Mario Lanza: The American Caruso

Mario Lanza: The American Caruso

90 mins | Documentary, TV Movie | Jan. 1, 1983

Plácido Domingo hosts this tribute to American tenor Mario Lanza. Interviews, rare footage and vintage recordings chronicle Lanza's life from his Philadelphia childhood to his meteoric rise as an opera singer and film actor and his tragic death. Credited with bringing opera and classical music into the home of everyday Americans, Lanza starred in That Midnight Kiss and The Toast of New Orleans and portrayed Enrico Caruso in The Great Caruso.

Mario Lanza: The American Caruso

90 mins | Documentary, TV Movie | Jan. 1, 1983

Mario Lanza: The American Caruso
Plácido Domingo hosts this tribute to American tenor Mario Lanza. Interviews, rare footage and vintage recordings chronicle Lanza's life from his Philadelphia childhood to his meteoric rise as an opera singer and film actor and his tragic death. Credited with bringing opera and classical music into the home of everyday Americans, Lanza starred in That Midnight Kiss and The Toast of New Orleans and portrayed Enrico Caruso in The Great Caruso.
Producers
Original title Mario Lanza: The American Caruso
Directors John Musilli
Writers

Cast

Plácido Domingo

as Narrator

Zsa Zsa Gabor

as Self

Kathryn Grayson

as Self

Dorothy Kirsten

as Self

Joe Pasternak

as Self

Terry Robinson

as Self

Mario Lanza

as Self (archive footage)