Borough President joins Italian consul general, Caruso grandson at Enrico Caruso Museum
To hear the Honorable Consul General of Italy Natalia Quintavalle cordially calling Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz “Marty” was music to our ears. Both Markowitz and Quintavalle, accompanied by her deputy, Lucia Pasqualini, were visiting the Enrico Caruso Museum of America for the first time on Monday, Oct. 7
The museum, located at 1942 East 19th St. between Avenues S and T, has had thousands of visitors over the last quarter century. It is the “dream come true” of Cavaliere Ufficale Aldo Mancusi. His wife Lisa allowed him to make their upstairs apartment into a shrine to the immortal Neapolitan tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921).
Among the special guests were Eric Murray, Caruso’s grandson, and his wife Lynne. Murray’s mother Gloria was Caruso’s daughter from his American bride Dorothy. Murray told us that we all have to leave something that betters humankind.
Mancusi spoke lovingly of the great tenor, whose voice thrilled the world and still reverberates in the museum via old phonograph horns and a colorful jukebox.