Was his voice better than whomever - who cares - I have always enjoyed Mario and the others who sing in the same style - I could also take time to compare an Orange to an Apple, but why - enjoy the sweet nectar of each - Bravisimo!
I've heard this sung by all the great tenors living and dead and in my humble opinion, Mario's version is the most heartfelt and passionate. Altho not the best trained voice, Mario's version reaches the heart and touches the soul. Others hit the notes but Mario hits the HEART. The poet e e cummings said it best when he wrote
" when feeling is foremost...he who pays attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you"
I believe this is the recording that is playing in the background while Sam Waterston watches a documentary on Nixon and the Viet Nam war in the 1982 film "The Killing Fields". For my money this is the definitive version. The raw emotion sells it.
What grips me about Mario Lanza's performance here is the emotion behind it. Nessun Dorma is a beautiful piece, and when sung with emotion the way Mario Lanza does it, it's taken to a new level.
He's the best - I've even compared him to recording of Caruso and I love Lanza more... My grandmother loved him and I always thought it was because he was from Philly. Now I know where I got my ear.
I am usually banned from making comments about this man. I have tried over and over again to find something in his singing that warrents all the accolades heaped on this singer. He had a very successful career, i understand, but I simply can t stand to listen to him. His singing is so affected with over the top shmalz. And placing him in the same category as Gigli or bjoerling or any of the great tenors, to me is absurd. This probably will not post.. Lanza fans are usually very touchy,
@operalament I am with you 100%, apart from a powerful instrument his musicianship is lacking; some scooping, thin tone at times, and very commercial sounding. To compare this to version to Bjorling's is sacrilege.
Youtube "nowhere men" don’t really count, but a few influential critics thought this: “truly great natural tenor voice of the past century" Placido Domingo "Caruso’s successor." – Callas "voice of enormous dramatic impact." – Domingo "His magnificent voice inspired a generation of tenors" - Carreras "a fantastic voice--not just wonderful--a fantastic voice." - Pavarotti “greatest voice ever bestowed on a human being" - London finally, "Lanza possessed the voice of the century" Corelli
@operalament Most people probs did not answer you because you said they would jump on you and they didnt want to prove you right. I will. You're an ass.
@operalament Why should anyone be banned? We have a right to express our opinion. So I will express mine. Luciano Pavarotti is the greatest singer of this "century."
Domingo is close behind. However Domingo had to STRAIN to hit high C. Pav did not have to strain. His total ease and his tone is far superior than others. He had a massive chest area..and that is what projected the incredible tone.
@HeatherGlen33 Pav. was a great tenor.But,Caruso,Gigli,Lauri Volpi,De Muro,Merli,Masini,Corelli, DiStefano,Barioni,Fillipeschi,Bjorling,Campagnano,Pertile,Zenatello,Del Monaco,Martinelli,Cortis,Keipura to name a few were all better than Domingo.
In response to Lanza not having had the best of moral values. In Hollywood one would've been hard pressed to find much if any high moral standards. It was a cutthroat business even in it's infancy. Lanza was a normal man in that temptations took over him. Yes he screwed up but toward the end of his short life, as he matured, I think that he reflected upon his indiscretions in light of his wife and children. None the less he was a flesh and blood human being....
I grew up listening to Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Patsy Cline and so forth. Later on it was The Beatles, Barbara Streisand, Ed Ames, Tony Bennett, etc. All unique and talented. Mario Lanza was a giant! Not so much for his acting abilities as for his God given voice and the ability to interpret a song with a richness, beauty and emotional content that few if any could and can execute. Bravo Lanza!!! Thank God for the recordings!!!
@conlagrime Anyone who saw Lanza as a giant ..was never exposed to many years of listening to opera, and attending opera, so as to be able to distinguish what was truely beautiful. Caruso did not have the technology of the microphone that we have now. As I listened..he sounded weak. Gili was excellent. Lanza rolled his "r's" which signifies, an American trying to use Italian. This brings us back to Pav..the King of Opera.
