With a seven-movie Hollywood deal with MGM, million-selling recordings and hailed as "the greatest voice of the twentieth century" and the "new Caruso", handsome American tenor Mario Lanza appeared to ...

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Lanza couldn’t read music, and only took part in a handful of opera productions, but he was the first opera singer to have earned gold records, his versions of Puccini arias selling by the millions.

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In 1921, Mario Lanza was born in an unassuming, two-floor row home at 636 Christian St.. The son of Italian immigrants, he would go on to become an international superstar as an opera singer and actor ...

Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! Flórez was a Mario Lanza Institute scholarship winner, and when the young singers rise ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Italian-American tenor Mario Lanza (1921-59) inspired many with his "once in a century" voice, including later operatic greats such as Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti.

Plácido Domingo hosts this tribute to American tenor Mario Lanza. Interviews, rare footage and vintage recordings chronicle Lanza's life from his Philadelphia childhood to his meteoric rise as an ...

Vincent James DeFini built what might have been the world's biggest collection of Mario Lanza memorabilia. He also befriended other stars. DeFini died April 10 at the Cleveland Clinic after a heart ...

The other is a form of transmitted charisma by which great singers of yesteryear inspire new followers via recordings and film. You can draw a link from Enrico Caruso, one of the first superstars of ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Large tenors often have large personalities. The most famous example may be the late great romantic Luciano Pavarotti, but Mario Lanza, the platinum-selling tenor and movie star ...