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I was sploshing about in a hotel bath recently and, as is my wont, giving my favorite aria the full monty, when it occurred to me to wonder if Enrico Caruso ever did the same. The greatest tenor of the early 20th century (and the highest paid) spent most of his life in hotels. In 1908 he shared the New York Savoy Hotel with the Metropolitan Opera's new conductor, Gustav Mahler. The two massive egos got on pretty well, perhaps because misery loves company: Caruso's paramour had just run away with the chauffeur, and Mahler's own married life was suffering from similar lack of drive.

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