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Author : Armando Cesari
Release : 2004
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 669/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mario Lanza by : Armando Cesari
Download or read book Mario Lanza written by Armando Cesari. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lanza's career and personal life are examined with great sensitivity and the authority of more than twenty years of research with the full cooperation of Lanza's family.
Author : Derek Mannering
Release : 2015-02-12
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 251/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mario Lanza by : Derek Mannering
Download or read book Mario Lanza written by Derek Mannering. This book was released on 2015-02-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blessed with one of the great tenor voices of all time, Mario Lanza (1921-1959) rose to spectacular heights in a film, recording, and concert career that spanned little more than a decade. Groomed at the outset for a career on the opera stage, Lanza instead flourished in Hollywood where his films, most notably The Great Caruso, broke box-office records the world over and influenced the careers of countless musicians. To this day, the Three Tenors cite him as an inspiration for their own careers on the classical stage. Lanza's recordings for RCA sold in the millions, and he remains the crossover artist supreme. But his tremendous success was derailed by his self-destructive lifestyle, and by age thirty-eight he was dead, with his extraordinary promise left unfulfilled. Newly revised and updated for its first U.S. edition, Mario Lanza: Singing to the Gods is the definitive account of the remarkable life and times of one of the twentieth century's most beloved singing stars. This richly detailed work also contains a selection of rare photographs, several of which are drawn from Lanza's estate. With the support of Lanza's daughter, Ellisa Lanza Bregman, the tenor's colleagues, and his closest friend, Terry Robinson, Derek Mannering has chronicled a fascinating and unforgettable life. From the fabulous successes of the early MGM years through the disastrous walkouts and cancellations that sent Lanza's career into freefall, Mannering objectively and movingly reveals the story of a great star torn apart by his own troubled psyche and undisciplined lifestyle.
Author : Roland L. Bessette
Release : 1999
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 448/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mario Lanza by : Roland L. Bessette
Download or read book Mario Lanza written by Roland L. Bessette. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life and career of the opera singer from his childhood, his recording and concert career, and his movie stardom, to his untimely death at the age of thirty-eight
Author : David Bret
Release : 2014-02-21
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 44X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mario Lanza by : David Bret
Download or read book Mario Lanza written by David Bret. This book was released on 2014-02-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Callas called him the greatest tenor who ever lived. Vocally and technically, Mario Lanza was a genius. Like Callas, Lanza's was a phenomenal talent complimented by a more than monstrous ego. Suffering from what would today be diagnosed as bi-polar disorder, he lived virtually his whole life with his finger firmly pressed on the self-destruct button. Too undisciplined to remain in opera, Lanza found himself sucked into the Hollywood whirlpool, engulfed by the opulent lifestyle this offered: easy money, good living, and limitless food, sex and drugs, to which he became increasingly addicted. Lanza took his frustration out of others, frequently launching an uncontrollable temper on those around him and earning himself a reputation as one of the movie stars who were most disliked by their peers in the studio system years. Lanza's scatological pranks were as legendary as his drinking, womanising and gorging sprees, each one followed by crash diets and periods of dark depression and self-loathing which made him virtually impossible to control. Yet he produced arguably the finest tenor recordings of popular music and opera of the last century as well as some classic films, including The Great Caruso and Serenade. In Sublime Serenade, David Bret uncompromisingly but lovingly, and in his unique and celebrated style, tells the Lanza story, from his birth in a poor district of Philadelphia, to his death in Rome 38 years later and his involvement with the Mafia. A must for all music and movie fans alike. David Bret was born in Paris and is a leading celebrity biographer. His many acclaimed books include biographies of Edith Piaf, Doris Day, Clark Gable and Joan Crawford. He lives in Yorkshire.
Author : Lindsay Perigo
Release : 2016-06-18
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Book Rating : 149/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The One Tenor: a Salute to Mario Lanza by : Lindsay Perigo
Download or read book The One Tenor: a Salute to Mario Lanza written by Lindsay Perigo. This book was released on 2016-06-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated in May, 2016 and available in hard copy for the first time, The One Tenor is a labor of love for life-long Mario Lanza devotee, New Zealand radio and television broadcaster Lindsay Perigo. It's the bringing together of his best Lanza-related essays, critiques and interviews over the years, with significant new material exclusive to this book, including Perigo's take on the theory that Mario Lanza suffered from Bipolar Disorder. This theory was first touted in the biography of Lanza by Roland Bessette, with little explication. In The One Tenor Perigo interviews Bessette, who elaborates on his theory for the first time. Perigo responds with a theory of his own in his stellar chapter, "Mario's Magic Madness." The author stresses in his Preface that The One Tenor is not a biography, but a chance to glimpse the overpoweringly charismatic Mario of screen and record. It is an informed, loving but critical celebration of the tenor of whom Dame Kiri Te Kanawa says flatly, "No one has ever been able to replace him. Ever in a million years." As current tenor superstar Joseph Calleja, himself inspired by Lanza to become a singer, observes in a new Foreword for this edition, Mario Lanza was "a man and voice for the ages." Savor this historic musical phenomenon through the pages of The One Tenor!
