The Young Caruso

  • Maurizio di Nardo: Enrico Caruso as a child
  • Ermanno Randi: Enrico Caruso as a man
  • Mária Tasnádi Fekete: Caruso's mother (as Mary of Tasnady )
  • Gaetano Verna: Caruso's father
  • Gina Lollobrigida: Stella
  • Gian Paolo Rosmino: Stella's father (as Giampaolo Rosmino )
  • Ciro Scafa: Luigi Gregorio Proboscide, patrons Caruso
  • Carlo Sposito: Giovanni (as Carletto Sposito )
  • Elena Sangro: Signora Tivaldi, singing teacher
  • Nerio Bernardi Francesco Zucchi, impresario
  • Gino Saltamerenda: Callaro, theater director
  • Lamberto Picasso: Guglielmo Vergine, music teachers
  • Franca Tamantini: Carragi - Soprano

Miracle of a voice - Enrico Caruso ( Original title: Leggenda di una voce ) is an Italian film music from 1951, directed by Giacomo Gentilomo. The film is based on the novel Neapolitan legend of Frank Thiess. The tenor Mario del Monaco was the singing voice of Caruso's film. In the GDR, the film was titled " Enrico Caruso ".

Action

Even as the young Enrico Caruso has a dream he never loses sight of the fact he wants to be a famous singer once. He finds support for his mother, who is seriously ill. The sister of her treating physician is a singing teacher and Enrico's mother ensured that she teaches her son free. At Caruso's disappointment, however, is the teaching which not only includes singing, not as he had imagined.

Enrico Caruso, who grew up in the slums of Naples, where he met the street singer Luigi Gregorio Proboscide, he belongs to, joyous. However, he has reckoned without his father, who does not believe in the singing of his son. To make matters worse is Caruso's mother, who always had an open ear for him and believed in his voice, now dead. So Caruso first need to say goodbye to his dream.

There, eight years before he met Proboscide again. This is impressed by the young man 's voice and recommends Enrico Caruso singing educators virgin who shares Proboscides opinion. In Proboscide Caruso meets his niece, the young Stella. The two fall in love. Although Proboscide is very satisfied with the choice of his niece, but Stella's father wants to marry his daughter to a rich aristocrat from Sicily. Enrico Caruso to deep disappointment, Stella bends to the will of her father.

Caruso is now concentrating more on his singing career and is at an audition even by Ruggero Leoncavallo, Pagliacci aria which he maintains, praised. The young singer joins a traveling company, where he was hired as a second tenor. When the ensemble is in Trapani, where Stella now lives, Caruso would necessarily occur instead of the first tenor Giorgi, but what director Callaro rejects. In defiance Caruso denied then further participation in general and flees into a pub.

At the premiere, however, the first tenor Giorgi falls out because of hoarseness, so that one must resort to Caruso. The but which has indulged so much wine that he is no longer sober. His appearance is a disaster. The audience revolts, one puts on a break. After the break, a completely transformed Enrico Caruso enters the stage, where it is possible to draw the audience in its spell. A first step to a great career is done.

To connect with Stella, the mitfieberte in the audience, but it was too late.

Background

In the Federal Republic of Germany of the film on April 12, 1952 and on May 29, In 1953, in the cinema of the GDR, the premiere was on 31 January 1965. In the U.S., the film had its premiere on September 2, 1953 under the title The Young Caruso. In 1952, he started also in Belgium, Denmark and Sweden. In 1953 the film's release in Finland, Portugal and France. In Turkey, the first performance took place in 1956.

Historical reference: Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) was the most famous tenor of the first half of the 20th century and is regarded as the most important figure in the world of opera. He had indeed come from a poor family neapolotanischen and his mother, whom he loved more than anything, gave him an education. Guglielmo Vergine, the renowned teacher, there was actually Caruso's life. He taught him, though he reportedly did not believe in a great career Caruso, free of charge, but secured in an adhesion contract 25% of all revenue Caruso in the first five years. Caruso later went before, however, and it came to a settlement. To his hometown Naples Caruso had his life a rather ambivalent love.

Synchronization

The German synchronous processing was for the Mars - Film GmbH. For the dialogues and the Director Hans F. Wilhelm was responsible. The sound took over Erwin Tews. The production line was Conrad Flockner. It is a production of Asso - film Rome, hire London German film.

Criticism

" The youth of the world- famous tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) until his ascension. Something simple and sentimental advised, but when singing film thanks to the tenor Mario del Monaco quite pleasing. ( DDR Title: " Enrico Caruso ") ".

Reception

  • A fictional version of Caruso's life in 1951 The great Caruso filmed rather cheesy in the lead role under the title with Mario Lanza. The film was banned in Italy because of its relatively fictitious content. Also Lanza could never be considered with its electronically enhanced voice seriously as Caruso actor. ( Lanza has all three times been on the opera stage ).
  • In the film Fitzcarraldo by Werner Herzog with Klaus Kinski in the lead role of Fitzcarraldo is at the beginning a performance by Caruso in the Opera of Manaus ( Brazil), where Caruso, however, has never sung in reality.
  • Recordings of arias interpreted by Caruso make up a large part of the soundtrack of the movie Match Point by Woody Allen dar.
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