Another from the series of newly commissioned experiments in creative radio.
The Church of Lanza. Mario Lanza had a singing career that lasted ten years, and he cancelled almost as many concerts as he gave. He was a boxer and a gargantuan eater who only ever sang one complete opera in public. Lanza died 40 years ago this year, an obese, bloated and exhausted young man. However he remains one of the most celebrated - and, for some, the most execrable - tenor voices of the century. In an original sound piece for Radio 3, Jakko Jakszyk weaves the voices of Lanza's family, friends and acolytes into a musical contemplation of Lanza - man and myth. Producer Simon Elmes