The Great Caruso Crowther says, "All of the silliest, sappiest clichés of musical biography have been written by Sonya Levien and William Ludwig into the script. And Richard Thorpe has directed in a comparably mawkish, bathetic style." Nearly 40 years after its release, Caruso's son, Enrico, Jr., reminisced that, "Vocally and musically "The Great Caruso" ...has helped many young people discover opera, and even become singers themselves."He added that, "I can think of no other tenor, before or since Mario Lanza, who could have risen with comparable success to the challenge of playing Caruso in a screen biography." The film has also been
Luciano Caruso (composer) Romano Todesco, and U.T.Gandhi. In 1992 he along with drummer Nello Da Pont started "Progetto Exit". A school of jazz and experimental music based in Vittorio Veneto. He is the director of "Banda comunale della Città di Vittorio Veneto" and a member of "Phophonix Orchestra". Luciano Caruso (composer) Luciano Caruso (born July 19, 1957 in Turin, Italy) is an Italian Jazz composer and Soprano saxophone performer. In 1973, he moved to Vittorio Veneto to attend the music institute "Toti Dal Monte" in Pieve di Soligo and afterwards the school "Dizzy Gillespie" in Bassano del Grappa. He attended several workshops with