Elsewhere in Tuesday’s paper you can find my humble little story about renewed interest in the untimely death at 38 of tenor Mario Lanza, the huge — no pun intended — movie star of the 1950s. I didn’t ...

Heigh Ho, dear lovely rainbow tribe, Bobby Patrick, your rainbow reviewer is back in CD-Land to offer another broken-down breakdown of a new music release. So, strap in and get ready, as Bobby goes on ...

The cracks were already beginning to show, though: Lanza’s huge appetites and ballooning weight were beginning to be a concern, and director Curtis Bernhardt laughably disapproved of the “excess ...

In 1921, Mario Lanza was born in an unassuming, two-floor row home at 636 Christian St.. The son of Italian immigrants, he would go on to become an international superstar as an opera singer and actor ...

Vincent James DeFini built what might have been the world's biggest collection of Mario Lanza memorabilia. He also befriended other stars. DeFini died April 10 at the Cleveland Clinic after a heart ...

The Loveliest Night Of The Year - a tribute to legendary tenor and film star Mario Lanza - takes place at the National Concert Hall this Sunday night. The show has returned to sell-out audiences ...

Mario Lanza's birthplace has been reduced to a pile of rubble. Despite opposition from the local neighbors association and some South Philly residents of Italian heritage, a developer has moved ...

Mario Lanza, singer and actor, died Oct. 7 in a hospital in Rome. He was 38. Lanza, a Philadelphia native, made his operatic debut at Tanglewood in the “The Merry Wives of Windsor” in 1942. He would ...

(See Cover)It was the emotion-packed end of Act I of Pagliacci, and the clown’s heart was broken; the sob-racked notes of Vesti la Giubba soared out of the phonograph, quivered through the cluttered ...