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ERIC MYERS reveals the backstory of Mario Lanza's The Great Caruso, the most influential opera movie ever.
Lanza in The Great Caruso, singing excerpts from La Gioconda
© MGM/Photofest 2010
Once every few decades something happens to nudge opera off the sidelines and give it a push before a broader public. Today, it's the Met's HD broadcasts. Twenty years ago, it was The Three Tenors. Fo...
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