1h 49min | Biography, Drama, Music | 10 May 1951 | Color
Director: Richard Thorpe
Stars: Mario Lanza, Ann Blyth, Dorothy Kirsten.
Peter Herman Adler ... operatic numbers staged by
Watched online; ok print for small screen. (I started with another, on an off-brand streaming site, and it stuttered and sputtered, ruining the film.)
After going to two Live at the Met performances last month, enjoying them, and not wincing at the price, I can tell that I have missed opera. (Just checked Amazon Prime, and they have a lot of free performances. No idea how good they are, although restricting to 4-star ratings still gives a lot of listings.)
ML has a very nice voice, but his troubled personal history gets in the way of my enjoying this. And this gives one aria from an opera at best, sometimes only a snippet of an aria. And he had to get fitted for different costumes for all those scenes. Ugh.
So this is a Whitman's Sampler of tenor roles, and a fictitious biography to boot. Better to invest time in watching a whole opera.
MGM, dir. Thorpe; 6+
