Serenade/A Cavalcade of Show Tunes
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| Serenade/A Cavalcade of Show Tunes | ||
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| Compilation album by Mario Lanza | ||
| Released | 2004 | |
| Genre | Opera, show tunes | |
| Label | BMG UK | |
The Mario Lanza CD Serenade/A Cavalcade of Show Tunes is a BMG UK "twofer", released in 2004. Comprising the soundtrack album from the film Serenade, and the LP A Cavalcade of Show Tunes, the CD also includes a previously unreleased version of the song Serenade by Nicholas Brodszky and Sammy Cahn. An entirely different song from the one featured in the actual film of Serenade, this recording is noteworthy for its difficult tessitura, including a number of high B naturals.
The soundtrack to Serenade, recorded in 1955, contains some of tenor Mario Lanza's most acclaimed operatic performances. These include the Monologue (Dio! Mi Potevi Scagliar) from Otello, Lamento di Federico from L'Arlesiana, Di Rigori Armato from Der Rosenkavalier, Amor Ti Vieta from Fedora, and O Paradiso from L'Africana. Lanza also sings Schubert's Ave Maria, Rossini's La Danza, and the Neapolitan song Torna a Surriento by Ernesto De Curtis. The conductor on the operatic arias was the Academy Award-winning Musical Director Ray Heindorf.
The CD concludes with the 1956 album A Cavalcade of Show Tunes, arranged and conducted by Henri Rene. Among this collection of 12 musical comedy and operetta standards, Lanza sings Franz Lehar's Yours Is My Heart Alone from The Land of Smiles, Only A Rose from Rudolf Friml's The Vagabond King, and Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! from Victor Herbert's Naughty Marietta.
