"Mario Lanza": this once famous hollywood singer, could he have had a career...
...in opera? BIG TIME? I'm watching a documentary about him on PBS right now(Nevada 11:00 a.m. PST):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Lanza#Operatic_career
A You Tube clip of his "Nessun Dorma":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJZ2XA84MPI
Don't know how many of you are familiar with this singer, film star; but back in the 40-50's he was all the rage - achieving a comparable legendary status easily likened to that of James Dean(am assuming everyone remembers him-?).
Use to be, that the movement from the operatic stage to that of Hollywood, was the standard protocol: Lauritz Melchior, Helen Traubel, Lilly Pons, etc.
But rarely if ever, was the trend in the opposite direction - come to think of it, can't recall of even one instance: can you?
Lanza had offers, quite a few in fact, to perform in opera, but seems to have never appeared in a full length production - correct me if I'm mistaken.
Were he to have done so, do you think he really could have made it into the Big Time?
Alberich
...in opera? BIG TIME? I'm watching a documentary about him on PBS right now(Nevada 11:00 a.m. PST):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Lanza#Operatic_career
A You Tube clip of his "Nessun Dorma":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJZ2XA84MPI
Don't know how many of you are familiar with this singer, film star; but back in the 40-50's he was all the rage - achieving a comparable legendary status easily likened to that of James Dean(am assuming everyone remembers him-?).
Use to be, that the movement from the operatic stage to that of Hollywood, was the standard protocol: Lauritz Melchior, Helen Traubel, Lilly Pons, etc.
But rarely if ever, was the trend in the opposite direction - come to think of it, can't recall of even one instance: can you?
Lanza had offers, quite a few in fact, to perform in opera, but seems to have never appeared in a full length production - correct me if I'm mistaken.
Were he to have done so, do you think he really could have made it into the Big Time?
Alberich