Absolutely was underrated - sometimes I think some experts have ears but not "heart". You have to listen to Lanza with your heart because he was singing to that really. Callas was too, and some knocked her. I was listening to a Met performance the other day and the tenor got much applause, probably because he could force out a high note here and there, notes with "technique" to make it work written all over them I like many singers but golly some that we pay today should listen to Lanza and then go back to square one.
Für mich war er der Weltbeste Tenor , da er alle Msikrichtungen singen konnte. Gott warum musste er so früh sterben !? Suche noch immer einen Tenorstimme die so ähnlich ist. Er war göttlich! Er sang immer mit Herz und Seele ! Ich liebe dich ,wir werden uns Wiedersehen!
Mario Lanza-this scene from the movie Serenade was sublime but never was given the accolades it deserved and neither was his acting. In my opinion -maybe one day critics will finally acknowledge just how great he was. Unfortunately Mario thought this film could re-launch his career but instead the critics only picked on him for his appearance instead of his superb singing-what an injustice was done to this wonderful man. May he rest in well-deserved peace!
Somente MARIO cantava com tanta emoção. Sua magnífica voz é uma grande dádiva de Deus para nós que , neste dia de saudades quando faz 54 anos que ele nos deixou, estamos sentindo tanto sua falta. Que Deus o abençoe.
... Марио Ланца очень органичен был на сцене, имея такой Шикарный голос: голос объёмный, красивый, широчайшего диапазона... в этом отрыве как великолепно он звучит(!), а ведь это репетиция... понятно, что есть сюжетная линия фильма и мы видим прекраснейшее выступление Певца... каждое выступление Марио Ланца "говорит" нам о его Большом даровании🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
OMG...outstanding...everythig, vocal, expression, intensity, ...I wonder if in this life I'll witness this kind of verismo. Still waiting and hoping. ❤
Today, october 7, 55 years without you, MARIO my love. I know you are with God and singing to Him but I'm very sad because you are part of my life. Pray for me, dear.
Gigi Insulana beautifull Gigi.....i see Mario was everything for you.......yes 57 years whithout this giant amound us....his voice is miracle and he is God of tenor........... Bravo Mario... Gigi how old are you?
Only in your opinion,sure he was good,but best ever,not by a long shot,and surely not ahead of bjoerling,gedda,kraus,gigli,caruso,corelli,del monaco,di stefano,and many many more i could name
@@amantedellopera1681 Not Only in my opinion many opera stars said the same Mario Lanza the unique color in his voice the way he sang songs and opera with passion emotion en power was outstanding.For me and many many more people Mario Lanza is The Voice Of The 20th Century without any doubt.
@@31.01 he had a very nice voice,could sing opera but chose not too,the lure of hollywood was too strong.i dont know how he would have faired as an opera singer and we will never know,therefore you cant call him the greatest tenor ever,as he only once sang a full opera that being butterfly.
David, I agree with John completely, Mario had the most brilliant, expressive, versatile and most beautiful Tenor voice I have ever heard! Yes! There was limited operatic stage experience but he had extensive concert experience. I really don’t know why people get so hung up on the lack of operatic stage experience. John never said he was the greatest opera singer, he said he had the most brilliant Tenor voice, that’s subjective I know but I genuinely feel he does indeed have the most impressive and thrilling Tenor voice I have ever heard.
Mario: great among the great! I was 16 years old in 1951 and became a fan of his and watched all his films - I remember the dear old experts and purists denigrated him as just a hollywood star who could sing a few arias - Thanks to him, opera had a revival that after six decades persists -Pavarotti, Domingo and many other stars recognize him as the inspiration of their vocations .regards from Lima, Peru, Jul17, 2016
Lanza was truly one of the greats ! Pavarotti was an excellent tenor but not to the same level. Domingo was only good at the very beginning of his career though
Das Maß aller Dinge für mich als Otello: Giovanni Martinelli und vor allem Mario del Monaco ( Ramon Vinay ist auch noch zu erwähnen)! Mario Lanza macht seine Sache hier ohne Zweifel sehr gut! Wo wäre dieser Tenor bei einer klassischen Opernkarriere gelandet, mit Sicherheit ganz, ganz weit oben!
prova solo per un film, purtroppo!!!!!! voce e interpretazione del disperato Otello magnifiche e che mi stupiscono poichè questo brano non lo avevo ancora sentito
If asked which song best showcases Mario Lanza's extraordinary gift, it would be impossible to choose just one, but this one would certainly be included in the list.
