Salerni: Tony Caruso's Final Broadcast

Label: NAM
Catalog: 8669031
Format: CD

Eric Fennell (Tony Caruso), Jacquelyn Familant (Intern), Jan Opalach (Engineer), Henry Fogel (Announcer), Vicki Doney (Marketer 1), Val Hawk (Marketer 2), Nancy Reed (Marketer 3), Dísella Làrusdóttir (Nun), Keith Phares (Priest), Rory Lipkis (Young Tony), Alison Tupay (Tony’s Mother), Phoebe Fennell (Maria Callas) & Patricia Risley (The Dark Woman), Monocacy Chamber Orchestra, Jung-Ho Pak

Paul Salerni: Salerni: Tony Caruso’s Final Broadcast

Paul Salerni’s award-winning opera with a libretto by Dana Gioia takes place in a classical music radio station on the last night of its operations.
Its last program, ‘Opera Lover’, is hosted by Antonio Caruso, who remembers his early dreams of artistic fame as the ‘second Caruso’ and is visited by three ghosts — his dead mother, Maria Callas, and a mysterious woman.
Praised for his ‘resplendent vocalism’ (American Record Guide) and his ‘lusciously sweet voice, with its ringing, perfectly-tuned high notes’ (Opera Now), the young tenor Eric Fennell sings the title role.

Price: $19.98