Mario Lanza - Someday

This is a very gorgeous song, sung by the best, the great Mario Lanza. His beautiful voice and photos of him are combined with appropriate paintings by master artists to accompany the song lyrics.

The beginning photo of Mario Lanza was taken from "The Great Caruso" the rest of the photos of him were taken from his film "That Midnight Kiss". Both are available for purchase from Turner Classic Movies.

Rudolf Friml excelled with operetta style American musical theater. The story of The Vagabond King, "... originated in a hit 1901 drama, If I Were King, by Justin Huntly McCarthy...The 1925 Broadway operetta had a book by W.H. Post and Brian Hooker. Hooker was also the lyricist. He was a scholar of French literature known for an outstanding English translation of Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac." (Quote is from: http://www.answers.com/topic/the-vagabond-king-operetta )

The song, "Someday", was written by Rudolf Friml and Brian Hooker for this 1925 Broadway musical.
The story concerns the famous fifteenth-century French poet François Villon who lived, circa 1431 --1463. He was a poet, a thief, and a vagabond. The operetta, The Vagabond King, is about Villon's dislike for King Louis XI and Villon's involvement with the king's mistress, Katherine de Vaucelles. The plot reveals that the King is upset with Katherine's refusal to his proposals due to an unknown poet's advances. The king disguises himself and follows her to a meeting she has at the poet's favorite inn. Villon is there loudly criticizing the king for his incompetence. Villon boasts that he could do a better job. Upon hearing the boast, the king suddenly reveals himself. He offers Villon twenty-four hours to not only bring about the changes which he espouses for Paris, but also to win over Katherine for himself or he must muzzle forever his contempt for the king and abandon his pursuit of Katherine. The catch is that if he takes up the challenge, he must succeed with both goals or be hanged. Also a bit of a problem for Villon, is that he has already committed himself to his girlfriend Huguette.

The Broadway show was very popular with audiences and ran for 511 performances. "Paramount remade the musical in 1956, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Kathryn Grayson as Katherine, Oreste Kirkop as Villon, and Walter Hampden as the King. The cast also had many talented newcomers, including Rita Moreno (as Huguette) and Harry McNaughton, Jack Lord, Phyllis Newman, and Leslie Nielsen in smaller roles." (Quote is from: http://www.answers.com/topic/the-vagabond-king-operetta )

The following master artists and their paintings are listed in order of their appearance in the video:
1) Frank Miles -- Lillie Langtry
2) Émile Vernon - Girl by Moonlight
3) Francis Alexander (1800-1880) -- Charles Dickens, early in 1842
4) Gabriel Metsu - Man Writing a Letter
5) Bryullov, Karl (1799-1851) - The Dream (detail)
6) artist unknown - Courting Couple
7) Gabriël Metsu (Dutch, 1629--1667), - A Woman Artist (Le Corset rouge), c. 1661--4
8) Charles Daniel Ward (1872-c.1935) - The Progress of Spring
9) Gabriël Metsu (Dutch, 1629--1667), - A Woman Tuning her Cittern, Approached by a Man, c.1659-62
10) Sir Frank Dicksee - An Offering
11) Émile Vernon (?)
12) Daniel Ridgway Knight - Summer Evening
13) Karl Brulloff - A Dream of a Girl Before a Sunrise (1830 -- 1833)
14) Herman N. Hyneman (American artist, 1849--1907) - Woman in Snow
15) Daniel Ridgway Knight -- The Flower Girl
16) Vlaho Bukovac - Gundulic's Dream 1894
17) William G. Mackensie - A Knight and His Lady

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