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3 unusual facts about Peter Herman Adler


Mario Lanza: The American Caruso

It explores the life of tenor Mario Lanza, and includes clips from six of the tenor's eight films, together with interviews with such Lanza associates and contemporaries as Anna Moffo, Kathryn Grayson, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Joe Pasternak, and Dorothy Kirsten, Frances Yeend, and the conductor Peter Herman Adler.

Peter Herman Adler

He made only one foray into movies, adapting the music for "The Great Caruso" in 1950, for which he received an Academy Award nomination.

He was also involved in the early career development of such singers as Leontyne Price, George London and Mario Lanza.



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