Caruso - Santa Lucia (Andrey Kravchenko)

“Santa Lucia“ (Roberto Loreti, Luciano Pavarotti, Enrico Caruso) Santa Lucia is a traditional Neapolitan song. It was transcribed by Teodoro Cottrau (1827–1879) and published by the Cottrau firm, as a “barcarolla“, at Naples in 1849. Cottrau translated it from Neapolitan into Italian during the first stage of the Risorgimento, the first Neapolitan song to be given Italian lyrics. Its transcriber, who is very often credited as its composer, was the son of the French-born Italian composer and collector of so