This is an ongoing artistic research project by Karen Stuke on Enrico Caruso’s life and the history of his time until contemporary

the centenary 2021 ›››
See the Caruso kronenboden collection grow!!
the Caruso kronenboden collection is consisting of following items:

photographs from various photographers like Aimé Dupon and Herman Mishkin

135 shellac records
from 1902 till 1920

stamps from Italy, Monaco, Niger, Bulgaria, Nicaragua, Germany…
from 1970 till 2022

Now we know how he smelled 😉

the festival at kronenboden Berlin was named after this advertisement for RCA Victor Bi-Acoustic Tone in 1932

books ›››
in Arabic, English, Estonian, French, German, Italian, Russian, …

films about Enrico Caruso,
films in which he’s playing a role,
films where he’s mentioned
from 1918 till 2014

several other singers were and are literally named after Enrico Caruso either to honor him or for their own marketing purposes

quotes and recipes ›››
various recipes named after Enrico Caruso, recipes he might have invented and a recipe why he will come back to Napoli –
in German, English and Italian

Karen Stuke with Federico Caruso and Enrico Caruso Jr.IV
Ristorante Museo Caruso
Sorrento, 2019

This collection was made possible by the award for artistic project spaces and initiatives, which the project space „Kronenboden“, run by Karen Stuke, received from the Berlin Senate for Culture and Europe in 2017.