Mario Lanza : Hollywood Bowl : 1947/48. Eight great arias and 160 colour/coloured photos.

Three of the arias are duets with the excellent soprano Frances Yeend and the orchestra for the 1947 concert is conducted by Eugene CD also has the orchestral and soprano solo pieces played in the concert but for this video I have just included the Mario Lanza arias and I have,hopefully, improved the original audio quality. I think that these recordings show the exceptional skills of Mario Lanza as an operatic tenor. The arias are as follows: 0:00 Una furtiva lagrima from L’elisir d’amore (Donizetti) Nemorino sings of the tear he has seen falling down the cheek of Adina, the woman he loves. He now knows that her heart is beating for him and that, after all, she loves him. This aria was a favourite of Caruso’s. 5:14 Un di all’ azzurro spazio from Andrea Chenier (Giordano) At a reception held by the Countess her daughter, Madeleine, asks the poet Andrea Chenier to improvise a poem about love but instead he sings this aria condemning the pride of the aristocracy (