Word: lanza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cover) It was the emotion-packed end of Act I of Pagliacci, and the clown's heart was broken; the sob-racked notes of Vesti la Giubba soared out of the phonograph, quivered through the cluttered den of Mario (The Great Caruso) Lanza's Beverly Hills home. An exuberant young man with the face of a choir boy and the frame of a prize bull let the vibrations pour over him until he could stand it no longer. His bright black eyes glistened. "Oo, Mario," he cooed lovingly, "you can sing like a sonofabitch ! " Both the voice...
Millions of ardent fans agree with Tenor Lanza, in his admiration of 'the voice that has lifted him, almost as smoothly as it clears high C, from Philadelphia's Little Italy to a unique spot in U.S. show busi ness. For natural power and quality, though not for training or polish, it is a voice that many experts rank with those of the titans of opera. The voice sells Lanza, but Lanza, also sells the voice with curly-haired good looks and a paradoxical combination of beaming boyishness and hairy-chested animal magnetism. He is at once...
Broken Record. Lanza, who learned to sing mainly from listening to phonograph records, is the only classical artist in RCA Victor annals to sell in a year more than 1,000,000 copies of a single record (Be My Love). It is a feat the company happily expects him to repeat with The Loveliest Night of the Year. Though he has sung in only one opera (two performances of Madame Butterfly in New Orleans), his phenomenal drawing power in appearances was matched around the U.S. in the past season only by Britain's Sadler's Wells Ballet...
...these labors, plus a summer radio show for Coca-Cola on Sunday evenings (CBS, 8 p.m., E.D.T.), Mario Lanza this year will rake in something between $750,000 and $1,000,00 -roughly twice last season's deficit of the Metropolitan Opera...
...Mario Lanza Show (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS) gives Tenor Lanza a chance to display a repertoire ranging from such popular songs as Be My Love to Toselli's Serenade. The pause between vocals is enthusiastically filled by Sponsor Coca-Cola...