The film traces the life of tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). He loved Musetta in his hometown of Naples, and then Dorothy, the daughter of a patron of the Metropolitan Opera House. Caruso is unacceptable to the father of both women: for one, because he sings; for Dorothy, because he is a farmer. For New York aristocrats, Caruso was short, round-chested, loud, emotional and ill-bred. Their appreciation comes slowly. The film describes Caruso's exclamation: "A man has no voice, a voice has a man": he can't be the place he wants to go because he has to sing somewhere else, including the day his mother died. From beginning to end, Mario Lanza sang with stars from the metropolis.
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