Word: caruso
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poleri. A Philadelphian who began to study voice only five years ago, Poleri got little attention in his own country until he made his debut in Manon at the New York City Opera this spring (TIME, April 2)-and had some listeners mentioning him in the same breath with Caruso. As Don Alvaro in Verdi's bloody La Forza del Destino last week, Poleri had the same kind of effect on Edinburgh. Wrote the critic of the London Daily Express: "The kind of tenor singing which an opera addict is lucky to hear once in five years...
With Show Boat and Caruso piling up record grosses across the nation, Hollywood's moviemakers are scrambling to get aboard the new bandwagon. By the end of this year the major studios alone will have produced 39 musicals (16 more than last year), plus a dozen more pictures with a yeasty leavening of singing and dancing. Among them: An American in Paris (with music from George Gershwin's suite of the same name), Texas Carnival, Belle of New York. One result of the new trend: Hollywood is running so short of dancing talent that the Central Casting Agency...
...Great Caruso...
...such serious musicians as Dr. Peter Herman Adler, the conductor who worked with him in The Great Caruso, the case of Mario Lanza is a peculiarly American tragedy. "Opera singers are like wild animals," says Dr. Adler. "They must be trained, kept in strict discipline. In Italy, there are a dozen opera houses for young singers to train where they can be in the right artistic atmosphere. Where in America can a young singer go but these two opera houses in New York (the Met and the N.Y. City Opera), to sing once or twice a week in minor roles...
...right, and his big voice begins to slip, he may still enjoy a long movie career; MGM's expert sound technicians, who now do virtually no tampering with Lanza's voice, can work wonders with their electronic gadgets. And if the scripts seem anticlimactic after The Great Caruso, he can always look ahead to the all-fracturing day when some smart producer will star Mario Lanza, in The Great Lanza...