LANZA AND CARUSO
Sir,-I think "your. correspondent "Grateful to America" gces much too far when he says that Lanza’s. voice is the most beautiful the world has ever heard. Has he never heard Gigli, Bjorling, Schipa, Infantino, Schmidt,. mee man, etc.? Gigli particularly has superb control and quality-things Lanza may acquire with experience, but I doubt it unless he stops singing modern songs, the technique is so different from Opera. « To say Lanza is far superior to Caruso is rather stupid. No true comparison can be made, because Caruso’s recordings were made when the gramophone was in its infancy; suffice it to say that Caruso’s fame was phenomenal and was achieved during the "Golden Age of Opera" without the aid of the cinema or, virtually, gramophone or wireless. ; In. ‘conclusion, 1 would suggest your correspondént acquires a few operatic recordings of Gigli and notices how that golden voice can change in mid-note and the ease with which the highest notes are. attained-they don’t even sound high.’ But don’t let him try to sing the notes himself. lest he strain his epi-
glottis.
I. G.
BEVAN
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 652, 4 January 1952, Page 5
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186LANZA AND CARUSO New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 652, 4 January 1952, Page 5
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