I love this scene one of Lanzas best interpretations also I think Serenade his best Movie his acting was great why he was attacked by arsehole critics who can only be envious of his talent is beyond me He was and is a LEGEND ask any TENOR and they will bow down there heads in admiration
I love Mario's interpretation in this rehearsal scene. He is fantastic and would have made a tremendous Othello on stage. Thank you so much for sharing this with us, Vince. I would have greatly loved seeing him do the opera. Hugs, Kat 😏
Marii Lanza studied for more than 2 years with Maestro Rosatti, and 5 months with melocchi.... What do you think he learned with all those teachers??? To sell lemonade? No sir... He learned to sing OPERA... Whoever says he was a product of Hollywood just dont understand what opera preparatuon is about.... Mario Lanza other than studying with melocchi and rosatti had an amazing color of voice... Even without tecnique he would've been the tenor with the most Beautiful voice.
Caro amigo: Concordo plenamente com você. Mario é, realmente, colossal, maravilhoso e em todos os momentos sua emoção estava presente. Obrigada por sua opinião sobre o maior tenor de todos os tempos: MARIO LANZA.
The standard for this aria is Jon Vickers in my humble opinion. Lanza is certainly very good. So difficult to judge a singer who has not performed the role on stage. At his best he was very good and has obviously left an amazing legacy. Anyone who says he was untrained is plain wrong. There is no way a singer could accomplish what Lanza did without a very solid technique which he had in spades!
As well as three performances in Butterfly in New Orleans, he previously sang Fenton (to great acclaim by the national music critics who attended the festival) in 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' at the Berkshire Music Festival, on his graduation from his opera course at the Berkshire School of Music, Tanglewood, Mass. He was given a free scholarship to Berkshire, by it's director, the conductor Serge Koussevitsky, who heard Lanza sing when on a conducting engagement in Philadelphia, where Lanza lived. He said at the time that 'A voice like this comes along only once in a hundred years'. Lanza's budding career, which was always directed at the operatic stage, was put on hold immediately on his return home from Tanglewood, by his call up into the military, where he spent the next three years, returning to civilian life in 1945. He then resumed his training in New York, eventually spending sixteen months studying with Enrico Rosati, who was the vocal coach and teacher to many greats, among them Beniamino Gigli. Like Koussevitsky, he also was amazed by Lanza's voice and is quoted as saying 'I have waited twenty-three years for this voice'. So, yes, he lacked the on-stage operatic experience, but he had a very extensive concert career both prior to going into films and beyond , and his amazing instinctive feeling for the music he recorded, much of the time resulted in performances which stood up very well to comparison with those of singers who had stage experience. The consensus, if assessed without prejudice, has to be, that the direction he finally took deprived the opera world of what could have been one of it's greatest tenors.
