♫ Caruso was the first gramophone star to sell more than a million copies with his 17th of March 1907 recording of "Vesti la giubba" from the opera "Pagliacci" by Ruggero Leoncavallo (1892)
♪ "Pagliacci" premiered at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan on 21 May 1892, conducted by Arturo Toscanini, with Adelina Stehle as Nedda, Fiorello Giraud as Canio, Victor Maurel as Tonio, and Mario Ancona as Silvio.
♪ "Vesti la giubba" is regarded as one of the most moving arias in the operatic repertoire. The pain of "Canio" (actor and leader of a Commedia dell'arte) is portrayed in the aria and exemplifies the entire notion of the "tragic clown", smiling on the outside but crying on the inside.
♫ This is still displayed today as the clown motif often features the painted on tear running down the cheek of the performer.
♪ Caruso IS the Greatest Tenor of All Time (Luciano Pavarotti said: "Caruso and the others")

LYRICS (Testi Italiano)
Recitar! Mentre preso dal delirio!
Non so più quel che dico
e quel che faccio!
Eppur è d'uopo sforzati!
Bah! Sei tu forse un uom?
Tu sei Pagliaccio!

Vesti la giubba
Ela faccia infarina.
La gente paga e rider vuole qua.
E se Arlecchin t'invola Colombina,
ridi, Pagliaccio, e ognun applaudirà!
Tramuta in lazzi
lo spasmo ed il pianto;
in una smorfia il singhiozzo
e'l dolor! Ah!
Ridi, Pagliaccio,
sul tuo amore infranto.
Ridi del duol che t'avvelena il cor.
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