@HeatherGlen33Yes,the old recordings are not good,But many astute listeners have had the ear to understand the transmission of the older recordings&realize that Caruso's sound was not weak.Corelli also rolled his R's& he was Italian.This brings us to PAV.. as you say{ the king of opera} I thought he was an excellent lyric tenor,But you negect to mention his compulsive eating&WOMANIZING.Does this not bother you because he is your favorite?Herbert Breslin,Pavs Agent wrote a book callThe King& I
No wonder almost all great tenors, say that Mario Lanza was their inspiration. Even the new star of the Opera Houses around the World, the Maltese Tenor Joseph Calleja who is only 31 yrs old, said that Mario Lanza influenced him to become what he has become today.
Let me explain. YOUR basic SUN sign is CHARACTER. Standards traits. Time stands still in the heavens, the moment of BIRTH . the sky is a giant CLOCK SAME natal Clock that the Navy uses to guide Travel on the ocean. Where the MOON is located In the stars determines YOUR TRUE heart, hidden to most. This Depth, you see in Mario, is SCORPIO as the MOON at his birth was in CONJUCTION to it. BEAUTIFUL gift.
Maybe that's why I (and many others) hear his magnificent voice as we do and wonder why some other people don't seem to get it. What a rare gift he was to all of us. We were blessed not only to hear his voice but to continue (by technology) to hear it even after he has returned home. Let me also say this. He was a good man of the highest values.
As I stated, I am a tremendous fan of Lanza, he was one of the influences along with Caruso, Gigli and others which made me pursue a singing career. I was merely pointing out that the poster was erroneous in stating that the man possessed "the highest values". I'm not criticizing Lanza, I am merely stating a fact. He was a flawed human being, as are most of us, but I respect his talent immensely.
@eblackadder3 Watch me get banned now..Lanza sat in his living room with a reporter and discussed how he got Lana Turner, Betty Grable, Gene Tierney, and others in bed, and laughed about it while his wife and 5 children were in the home.He was discusting as a human being. Yes it was in papers and magazines. His death was not a natural one. He had dealings with the Mafia. Our belief was homicide.
@HeatherGlen33 Lanza only had 4 children.I never saw this story documented before about Turner,Grable& Tierney.There is no proof that Lanza had dealings with the Mafia,But his death was very suspicious.I don't doubt that Lanza had his problems with wine ,women&song,However,I hope your statement about Lanza sitting down in living room with the reporter is more accurate than the rest of the information you stated here.
@dimare3 Again.. Lanza had a beautiful voice. Did you ever sit in the seat of an opera house, listening time and time again for over 50 years? You MUST have this experience to identify who is the best this century had to offer...sheesh.
.. continued from below. This is why your heart welts-up, because He consumes & extracts all within him , What is there, is the ULTIMATE Pain/Passion/Love/longing.... Born Aquarius(a head of hie time) HIS internal Heart is a SCORPIO. DEEP, and sorrowful ae the emotions you se coming forth, His SHELL/Aquarius--His emotion BURST in a shockwave of Passionate SCORPIO, No other FEELS as Much as a SCORPIO MOON sign, gift at birth.
What makes some STAND OUT, from the REST? it's always " EMOTION". Soem can PRETEND emotion(ACT) others have it. WHY, What makes this in some & others not? Many wonderful singers in Opera out there., what makes Mario Lanza so compelling? ...... THIS......is why... NEXT comment.......
M.Lanza è per me come un"FIGLIO".Quel viso da eterno giovanotto mi fa sentire verso di LUI molto "affetto e RISPETTO ".La sua"VOCE POTENTE ARMONICA BRILLANTE e NATURALE" è"AFFASCINANTE".Nel 1979 (a 26 anni) ho dipinto il volto di una DONNA con le labbra"serrate "e gli occhi che"non ti guardano"quella mancanza di"dialogo" che avevo con le donne era espresso così intensamente che ho"ferito" quel volto con delle violente pennellate.Ho vissuto sensazioni come lui esprime"graffiando" quel volto!
