Description
Mario Lanza: Live At The Hollywood Bowl - Historical Recordings (1947 & 1951) / Gala Audio CD Stereo 1991 / GL 311
UPC 8712177008179
Mario Lanza Live at the Hollywood Bowl: Historical Recordings (1947 & 1951) is a 2000 CD, released by the Gala label (GL 311), includes the six selections that tenor Mario Lanza sang at his first Hollywood Bowl concert on August 27, 1947. This is the performance that first brought Lanza to the attention of Hollywood, and shortly afterwards he was signed to a seven-year film contract with MGM. Included from the performance at the Bowl are six arias, three of them in duet with soprano Frances Yeend. Eugene Ormandy conducts the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra for these performances.
Reviewing the concert in the Los Angeles Examiner, Ernest Lonsdale wrote that, "Mario Lanza could have taken the Bowl with him. [His] voice is rich, full, warm and ringing. He has expression, emotion and good pronunciation. His operatic potentialities, if he works hard for a few more years, are unmistakably great."
In addition to the six classical selections from the Bowl, this album included fourteen recordings from The Mario Lanza Show radio broadcasts. These songs were introduced by Mario Lanza and his regular announcer, Bill Baldwin. They include three Neapolitan songs, his million-selling hits, several of his evergreen popular songs, and the aria "O paradiso". Ray Sinatra served as conductor on these radio broadcasts taped between June and September 1951.
| Label: | Gala – GL 311 |
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| Format: |
CD, Compilation
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| Country: | Portugal |
| Released: |
1991 |
| Genre: | Pop, Classical, Stage & Screen |
| Style: | Opera, Romantic, Ballad, Contemporary |
Tracklist:
| Gaetano Donizetti | L'elisir D'amore | ||
| 1 | – | Una Furtiva Lagrima | 4:57 |
|
Umberto Giordano |
Andrea Chenier |
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| 2 | – | Un Dì All'azzurro Spazio | 4:45 |
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Giacomo Puccini |
Tosca |
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| 3 | – | E Lucevan Le Stelle | 3:17 |
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Giuseppe Verdi |
La Traviata |
| 4 | – | Parigi, O Cara | 5:25 |
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Giacomo Puccini |
Madama Butterfly |
| 5 | – | Vogliatemi Bene, Un Bene Piccolino | 6:56 |
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Giacomo Puccini |
La Bohème |
| 6 | – | O Soave Fanciulla | 4:04 |
| 7 | Luigi Denza & Peppino Turco*– | Funiculi Funicula | 2:30 |
| 8 | Malcolm Beelby & Gerda Beilenson– | My Song My Love | 3:45 |
| 9 | Erno Rapee & Lew Pollack– | Diane | 3:33 |
| 10 | Victor Herbert– | Thine Alone | 3:06 |
| 11 | Francesco Paolo Tosti– | A Vuchella | 2:59 |
| 12 | Enrico Toselli– | Toselli's Serenade | 3:59 |
| 13 | Nicholas Brodszky & Sammy Cahn– | Because You're Mine | 2:31 |
| 14 | Paul Francis Webster, Irving Aaronson & Juventino Rosas– | The Loveliest Night Of The Year | 3:25 |
| 15 | Giacomo Meyerbeer– | O Paradiso, from L´Africaine | 3:36 |
| 16 | Ethelbert Nevin– | The Rosary | 2:53 |
| 17 | Tolchard Evans, Robert Hargreaves & Stanley Damerell– | If (They Made Me A King) | 3:28 |
| 18 | Jerome Kern & Herbert Reynolds– | They Didn't Believe Me | 4:57 |
| 19 | Albert Hay Malotte– | The Lords Prayer | 3:35 |
| 20 | Nicholas Brodszky & Sammy Cahn– | Be My Love | 3:05 |
- Composed By – Gaetano Donizetti, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, Umberto Giordano
- Conductor – Eugene Ormandy (tracks: 1–6)
- Orchestra – The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra (tracks: 1–6), The Ray Sinatra Orchestra (tracks: 7–20)
