Mario Lanza (Tenor In Exile)

More than 40 years after his premature death, the mystique of Mario Lanza continues. He remains a legendary figure, a crossover icon embraced and remembered by an entire generation for bridging the gap between popular and classical music, the acknowledged inspiration of todays Three Tenors. Bessette tells his story with a novelists eye for the inherent tragedy of Lanzas brief life, the contradictory facets of his personality, his passion for life, and his self-destructiveness. HARDCOVER.