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.

Cast

Plácido Domingo Narrator Zsa Zsa Gabor Self Kathryn Grayson Self Dorothy Kirsten Self

Gisele MacKenzie Self

Joe Pasternak Self

Terry Robinson Self

Mario Lanza Self (archive footage)

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