*Roman Branc* You`re very poorly informed. I suggest you read Edward Kerrigan`s response to you, to which I would add that Lanza was indeed a formally trained opera singer and rightly always regarded himself as such. Enrico Rosati was not his only noted vocal coach; another was the distinguished repetiteur Leila Edwards who coached him for the Role of Pinkerton with the New Orleans Opera Company in 1948, and was later to remark on how quickly he picked up the role. Yet another was the fine veteran baritone and Lanza`s colleague and friend, Robert Weede. Yet another still, was Caruso`s coach, Giacomo Spadoni, and in the final period of Lanza`s life, in Italy, he had two distinguished coaches, Annibale Bizelli - a coach from the Rome Opera - and Franco Zauli. To the list of Lanza`s operatic appearances mentioned by Mr Kerrigan, I would add that in 1940, then 20, he joined the former Rome Opera tenor Rodolpho Pili`s 'Grand Opera Company', performing in several opera`s under Pili`s direction at venues around Philadelphia. An example is 'Crispino e la Comare', an 1850 work by Frederico and and Luigi Ricci in which Lanza performed the lead tenor role - to "huge success" according to writer and critic Marion Benasutti. You`ve heard and seen here what many would regard as one of the finest interpretations of this aria extant - superbly, excitingly and so convincingly sung, marvelously enacted, and yet you say "He was not an opera singer". Apparently you`re quite unable to allow yourself to hear through your very obvious dismissive prejudice. Lanza knew personally many of the established opera singers of his time (including Bjorling, Tucker, Albanese, Tebaldi to name a few), who all admired him and so wanted him to join them at the Met and the other great opera houses. Here`s the abbreviated assessment of Lanzas` voice by some of them. Di Stefano "... I don`t think he realised how good he was..." Dorothy Kirsten "...Mario could have sung in any opera house in the world, and his career could have been sensational..." Tebaldi "...Lanza has the finest natural tenor voice I`ve ever heard..." George London..." In my opinion, Lanza, with the possible exception of Bjorling, had the greatest voice of his time... his singing could move people to tears and, in my presence, frequently did. I would venture that if he had not gone to Hollywood he would have had a major operatic career..." Franco Correlli "...Mario Lanza`s singing was both convincing and full of heart..." Maria Callas..."My biggest regret is not having had the opportunity to sing with the greatest tenor voice I`ve ever heard..." And finally, conductor Richard Bonynge, with Joan Sutherland, speaking of attending Lanza`s first Albert Hall concert in London in 1957...." We were both surprised by the size of the voice - we were also impressed by Lanza`s innate musicality. No doubt he could have had an outstanding operatic career..."
@@toff358 I have never mentioned anything related to the voice and quality of his singing. I just said that he was not an opera singer. Which I sustain. Opera is not only singing, it is performance and interpretation throughout 2 or more hours on stage. Unfortunately the only record of Lanza we have, are recitals and movie clips. In my opinion, that's not enough to say that he was an opera singer. Anyway I understand and respect your position.
@@rb020969 You also said "In fact he never sang a complete opera on stage in his entire life." That is demonstrably incorrect and I corrected you. We do in fact have some written "record" of critical reaction - that of critical reaction to his performances with the New Orleans Opera company, which are uniformly highly flattering, although of course 'Madama Butterfly' is Butterfly`s opera, not Pinkerton`s. No opera singer is ever on stage continuously and relentlessly "throughout two or more hours" - as with actors in the theatre, and depending on the opera, they typically spend some time off stage in the wings before being required to go on stage once more. Lanza trained assiduously as an opera singer with the distinguished coaches I`ve mentioned. He performed on the operatic stage, albeit sadly all too infrequently and briefly (mostly his own fault), his concerts from first to last always included a large component of arias, as of course did his films and studio recordings. He was then, surely by any non opera snob definition, an opera singer.
Simon Bam There's a Russian fable that I remember every time I hear about vocal coach Mario Lanza missed. A donkey listened to a nightingale for a long time and was quite impressed. In the end he said: it was realy great but it should be even better when you have some study from our cock. ;)
+Simon Bam He in fact had several "proper" highly reputed vocal coaches, including retired soprano Irene Williams, noted repetiteur Leila Edwards who coached him for his operatic debut as Pinkerton with the New Orleans Opera Company in 1947 (& who later mentioned the speed with which he learned the role) his great baritone friend and mentor Robert Weede, Enrico Rosati who had taught Gigli, and Giacomo Spadoni, one of Caruso`s coaches. In the last period of his life, in Italy, he worked in tandem with two outstanding coaches, Annibale Bizzelli and Franco Zauli who was a coach with the Rome Opera House. The question then is rather - imagine what he could have done had he not allowed himself to become entangled in the deadly Hollywood machinery that deprived him for several years of the vital underpinning of constant coaching, and that so utterly undermined his self confidence and already fragile psyche... My own belief is that it would otherwise have been one of the great operatic tenor careers of the 1950`s/60`s.
Simon Bam , the great, great Lanza is present worldwide today, Google Suche Worldwide 2020. The great Del Monaco, Tucker, Schmidt, Tauber, di Stefano, Schock, Anders, Gigli, Björling, present in the homelands bot not worldwide.Mario Lanza the Great 👍 with the great Caruso on the Podest.
