Serenade: A Mario Lanza Songbook / The Ultimate Collection, Featuring: 7 Previously Unreleased Recordings! / RCA Red Seal Audio CD 2009 / 88697573892

UPC 886975738922

!!! Condition of CD is USED - VERY GOOD !!!

Mario Lanza (US: /ˈlɑːnzə,ˈlænzə/, Italian: [ˈlantsa]; born Alfredo Arnold Cocozza [koˈkɔttsa]; January 31, 1921 – October 7, 1959) was an American tenor, actor, and Hollywood film star of the late 1940s and the 1950s of Italian descent. Lanza began studying to be a professional singer at the age of 16. After appearing at the Hollywood Bowl in 1947, Lanza signed a seven-year film contract with Louis B. Mayer, the head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, who saw his performance and was impressed by his singing. Prior to that, the adult Lanza sang only two performances of an opera. The following year (1948), however, he sang the role of Pinkerton in Puccini's Madame Butterfly in New Orleans.

Tracklist:

1. Tosti: Marechiare

2. Toselli: Serenade
    Previously Unreleased

3. Tosti: A vucchella

4. DI Capua: O sole mio

5. Fusco: Dicitencello vuie
    Previously Unreleased

6. Padilla: Valencia

7. Cottrau: Fenesta che lucive
    Previously Unreleased

8. Di Chiara: La spagnola

9. Mario: Santa Lucia luntana
    Previously Unreleased.

10. Lecuona: Siboney

11. De Curtis: Non ti scordar di me

12. Lara: Granada

13. Bixio: Parlami d’amore, Mariù

14. Gastaldon: Musica proibita

15. Velazquez: Besame mucho

16. Zamecnik: Oh, Nights of Splendor (Neapolitan Nights)
      Previously Unreleased

17. Leoncavallo: Mattinata

18. De Curtis: Senza nisciuno
      Previously Unreleased

19. Frelre: Ay-ay-ay

20. Herbert: Neapolitan Love Song

21. d’Hardelot: Because ta
      Previously Unreleased

22. Rascel: Arrivederci Roma