Torna a Surriento
Come Back to Sorrento
Torna a Surriento is a Neapolitan song composed in 1902 by Italian musician Ernesto De Curtis to words by his brother, the poet and painter Giambattista De Curtis. The song has become one of the most popular songs of this traditional genre, which includes O sole mio, Funiculì, funiculà, and Santa Lucia.
Torna a Surriento has been sung by many performers, including Frank Sinatra, Beniamino Gigli, Elvis Presley, Dean Martin, Enrico Caruso, José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Ruggero Raimondi, Meat Loaf, and Mario Lanza. Sergio Franchi covered the song in his 1962 album Romantic Italian Songs, which peaked at Number-17 on the Billboard Top 200.
Claude Aveling wrote an English version, entitled Come Back to Sorrento. Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman rearranged it and wrote a new set of lyrics for Elvis Presley, and the resulting song Surrender (1961) was one of the best selling singles of all time.
Ernesto De Curtis (1875 - 1937) was a composer from Naples, Italy. He was a great-grandson of composer Saverio Mercadante and the brother of poet Giambattista De Curtis, with whom he wrote the song Torna a Surriento. Ernesto De Curtis wrote more than one hundred songs.
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