Absolutely was underrated - sometimes I think some experts have ears but not "heart". You have to listen to Lanza with your heart because he was singing to that really. Callas was too, and some knocked her.
I was listening to a Met performance the other day and the tenor got much applause, probably because he could force out a high note here and there, notes with "technique" to make it work written all over them
I like many singers but golly some that we pay today should listen to Lanza and then go back to square one.
Für mich war er der Weltbeste Tenor , da er alle Msikrichtungen singen konnte. Gott warum musste er so früh sterben !?
Suche noch immer einen Tenorstimme die so ähnlich ist. Er war göttlich! Er sang immer mit Herz und Seele ! Ich liebe dich ,wir werden uns Wiedersehen!
Very impressive.
Hi voice is so perfect for this Aria. He could have been a perfect Otello, had a lived a lot longer.
Pra mim o maior de todos, Voz perfeita e super Dramático, um cavalo árabe puro sangue, sem palavras pra avaliar essa voz poderosa que Deus lhe deu.
if I heard this in an opera house, I could not applaud - for I would be too busy weeping from hearing the voice of heaven itself
Mario Lanza-this scene from the movie Serenade was sublime but never was given the accolades it deserved and neither was his acting. In my opinion -maybe one day critics will finally acknowledge just how great he was. Unfortunately Mario thought this film could re-launch his career but instead the critics only picked on him for his appearance instead of his superb singing-what an injustice was done to this wonderful man. May he rest in well-deserved peace!
Hollywood ruined him.
I wish he quit Hollywood sooner. I think it's the reason he died at 38. Trying a procedure to lose weight
Somente MARIO cantava com tanta emoção. Sua magnífica voz é uma grande dádiva de Deus para nós que , neste dia de saudades quando faz 54 anos que ele nos deixou, estamos sentindo tanto sua falta. Que Deus o abençoe.
Magnificent! Mr. Lanza deserves much more recognition. 🎼🌟
OMG Magnifico! Thank you for sharing this greatness from handsome Maestro Mario!
STUPENDOUS voice!! Absolutely BORN to sing tenor arias.
... Марио Ланца очень органичен был на сцене, имея такой Шикарный голос: голос объёмный, красивый, широчайшего диапазона... в этом отрыве как великолепно он звучит(!), а ведь это репетиция... понятно, что есть сюжетная линия фильма и мы видим прекраснейшее выступление Певца... каждое выступление Марио Ланца "говорит" нам о его Большом даровании🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Самый красивый человеческий голос в мире, неповторимый , незабвенный!! Великий Марио Ланца!!
Stunning voice .
OMG...outstanding...everythig, vocal, expression, intensity, ...I wonder if in this life I'll witness this kind of verismo. Still waiting and hoping. ❤
voix sublime avec des aigus d'une parfaite justesse , une très bonne diction , une interprétation digne pour un opéra de verdi IL est parti trop tôt .
MARIO: sua voz magnífica é um presente de Deus.
Today, october 7, 55 years without you, MARIO my love. I know you are with God and singing to Him but I'm very sad because you are part of my life. Pray for me, dear.
Gigi Insulana beautifull Gigi.....i see Mario was everything for you.......yes 57 years whithout this giant amound us....his voice is miracle and he is God of tenor...........
Bravo Mario...
Gigi how old are you?
Mario Lanza The Most Brilliant Tenor Voice Ever!!
Only in your opinion,sure he was good,but best ever,not by a long shot,and surely not ahead of bjoerling,gedda,kraus,gigli,caruso,corelli,del monaco,di stefano,and many many more i could name
@@amantedellopera1681 Not Only in my opinion many opera stars said the same Mario Lanza the unique color in his voice the way he sang songs and opera with passion emotion en power was outstanding.For me and many many more people Mario Lanza is The Voice Of The 20th Century without any doubt.
@@31.01 he had a very nice voice,could sing opera but chose not too,the lure of hollywood was too strong.i dont know how he would have faired as an opera singer and we will never know,therefore you cant call him the greatest tenor ever,as he only once sang a full opera that being butterfly.
David, I agree with John completely, Mario had the most brilliant, expressive, versatile and most beautiful Tenor voice I have ever heard!