Mario's voice touches the deepest parts of my heart. I remember him on Tv when I was a child. He has such a pure voice. I could listen to him all day. I am so happy to see him her and so many other fans of Mario.
Mario Lanza is my mother's idol. She is his number one fan even up to now. She requested me last year to buy her an album of Mario Lanza. I bought it in EBay and sent it to her and she was like a teenage girl again listening to it day and night. I bought her a walkman but she doesnt like it she wants to play it loud. :)
there is no better voice then mario lanza the world is missing alot without him in it thank god we are still abble to lissen to his music an enjoy his songs
Mario lanza in my opion had one of the best voices ever, better than Pavarotti if you listen really close Idspow in very song you can hear his pruncation in every song you just need to thake the cotton out of your ears word
caruso was 1st opera singer to sell 1,000,000 records-vesti la giubba-mario played caruso in 1951 movie-caruso had a powerful voice but mario fans feel mario had the more beautiful voice-during ww1 caruso sang songs for the war bond drive some in english-to a lot of people he sounded like the Kaiser!-i'm a 1950 brat and loved 48-50's music-GREAT CARUSO was 1st opera movie i ever saw-what a come down when i heard the real Caruso sing-say what u want Mario had the most beautiful voice ever!
Was his voice better than whomever - who cares - I have always enjoyed Mario and the others who sing in the same style - I could also take time to compare an Orange to an Apple, but why - enjoy the sweet nectar of each - Bravisimo!
Shodansixtyone 1 week ago
I LOVED MARIO LANZA SINCE I WAS A YOUNG BOY GREATEST VOICE EVER!!!! TONY ODDO
TONYODDO922 1 week ago
The Best ever...beautiful voice...Charisma...Immortality..
zakstone123 2 weeks ago
Mario Lanza?????????
E chi ni é!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
corradoerdas 1 month ago
I've heard this sung by all the great tenors living and dead and in my humble opinion, Mario's version is the most heartfelt and passionate. Altho not the best trained voice, Mario's version reaches the heart and touches the soul. Others hit the notes but Mario hits the HEART. The poet e e cummings said it best when he wrote
" when feeling is foremost...he who pays attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you"
Al
BUKCOLLECTOR 1 month ago
Just beautiful...
NiceIsFree 1 month ago
One of the best versions ever, if you ask me.
RudySunseeker 5 months ago 2
I believe this is the recording that is playing in the background while Sam Waterston watches a documentary on Nixon and the Viet Nam war in the 1982 film "The Killing Fields". For my money this is the definitive version. The raw emotion sells it.
homelessengineer 7 months ago
What grips me about Mario Lanza's performance here is the emotion behind it. Nessun Dorma is a beautiful piece, and when sung with emotion the way Mario Lanza does it, it's taken to a new level.
varaliluna 10 months ago
He's the best - I've even compared him to recording of Caruso and I love Lanza more... My grandmother loved him and I always thought it was because he was from Philly. Now I know where I got my ear.
tinaslack9 11 months ago
As a rule you choose the best ! Thank you ever so much.
MrKonstantin06 1 year ago
I am usually banned from making comments about this man. I have tried over and over again to find something in his singing that warrents all the accolades heaped on this singer. He had a very successful career, i understand, but I simply can t stand to listen to him. His singing is so affected with over the top shmalz. And placing him in the same category as Gigli or bjoerling or any of the great tenors, to me is absurd. This probably will not post.. Lanza fans are usually very touchy,
operalament 1 year ago
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@operalament I am with you 100%, apart from a powerful instrument his musicianship is lacking; some scooping, thin tone at times, and very commercial sounding. To compare this to version to Bjorling's is sacrilege.
