The Great Caruso

The Great Caruso

Infobox Film
name = The Great Caruso


caption = Original film poster
director = Richard Thorpe
producer = Joe Pasternak
Jesse L. Lasky
writer = Sonya Levien
William Ludwig
starring = Mario Lanza
Ann Blyth
Dorothy Kirsten
Carl Benton Reid
original music = Johnny Green
music = Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Ruggiero Leoncavallo, etc.
cinematography = Joseph Ruttenberg
editing = Gene Ruggiero
distributor = MGM
released = flagicon|USA 16 April 1951
runtime = 109 min
country = U.S.
awards =
language = English
budget =
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imdb_id = 0043599

"The Great Caruso" is a 1951 biographical film made by MGM. It was directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Joe Pasternak with Jesse L. Lasky as associate producer from a screenplay by Sonya Levien and William Ludwig. The original music was by Johnny Green and the cinematography by Joseph Ruttenberg. Costume design was by Helen Rose and Gile Steele.

The film is a highly fictionalized biography of the life of tenor Enrico Caruso and stars Mario Lanza as Caruso and Ann Blyth as his wife Dorothy, with Richard Hageman, Carl Benton Reid, Eduard Franz and Ludwig Donath. It also features a large number of Metropolitan Opera stars, notably the soprano Dorothy Kirsten and Jarmila Novotna, Blanche Thebom, Teresa Celli, Nicola Moscona, Giuseppe Valdengo, Lucine Amara and Marina Koshetz.

Reaction

"The Great Caruso" was an enormous commercial success — largely on the strength of its star Mario Lanza's performance. "Newsweek" wrote that, "Lanza brings to the role not only a fine, natural and remarkably powerful voice, but a physique and personal mannerisms reminiscent of the immortal Caruso."

The film has also been cited by tenors Plácido Domingo and José Carreras as having been an inspiration for them when they were growing up.

Nearly 40 years later, Caruso's own son, Enrico Jr. reminisced that, "Vocally and musically "The Great Caruso" is a thrilling motion picture, and it has helped many young people discover opera and even become singers themselves." He added that, "I can think of no other tenor, before or since Mario Lanza, who could have risen with comparable success to the challenge of playing Caruso in a screen biography."

References

*Caruso, Enrico Jr. and Farkas, Andrew. "Enrico Caruso: My Father and My Family". (New York: Amadeus 1990)
*Cesari, Armando. "Mario Lanza: An American Tragedy" (Fort Worth: Baskerville 2004)

External links

*imdb title|id=0043599|title=The Great Caruso


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