Yes! There was limited operatic stage experience but he had extensive concert experience. I really don’t know why people get so hung up on the lack of operatic stage experience.
John never said he was the greatest opera singer, he said he had the most brilliant Tenor voice, that’s subjective I know but I genuinely feel he does indeed have the most impressive and thrilling Tenor voice I have ever heard.
@@DiPlacido71 i think he said best tenor ever,thats is stretching it im afraid
Mario: great among the great! I was 16 years old in 1951 and became a fan of his and watched all his films - I remember the dear old experts and purists denigrated him as just a hollywood star who could sing a few arias - Thanks to him, opera had a revival that after six decades persists -Pavarotti, Domingo and many other stars recognize him as the inspiration of their vocations
.regards from Lima, Peru, Jul17, 2016
NO! I am what you might call him a 'Purist' and for me Lanza is much better than Domingo in many respects.
Lanza was truly one of the greats ! Pavarotti was an excellent tenor but not to the same level. Domingo was only good at the very beginning of his career though
@@abcdefgh-db1to Lanza had a better voice than either of them.
Great quality! Grazie mille!
MARIO: Sua voz magnífica, sua brilhante interpretação dessa ária demonstram quão grande você é: sublime bênção de Deus !
!! QUE INTERPRETACION EXTREMECEDORA, BRILLANTE Y DRAMATICA. ¿COMO NO AMARLO ?.. SI NOS DEJO , TANTA BELLEZA..GRACIAS QUERIDO MARIO.
БРАВО! БРАВО! БРАВО! 👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋
Das Maß aller Dinge für mich als Otello: Giovanni Martinelli und vor allem Mario del Monaco ( Ramon Vinay ist auch noch zu erwähnen)! Mario Lanza macht seine Sache hier ohne Zweifel sehr gut! Wo wäre dieser Tenor bei einer klassischen Opernkarriere gelandet, mit Sicherheit ganz, ganz weit oben!
La mejor voz del mundo
prova solo per un film, purtroppo!!!!!! voce e interpretazione del disperato Otello magnifiche e che mi stupiscono poichè questo brano non lo avevo ancora sentito
If asked which song best showcases Mario Lanza's extraordinary gift, it would be impossible to choose just one, but this one would certainly be included in the list.
I love this scene one of Lanzas best interpretations also I think Serenade his best Movie his acting was great why he was attacked by arsehole critics who can only be envious of his talent is beyond me
He was and is a LEGEND ask any TENOR and they will bow down there heads in admiration
nicely put :) I've been a fan since I was a teenager :)
I love Mario's interpretation in this rehearsal scene. He is fantastic and would have made a tremendous Othello on stage. Thank you so much for sharing this with us, Vince. I would have greatly loved seeing him do the opera. Hugs, Kat 😏
Have you heard the Otello duets with Licia Albanese from the same film? They are magnificent.
How sad he died at 38. Had he gone on to sing Otello he might have been one of the great Otello's of the 1960s
Marii Lanza studied for more than 2 years with Maestro Rosatti, and 5 months with melocchi.... What do you think he learned with all those teachers??? To sell lemonade? No sir... He learned to sing OPERA... Whoever says he was a product of Hollywood just dont understand what opera preparatuon is about.... Mario Lanza other than studying with melocchi and rosatti had an amazing color of voice... Even without tecnique he would've been the tenor with the most Beautiful voice.
MARIO LANZA - GREAT OPERA SINGER
Это точно!
Потрясающий Ланца - Отелло!!! А ведь всего лишь репетиция.....
💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
WOOOOOOW
So much better than Kaufmann.
That wouldnt be too difficult
@@amantedellopera1681 Very true.
My Father is like song.....!
He sings this WAY better than Domingo ever did.
... согласна с Вами на 100 процентов...
I have listened to many recordings of this aria, including those of the 'famous' Otellos, and Lanza stands with the best.
@@edwardkerrigan5356 He does! His death (before his planned return to opera in Rome in I Pagliacci) was utterly tragic.
🤡🤡🤡🤡
You should listen to Placido singing Othello then. You obviously havent
@@nilescrane4965 I have, and his Otello sucks
Corelli y Del Monaco inmensos Mario ! Colosal.!