AJJL4041 1 year ago
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@AJJL4041 Fuck off fuck head!! You are stupid. If you think about it....... you will agree. You are an idiot. You know it! Pompous fuck.
ke1mc2 1 year ago
Youtube "nowhere men" don’t really count, but a few influential critics thought this: “truly great natural tenor voice of the past century" Placido Domingo "Caruso’s successor." – Callas "voice of enormous dramatic impact." – Domingo "His magnificent voice inspired a generation of tenors" - Carreras "a fantastic voice--not just wonderful--a fantastic voice." - Pavarotti “greatest voice ever bestowed on a human being" - London finally, "Lanza possessed the voice of the century" Corelli
talondriver6 1 year ago
@operalament Most people probs did not answer you because you said they would jump on you and they didnt want to prove you right. I will. You're an ass.
liljee16 8 months ago
@liljee16 brilliant comment!
operalament 8 months ago
@operalament ;-) Felt like being ridiculous lol.
liljee16 8 months ago
@operalament Deaf Knobhead & biggest troll on you tube
protarget1 1 month ago
@operalament Why should anyone be banned? We have a right to express our opinion. So I will express mine. Luciano Pavarotti is the greatest singer of this "century."
Domingo is close behind. However Domingo had to STRAIN to hit high C. Pav did not have to strain. His total ease and his tone is far superior than others. He had a massive chest area..and that is what projected the incredible tone.
HeatherGlen33 1 month ago
@HeatherGlen33 Pav. was a great tenor.But,Caruso,Gigli,Lauri Volpi,De Muro,Merli,Masini,Corelli, DiStefano,Barioni,Fillipeschi,Bjorling,Campagnano,Pertile,Zenatello,Del Monaco,Martinelli,Cortis,Keipura to name a few were all better than Domingo.
sugarbist 1 month ago
Too beautiful for words! Thank you. Maya
mayatatyana1 1 year ago 6
Meraviglioso..... credo che quella di mario lanza sia l'interpretazione più bella e suggestiva che sia mai stata fatta.
sherel4 1 year ago
Meraviglioso..... credo che quella di mario lanza sia l'interpretazione più bella e suggestiva che sia mai stata fatta.
sherel4 1 year ago
Whatever the comments about Mario to me he was the Greatest and will be till the day i die.
maduncledai 2 years ago 7
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He sobs his way through the aria way too much
KenneRon 2 years ago
In response to Lanza not having had the best of moral values. In Hollywood one would've been hard pressed to find much if any high moral standards. It was a cutthroat business even in it's infancy. Lanza was a normal man in that temptations took over him. Yes he screwed up but toward the end of his short life, as he matured, I think that he reflected upon his indiscretions in light of his wife and children. None the less he was a flesh and blood human being....
conlagrime 2 years ago 5
I grew up listening to Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Patsy Cline and so forth. Later on it was The Beatles, Barbara Streisand, Ed Ames, Tony Bennett, etc. All unique and talented. Mario Lanza was a giant! Not so much for his acting abilities as for his God given voice and the ability to interpret a song with a richness, beauty and emotional content that few if any could and can execute. Bravo Lanza!!! Thank God for the recordings!!!
conlagrime 2 years ago 7
@conlagrime Anyone who saw Lanza as a giant ..was never exposed to many years of listening to opera, and attending opera, so as to be able to distinguish what was truely beautiful. Caruso did not have the technology of the microphone that we have now. As I listened..he sounded weak. Gili was excellent. Lanza rolled his "r's" which signifies, an American trying to use Italian. This brings us back to Pav..the King of Opera.
HeatherGlen33 1 month ago
@HeatherGlen33Yes,the old recordings are not good,But many astute listeners have had the ear to understand the transmission of the older recordings&realize that Caruso's sound was not weak.Corelli also rolled his R's& he was Italian.This brings us to PAV.. as you say{ the king of opera} I thought he was an excellent lyric tenor,But you negect to mention his compulsive eating&WOMANIZING.Does this not bother you because he is your favorite?Herbert Breslin,Pavs Agent wrote a book callThe King& I
sugarbist 1 month ago
@HeatherGlen33 Simple Troll
Check out Marios life at wickopedia
protarget1 4 days ago
oh mario you voice is straight from heaven
beautiful.
toots440 2 years ago 4
AMAZING
ricjackal 2 years ago 5
incredible
chelleywellie 2 years ago 9
What is the date of this recording?
smemr 2 years ago 2
Thank you so much! Mario's voice filled our home so many years ago. He is in heaven I know....Grazie!
