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...pure spite and undiluted malice, you would have to go far to beat your Aug. 6 article on Mario Lanza...
...Mario Lanza Fan Club Chicago Chapter...
...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...
...Mario went to Hollywood, and Hollywood has been his Frankenstein. The pressure he is under is tremendous, always having to put up a front; and his voice is not settled yet. He knows he has come up too fast and he feels insecure. For this he overcompensates by boasting and showing off. There is still time. Ten years with the right opera company, and no one could compare with him. But who can expect him, after being a star, to go back to learning? I have been trying to talk him into touring in Italy a year. But you cannot...
...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...