Caro amigo: Concordo plenamente com você. Mario é, realmente, colossal, maravilhoso e em todos os momentos sua emoção estava presente. Obrigada por sua opinião sobre o maior tenor de todos os tempos: MARIO LANZA.
Ottima interpretazione che sento per la prima volta. Bravo, ma Otello è un'altra cosa, non fa per lui. Comunque bravo.
Lanza
Отелло там нет. От слова совсем.
3:57 That guys ain'ta baritone lol. Lanza sounds more baritonal.
@Dark Voice He is a spinto, Bari tonal qualities
The standard for this aria is Jon Vickers in my humble opinion. Lanza is certainly very good. So difficult to judge a singer who has not performed the role on stage. At his best he was very good and has obviously left an amazing legacy. Anyone who says he was untrained is plain wrong. There is no way a singer could accomplish what Lanza did without a very solid technique which he had in spades!
I have listened to the recording of this by most of the greats, and in my opinion Lanza is up with the best of them.
Anyone who says he was 'untrained' is completely ignorant - his traing spanned over ten years before he began his concert career;
Vocalità poco adatta a questo capolavoro.
il vecchio
Nunca debió cantar esta aria. No era para él. No es creíble su personaje. Otello no requiere voces bonitas sino desgarradas, oscuras, muy varoniles.
He was not an opera singer. In fact he never sang a complete opera on stage in his entire life.
he sang Madama Butterfly on stage
As well as three performances in Butterfly in New Orleans, he previously sang Fenton (to great acclaim by the national music critics who attended the festival) in 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' at the Berkshire Music Festival, on his graduation from his opera course at the Berkshire School of Music, Tanglewood, Mass. He was given a free scholarship to Berkshire, by it's director, the conductor Serge Koussevitsky, who heard Lanza sing when on a conducting engagement in Philadelphia, where Lanza lived. He said at the time that 'A voice like this comes along only once in a hundred years'. Lanza's budding career, which was always directed at the operatic stage, was put on hold immediately on his return home from Tanglewood, by his call up into the military, where he spent the next three years, returning to civilian life in 1945. He then resumed his training in New York, eventually spending sixteen months studying with Enrico Rosati, who was the vocal coach and teacher to many greats, among them Beniamino Gigli. Like Koussevitsky, he also was amazed by Lanza's voice and is quoted as saying 'I have waited twenty-three years for this voice'. So, yes, he lacked the on-stage operatic experience, but he had a very extensive concert career both prior to going into films and beyond , and his amazing instinctive feeling for the music he recorded, much of the time resulted in performances which stood up very well to comparison with those of singers who had stage experience. The consensus, if assessed without prejudice, has to be, that the direction he finally took deprived the opera world of what could have been one of it's greatest tenors.
*Roman Branc* You`re very poorly informed. I suggest you read Edward Kerrigan`s response to you, to which I would add that Lanza was indeed a formally trained opera singer and rightly always regarded himself as such. Enrico Rosati was not his only noted vocal coach; another was the distinguished repetiteur Leila Edwards who coached him for the Role of Pinkerton with the New Orleans Opera Company in 1948, and was later to remark on how quickly he picked up the role. Yet another was the fine veteran baritone and Lanza`s colleague and friend, Robert Weede. Yet another still, was Caruso`s coach, Giacomo Spadoni, and in the final period of Lanza`s life, in Italy, he had two distinguished coaches, Annibale Bizelli - a coach from the Rome Opera - and Franco Zauli. To the list of Lanza`s operatic appearances mentioned by Mr Kerrigan, I would add that in 1940, then 20, he joined the former Rome Opera tenor Rodolpho Pili`s 'Grand Opera Company', performing in several opera`s under Pili`s direction at venues around Philadelphia. An example is 'Crispino e la Comare', an 1850 work by Frederico and and Luigi Ricci in which Lanza performed the lead tenor role - to "huge success" according to writer and critic Marion Benasutti.
You`ve heard and seen here what many would regard as one of the finest interpretations of this aria extant - superbly, excitingly and so convincingly sung, marvelously enacted, and yet you say "He was not an opera singer". Apparently you`re quite unable to allow yourself to hear through your very obvious dismissive prejudice.
