There are a lot of nice recordings of this, and I just listened to about a half dozen of them, but Caruso totally owns this one. Sorry, folks, he's simply the best.
I'm getting a bit tired of the discussions I've had about the digitally remastered versions. I've also upload about 80 Caruso arias/song that were NOT remastered. - I definately prefer those myself, but for someone who never heard his voice before (younger generation) the digitally remasted version can and has been be the entrance to the real stuff. So that's why !
The original voice recording is from 1919 (mx.A23139).
Is good with the new orchestration too. He wood need 4 more years to catch the electrical recording era.