Ramon Novarro singing in French the Jules Massenet Opera Manon ( Call of the flesh 1930)

Ramon Novarro would have very much liked to be opera singer but his voice was too light for it and excellent for song and operetta. In that movie, Call of the flesh (1930) he plays Juan, a singer, and his performance of the Massenet s opera Manon becomes more dramatic and successful because he believes have lost forever the woman he loves. From point of view of a professional singer, his interpretation is perhaps not absolutly good because he forces his voice but he was not an opera singer and however that