Lanza knew personally many of the established opera singers of his time (including Bjorling, Tucker, Albanese, Tebaldi to name a few), who all admired him and so wanted him to join them at the Met and the other great opera houses. Here`s the abbreviated assessment of Lanzas` voice by some of them. Di Stefano "... I don`t think he realised how good he was..." Dorothy Kirsten "...Mario could have sung in any opera house in the world, and his career could have been sensational..." Tebaldi "...Lanza has the finest natural tenor voice I`ve ever heard..." George London..." In my opinion, Lanza, with the possible exception of Bjorling, had the greatest voice of his time... his singing could move people to tears and, in my presence, frequently did. I would venture that if he had not gone to Hollywood he would have had a major operatic career..." Franco Correlli "...Mario Lanza`s singing was both convincing and full of heart..." Maria Callas..."My biggest regret is not having had the opportunity to sing with the greatest tenor voice I`ve ever heard..." And finally, conductor Richard Bonynge, with Joan Sutherland, speaking of attending Lanza`s first Albert Hall concert in London in 1957...." We were both surprised by the size of the voice - we were also impressed by Lanza`s innate musicality. No doubt he could have had an outstanding operatic career..."
@@toff358 I have never mentioned anything related to the voice and quality of his singing. I just said that he was not an opera singer. Which I sustain. Opera is not only singing, it is performance and interpretation throughout 2 or more hours on stage. Unfortunately the only record of Lanza we have, are recitals and movie clips. In my opinion, that's not enough to say that he was an opera singer. Anyway I understand and respect your position.
@@rb020969 You also said "In fact he never sang a complete opera on stage in his entire life." That is demonstrably incorrect and I corrected you. We do in fact have some written "record" of critical reaction - that of critical reaction to his performances with the New Orleans Opera company, which are uniformly highly flattering, although of course 'Madama Butterfly' is Butterfly`s opera, not Pinkerton`s. No opera singer is ever on stage continuously and relentlessly "throughout two or more hours" - as with actors in the theatre, and depending on the opera, they typically spend some time off stage in the wings before being required to go on stage once more. Lanza trained assiduously as an opera singer with the distinguished coaches I`ve mentioned. He performed on the operatic stage, albeit sadly all too infrequently and briefly (mostly his own fault), his concerts from first to last always included a large component of arias, as of course did his films and studio recordings. He was then, surely by any non opera snob definition, an opera singer.
Imagine what he could have done with a proper vocal coach....
Simon Bam Thank god no such 'proper vocal coach' got his hands on him to ruin his perfect voice.
Simon Bam There's a Russian fable that I remember every time I hear about vocal coach Mario Lanza missed. A donkey listened to a nightingale for a long time and was quite impressed. In the end he said: it was realy great but it should be even better when you have some study from our cock. ;)
+Simon Bam He in fact had several "proper" highly reputed vocal coaches, including retired soprano Irene Williams, noted repetiteur Leila Edwards who coached him for his operatic debut as Pinkerton with the New Orleans Opera Company in 1947 (& who later mentioned the speed with which he learned the role) his great baritone friend and mentor Robert Weede, Enrico Rosati who had taught Gigli, and Giacomo Spadoni, one of Caruso`s coaches. In the last period of his life, in Italy, he worked in tandem with two outstanding coaches, Annibale Bizzelli and Franco Zauli who was a coach with the Rome Opera House. The question then is rather - imagine what he could have done had he not allowed himself to become entangled in the deadly Hollywood machinery that deprived him for several years of the vital underpinning of constant coaching, and that so utterly undermined his self confidence and already fragile psyche... My own belief is that it would otherwise have been one of the great operatic tenor careers of the 1950`s/60`s.
Someone needs a proper education. He had years of training and it is demonstrated.
Simon Bam , the great, great Lanza is present worldwide today, Google Suche Worldwide 2020. The great Del Monaco, Tucker, Schmidt, Tauber, di Stefano, Schock, Anders, Gigli, Björling, present in the homelands bot not worldwide.Mario Lanza the Great 👍 with the great Caruso on the Podest.
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“Serenade” Warner Brothers 1956.