Mario Lanza: The American Caruso

    Mario Lanza: The American Caruso
    1983

    Synopsis

    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.

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      Cast

      • Plácido DomingoNarrator
      • Zsa Zsa GaborSelf
      • Kathryn GraysonSelf
      • Dorothy KirstenSelf
      • Gisele MacKenzieSelf
      • Joe PasternakSelf
      • Terry RobinsonSelf
      • Mario LanzaSelf (archive footage)
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