Romanini43047 2 years ago 3
Forgot how beautiful his voice was!! I miss him to this day. I used to play his records on my Victrola HiFi record player!!!
MsHurryCane 2 years ago 13
The best, I haven't heard him in years. What a singer.
butchscorner 2 years ago 16
No wonder almost all great tenors, say that Mario Lanza was their inspiration. Even the new star of the Opera Houses around the World, the Maltese Tenor Joseph Calleja who is only 31 yrs old, said that Mario Lanza influenced him to become what he has become today.
turhanbey 2 years ago 25
this is the best version, of the song. by the best voice, no wonder pav, loved mario. ..
rouman7 2 years ago 11
Let me explain. YOUR basic SUN sign is CHARACTER. Standards traits. Time stands still in the heavens, the moment of BIRTH . the sky is a giant CLOCK SAME natal Clock that the Navy uses to guide Travel on the ocean. Where the MOON is located In the stars determines YOUR TRUE heart, hidden to most. This Depth, you see in Mario, is SCORPIO as the MOON at his birth was in CONJUCTION to it. BEAUTIFUL gift.
endtymsnatzal 2 years ago
Maybe that's why I (and many others) hear his magnificent voice as we do and wonder why some other people don't seem to get it. What a rare gift he was to all of us. We were blessed not only to hear his voice but to continue (by technology) to hear it even after he has returned home. Let me also say this. He was a good man of the highest values.
dimare3 2 years ago 12
While I am as big a fan of Lanza's singing as anyone, I have to pont out that he did not possess "the highest values".
Anyone who has seriously studied his life and career cannot disagree. Morally, the man was flawed in several respects.
eblackadder3 2 years ago
Tell me eblackadder...have you ever
made a mistake? Have you ever broken
a commandment? The bible says those
without sin throw the first stone. I bet
you won't throw one, am I right?
brunobrandy 2 years ago 2
As I stated, I am a tremendous fan of Lanza, he was one of the influences along with Caruso, Gigli and others which made me pursue a singing career. I was merely pointing out that the poster was erroneous in stating that the man possessed "the highest values". I'm not criticizing Lanza, I am merely stating a fact. He was a flawed human being, as are most of us, but I respect his talent immensely.
eblackadder3 2 years ago 4
@eblackadder3 Watch me get banned now..Lanza sat in his living room with a reporter and discussed how he got Lana Turner, Betty Grable, Gene Tierney, and others in bed, and laughed about it while his wife and 5 children were in the home.He was discusting as a human being. Yes it was in papers and magazines. His death was not a natural one. He had dealings with the Mafia. Our belief was homicide.
HeatherGlen33 1 month ago
@HeatherGlen33 Lanza only had 4 children.I never saw this story documented before about Turner,Grable& Tierney.There is no proof that Lanza had dealings with the Mafia,But his death was very suspicious.I don't doubt that Lanza had his problems with wine ,women&song,However,I hope your statement about Lanza sitting down in living room with the reporter is more accurate than the rest of the information you stated here.
sugarbist 1 month ago
@dimare3 Again.. Lanza had a beautiful voice. Did you ever sit in the seat of an opera house, listening time and time again for over 50 years? You MUST have this experience to identify who is the best this century had to offer...sheesh.
