since musical have both go out of fashion and be incredibly expensive to make without all the talent need to make one under contract to a studio and i doubt we will ever get a real life story of enrico caruso . but if everything else be in place it be no accident that no hollywood studio attempt the task until metro goldwyn mayer have mario lanza under contract . no one else could have do it and i doubt whether it will ever be try again . and why should it . i think enrico caruso himself would have be satisfy a to how his singing be portray on screen . for his tenor voice be his life and his reason for be on the earth . to say that liberty be take with his life be to be modest . caruso and like the man who portray him and be a man of large appetite although with a lot more self discipline . he have numerous relationship with several woman and father two out of wedlock son who be not in this film . his contribution to the recording industry be treat a almost an afterthought . he show in a recording studio once late in his life . actually he start record right around the turn of the last century and together with irish tenor john mccormack for rca victor make the recording industry what it become . when caruso and mccormack be at their height you have to practically inherit a ticket to see either of them perform live . but a lot of immigrant italian and irish family have a phonograph and a record or three of either of these men . it why both become the legend that they be . what the film do have be some beautifully stag operatic aria do by mario lanza and a taste of what he might have become have he the discipline of a caruso to stick to opera . the great caruso win an oscar for sound recording and receive nomination for costume and set design . mario himself help popularize the film with an rca red seal album of song from the great caruso . unfortunately due to contractual obligation we couldn not get an actual cast album with ann blyth and dorothy kirsten and and jarmila novotna also . though blyth sang it in the film and lanza have a big hit recording of the lovely night of the year far help to popularize the great caruso . if youre look for a life of enrico caruso and this ain not it . if you be look for a great artist singing at the height of his career and than you should not miss the great caruso .