On March 24, 1947, the Elks Club in Allentown filled with a voice so rare, Frank Sinatra once suggested protecting it with a bird cage. Operetta and opera blossomed from a 26-year-old tenor with the ...

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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.

A half-century after his untimely death at the age of 38, celebrated tenor and movie star Mario Lanza is receiving fresh medical attention from a Baltimore doctor who takes a dim view of one of the ...

Local soprano, Tara Kelsey will be presenting an evening of his music entitled, “The Loveliest Night of the Year – A Tribute to Mario Lanza” at The Mill Theatre, Dormston Centre in Sedgley on August ...

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 ...

Everything about Mario Lanza was enormous: his talent, his prowess on stage, his ego, his lifestyle, and, often, his weight. Born in 1921, a stone's throw from the pasta and cheese wholesalers of the ...