Elsewhere in Tuesday’s paper you can find my humble little story about renewed interest in the untimely death at 38 of tenor Mario Lanza, the huge — no pun intended — movie star of the 1950s. I didn’t ...

Mario Lanza, singer and actor, died Oct. 7 in a hospital in Rome. He was 38. Lanza, a Philadelphia native, made his operatic debut at Tanglewood in the “The Merry Wives of Windsor” in 1942. He would ...

Lanza couldn’t read music, and only took part in a handful of opera productions, but he was the first opera singer to have earned gold records, his versions of Puccini arias selling by the millions.

Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! “MARIO WOULD HAVE BEEN 89 THIS YEAR,” says Jeanette Frese, the treasurer and volunteer ...

This year marks the 95th anniversary of the “Sunny Kid from Philadelphia", by the legendary Mario Lanza. As one of the most beloved singers of all time, his repertoire includes over 800 arias and ...

operatic arias. Aretha Franklin struggles through Puccini’s “Nessun Dorma” at the Grammy Awards. The Three Tenors are && almost as popular as Elvis. Opera is no longer longhair (or blue hair) music.

There is an undeniable resemblance in the face. There was also, to hear the comments from the crowd at a Prospect Heights restaurant, something about the voice, too. After the singer had made a few ...

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