Enrico Caruso Museum of America

OK. it’s time to hit 200^th review. hooray! play the fanfare for Julie! =D
there were too many lists for it. had to debate with my remarkable Korean, Hometown, and Music love. finally this place got the title! ta-​da~~
let’s go to Enrico Caruso Museum in Brooklyn! — the unbelievably greatest big lung tenor ever~
been only few months in NY. unlikely now =), I didn’t have many friends at that time. been on lots of talk thread and cried for it. some Unilocalers recommended to join Meet-​Up. so? I did join ‘Opera Lover (I know. sounds boring. but I am one of operaholic),’ and headed to my first time meet-​up on crazily memorable cold snowing day on March. oh, well… holy scheisse.
hop into the Q train for all the way down to Brooklyn, took off Avenue U, and walked thru 3 blocks and 1 & half avenue more to get there. oh yeah. on crazily memorable cold snowing day. museum itself. looked like a small non-​typical two story house. if there wasn’t a small sign with a big flag, we might miss that place. rang the bell, and the museum owner (grrrr… forgot to write down his and his 40 yrs wife’s name — will update later) welcomed to us and joked about wonderful weather. since it was my first visit, paid donationable $ 15.00 for whole 1 year membership. it’s for free 6 lectures via appointment, and visit whenever. was good deal and also got lots of laugh form him.
on that day, he lectured about Arturo Toscanini (March 25, 1867 ~ January 16, 1957), got numerous information about his life history, background, love, music and relationship with Enrico Caruso (February 25, 1873 ~ August 2, 1921). was interested and helpful to deeply understand the greatest Italian opera conductor. was trying to take a note with my best, but wasn’t good enough for everything cuz of his to die for unique silly jokes.
the collection about Caruso was huge! and of course, it’s the largest characteristic collection in US. costumes form opera, pictures, LPs, posters, and personal goods. most of them were from his father, and his passed away partner and him… they’d collected from world-​widely. moreover, there’s the small movie theater with colorful pictures and posters. it’d built and upgraded by himself.
according to him, it’s going to move in Little Italy as part of Italian Opera Museum this year or maybe next year (they are still deciding the date) and the original place’s going to be new born as Music Museum after that. let’s see. what’s happening…
also, it was the day of the perfect Cheesecake, S&S! my body was freezing with gorgeous weather, yet my heart was fulfilling with Music and Cheesecake. hope, I can have another finest day soon…