I'm delighted to report that UK-based Sepia Records will soon be releasing yet another Mario Lanza CD compilation: Never Till Now, a collection of some of the man's finest recordings in English. Armando Cesari (author of Mario Lanza: An American Tragedy), Vincent Di Placido, Lee Ann Cafferata and I were the compilers, and the material that we've chosen spans most of Lanza's commercial recording career. 

Unfathomably, for an artist whose film The Great Caruso inspired the careers of many leading opera singers, and whose RCA album of the name was the first operatic LP to sell a million copies, CD compilations of tenor Mario Lanza have long emphasized the lighter part of his recorded legacy.