Mario Lanza: Tenor in Exile

Roland L Bessette
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
9781574670448
1-57467-044-1

Almost forty years after his premature death, the mystique of Mario Lanza continues. He remains a legendary figure, a crossover icon embraced and remembered by an entire generation for bridging the gap.

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between popular and classical music. The acknowledged inspiration of today's Three Tenors, Lanza introduced the operatic and Neapolitan repertoire to a wide and adoring audience, with--as Jos Carreras put it--a "glorious, ringing tenor, that . . . was his and his alone."