伟大的卡鲁索

这部电影追溯了男高音恩里科·卡鲁索（1873-1921）的一生。他爱他的家乡那不勒斯的穆塞塔，然后是多萝西，一位大都会歌剧院赞助人的女儿。卡鲁索对两个女人的父亲来说都是不可接受的：对一个来说，因为他唱歌；对多萝西来说，因为他是个农民。对纽约的贵族来说，卡鲁索身材矮小，胸膛圆润，声音洪亮，情绪化，没有教养。他们的欣赏来得很慢。影片描述了卡鲁索的感叹：“男人没有声音，声音有男人”：他不能成为他想去的地方，因为他必须在别处唱歌，包括他母亲去世的那天。从头到尾，马里奥兰扎和来自大都会的明星们一起歌唱。Loosely traces the life of tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). He loves Musetta, in his home town of Naples, and then Dorothy, the daughter of one of the Metropolitan Opera's patrons. Caruso is unacceptable to both women's fathers: to one, because he sings; to Dorothy's, because he is a peasant. To New York patricians, Caruso is short, barrel chested, loud, emotional, unrefined. Their appreciation comes slowly. The film depicts Caruso's lament that "the man does not have the voice, the voice has the man": he cannot be places he wants to be, because he must be elsewhere singing, including the day his mother dies. Throughout, Mario Lanza and stars from the Met sing.