For a Waukegan electronics engineer with an unusual voice, life has begun to play like an old Mario Lanza movie, but whether the title should be ”Son of Student Prince” or ”The Great Pretender” ...

Hailed by KUSC Los Angeles as the "next great tenor", the protege of legendary tenor Jerry Hadley has impressively shown his flexibility as a performing artist of multiple genres by offering ...

(See 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 ...

Heigh Ho, dear lovely rainbow tribe, Bobby Patrick, your rainbow reviewer is back in CD-Land to offer another broken-down breakdown of a new music release. So, strap in and get ready, as Bobby goes on ...

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 ...

Mezzo soprano Tara Marisa Kelsey and Italian tenor Simone Francesco Liconti Now a professional singer, she grew up listening to his recordings with her family including her late father Frederick. She ...

In 1921, Mario Lanza was born in an unassuming, two-floor row home at 636 Christian St.. The son of Italian immigrants, he would go on to become an international superstar as an opera singer and actor ...

The cracks were already beginning to show, though: Lanza’s huge appetites and ballooning weight were beginning to be a concern, and director Curtis Bernhardt laughably disapproved of the “excess ...

'Mario Lanza: The Best of Everything,' on the life and career of the legendary tenor, will air in the U.S. in November. By Scott Roxborough Producer/distributor FilmRise has sold opera documentary ...

BALTIMORE, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Tenor Mario Lanza, who died at 38, likely damaged his health with radical weight-loss therapies, said a Maryland doctor who investigates notable deaths. Lanza, who was 5 ...

Terry Robinson, a bodybuilding denizen of Muscle Beach in the late 1940s who became a fitness trainer for Hollywood stars such as Clark Gable and Mario Lanza, died May 19 at his home in West Los ...