Word: elisir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dorothy the light opera turned to tragedy in December 1920, when Caruso sang L'Elisir d'Amore at the Brooklyn Academy and a blood vessel burst in his throat. On Christmas eve he sang La Juive at the Metropolitan, on Christmas day he was ill with acute pleurisy. By spring he seemed to recover, and Dorothy took him home to Naples, where he died...
...December 1920, while singing L'Elisir d'Amore at the Brooklyn Academy, a blood vessel broke in Caruso's throat. A seasoned trouper, he insisted on going on with the show. While stagehands and fellow singers stood in the wings passing handkerchiefs and towels, he finished the first act though bleeding profusely from the mouth. The audience, noticing that something was wrong, demanded that he stop...