Mario Lanza - This Nearly Was Mine - Romeo and Juliet movie - Bolshoi Ballet

Mario’s beautiful voice with photos from Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 movie of Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet with Bolshoi Ballet dancers Alexander Volchkov and Anna Nikulina dancing to Sergei Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet. Photos of Mario are from his film The Great Caruso. His films are available for purchase from Turner Classic Movies. Mario recorded this song in 1956 on the Lanza On Broadway album. This Nearly Was Mine was a song from “South Pacific is a musical composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan…. The story is based on James A. Michener’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific, combining elements of several of the stories.” [The above quote is from: (musical)] Film photos are from Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 Romeo and Juliet film. “Romeo and Juliet is a 1968 British-Italian romance film based on the tragic play of the same name (1591–95) by William