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Few other tenors have enjoyed a success equal to that of Italian tenor Beniamino Gigli, considered the only, true successor of legendary Enrico Caruso. Gigli was born some 17 years later than Caruso, on 20 March 1890 in the small Italian township of Recanati near Ancona on the Adriatic coast.
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He showed a strong inclination for singing at an early age and was admitted to the local cathedral choir before he was 7. The maestro was Quirino Lazzarini, the cathedral organist and the first to give instructions the coming tenor, but he was also taught by Giuseppe Guzzini, the priest of the local cathedral.
His first experience on stage came at the age of 17, still a boy, he played the role of the heroine in a student production of the operetta La fuga di Angelica on 28 April 1907 in the provincial capital, Macerata.
He was refused admittance to the Schola Cantorum in Rome either on grounds of insufficient education or of age; Gigli was 17 and the age limit was 15.
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