HeatherGlen33 1 month ago
.. continued from below. This is why your heart welts-up, because He consumes & extracts all within him , What is there, is the ULTIMATE Pain/Passion/Love/longing.... Born Aquarius(a head of hie time) HIS internal Heart is a SCORPIO. DEEP, and sorrowful ae the emotions you se coming forth, His SHELL/Aquarius--His emotion BURST in a shockwave of Passionate SCORPIO, No other FEELS as Much as a SCORPIO MOON sign, gift at birth.
endtymsnatzal 2 years ago
What makes some STAND OUT, from the REST? it's always " EMOTION". Soem can PRETEND emotion(ACT) others have it. WHY, What makes this in some & others not? Many wonderful singers in Opera out there., what makes Mario Lanza so compelling? ...... THIS......is why... NEXT comment.......
endtymsnatzal 2 years ago
He stands alone in voice and expression, I could listen forever.....
Misguidedsoul 3 years ago 17
My 1st love....weeping over my Dansette record player ....
blodwenversace666 2 years ago
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Mine first love as well! I always weep when I hear his voice!
Revmiss101 2 years ago
M.Lanza è per me come un"FIGLIO".Quel viso da eterno giovanotto mi fa sentire verso di LUI molto "affetto e RISPETTO ".La sua"VOCE POTENTE ARMONICA BRILLANTE e NATURALE" è"AFFASCINANTE".Nel 1979 (a 26 anni) ho dipinto il volto di una DONNA con le labbra"serrate "e gli occhi che"non ti guardano"quella mancanza di"dialogo" che avevo con le donne era espresso così intensamente che ho"ferito" quel volto con delle violente pennellate.Ho vissuto sensazioni come lui esprime"graffiando" quel volto!
ulisseclisse 3 years ago 2
I'll never be sure why they didn't use this take in the movie.
ShawDAMAN 3 years ago 12
Mario's voice touches the deepest parts of my heart. I remember him on Tv when I was a child. He has such a pure voice. I could listen to him all day. I am so happy to see him her and so many other fans of Mario.
Su
susustory 3 years ago 9
Mario Lanza is my mother's idol. She is his number one fan even up to now. She requested me last year to buy her an album of Mario Lanza. I bought it in EBay and sent it to her and she was like a teenage girl again listening to it day and night. I bought her a walkman but she doesnt like it she wants to play it loud. :)
rosabella08 3 years ago 7
my god mario was my childhood love lol my friends thought i was weird maybe i was i never got over him
annledden 3 years ago 5
Remarkable and brilliant are the only words that can be used to portray this amazing performance by one of the greatest voices of all time.
efiodice 3 years ago 14
there is no better voice then mario lanza the world is missing alot without him in it thank god we are still abble to lissen to his music an enjoy his songs
jacqy1603 3 years ago 15
I invite everybody to see the nessun dorma of the tenor alberto escobar I´ts great.
hiderert 3 years ago
Grazie per questo regalo Sal!!
:)
H2Odimare 3 years ago 6
Mario lanza in my opion had one of the best voices ever, better than Pavarotti if you listen really close Idspow in very song you can hear his pruncation in every song you just need to thake the cotton out of your ears word
sallyu42 3 years ago 20
Grande Mario Lanza, uma da vozes de ouro.
DLJX10 3 years ago
Mario Lanza was the greatest tenor of all time! So many do not know his name because he died so young. Was a fabulous voice!
ILuvBobbyDarin 3 years ago 8
caruso was 1st opera singer to sell 1,000,000 records-vesti la giubba-mario played caruso in 1951 movie-caruso had a powerful voice but mario fans feel mario had the more beautiful voice-during ww1 caruso sang songs for the war bond drive some in english-to a lot of people he sounded like the Kaiser!-i'm a 1950 brat and loved 48-50's music-GREAT CARUSO was 1st opera movie i ever saw-what a come down when i heard the real Caruso sing-say what u want Mario had the most beautiful voice ever!
leesgas 3 years ago 6
Great...a little better than the cut in Serenade :)
ShawDAMAN 3 years ago
Mario Lanza is the BEST Opera singer ever!!!
The Voice of the Century!!!
JohnnyElvis1935 4 years ago 9
yea you are right!
Masknick 3 years ago
What about Enrico Caruso?
phantom4087 3 years ago