897
* ''[[La bohème (Leoncavallo)|La bohème]]'' (Leoncavallo) – Genova, 20 January 1898
* ''[[Les pêcheurs de perles|The Pearl Fishers]]'' – Genova, 3 February 1898
* ''Hedda'' (Leborne) – Milano, 2 April 1898**
* ''[[Mefistofele]]'' – Fiume, 4 March 1898
* ''[[Sapho (Massenet)|Sapho]]'' (Massenet) – Trento, 3 June (?) 1898
* ''[[Fedora (opera)|Fedora]]'' – Milano, 17 November 1898**
* ''[[Iris (opera)|Iris]]'' – Buenos Aires, 22 June 1899
* ''[[Die Königin von Saba|La regina di Saba]]'' (Goldmark) – Buenos Aires, 4 July 1899
* ''Yupanki'' (Berutti)– Buenos Aires, 25 July 1899**
* ''[[Aida]]'' – St. Petersburg, 3 January 1900
* ''[[Un ballo in maschera]]'' – St. Petersburg, 11 January 1900
* ''[[Maria di Rohan]]'' – St. Petersburg, 2 March 1900
[[File:CarusoSketch.jpg|thumbnail|right|Caruso's sketch of himself as Don José in ''[[Carmen]]'', 1904]]
* ''[[Manon]]'' – Buenos Aires, 28 July 1900
* ''[[Tosca]]'' – Treviso, 23 October 1900
* ''[[Le maschere]]'' (Mascagni) – Milano, 17 January 1901**
* ''[[L'elisir d'amore]]'' – Milano, 17 February 1901
* ''[[Lohengrin (opera)|Lohengrin]]'' – Buenos Aires, 7 July 1901
* ''[[Germania (opera)|Germania]]'' – Milano, 11 March 1902**
* ''[[Don Giovanni]]'' – London, 19 July 1902
* ''[[Adriana Lecouvreur]]'' – Milano, 6 November 1902**
* ''[[Lucrezia Borgia (opera)|Lucrezia Borgia]]'' – Lisbon, 10 March 1903
* ''[[Les Huguenots]]'' – New York, 3 February 1905
* ''[[Martha (opera)|Martha]]'' – New York, 9 February 1906
* ''[[Madama Butterfly]]'' – London, 26 May 1906
* ''[[L'Africaine|L'Africana]]'' – New York, 11 January 1907
* ''[[Andrea Chénier]]'' – London, 20 July 1907
* ''[[Il trovatore]]'' – New York, 26 February 1908
* ''[[Armide (Gluck)|Armide]]'' – New York, 14 November 1910
* ''[[La fanciulla del West]]'' – New York, 10 December 1910**
* ''[[Julien (opera)|Julien]]'' – New York, 26 December 1914
* ''[[Samson and Delilah (opera)|Samson et Dalila]]'' – New York, 24 November 1916
* ''[[Lodoletta]]'' – Buenos Aires, 29 July 1917
* ''[[Le prophète]]'' – New York, 7 February 1918
* ''[[L'amore dei tre re]]'' – New York, 14 March 1918
* ''[[La forza del destino]]'' – New York, 15 November 1918
* ''[[La Juive]]'' – New York, 22 November 1919

Caruso also had a repertory of more than 500 songs. They ranged from classical compositions to traditional Italian melodies and popular tunes of the day, including a few English-language titles such as [[George M. Cohan]]'s "[[Over There]]", [[Henry Geehl]]'s "For You Alone" and [[Arthur Sullivan]]'s "[[The Lost Chord]]".