Heart's Desire

1935
1h 22m

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An impresario's sister touring Europe discovers the talent of a popular Viennese singer and persuades him to sign an operatic contract in England, reluctant as he is to leave his homeland. B... Read allAn impresario's sister touring Europe discovers the talent of a popular Viennese singer and persuades him to sign an operatic contract in England, reluctant as he is to leave his homeland. Beautifully sung music in a well done British production, one of the few starring Austrian ... Read allAn impresario's sister touring Europe discovers the talent of a popular Viennese singer and persuades him to sign an operatic contract in England, reluctant as he is to leave his homeland. Beautifully sung music in a well done British production, one of the few starring Austrian tenor Richard Tauber.

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Finale
(uncredited)
from "Carmen"
Music by Georges Bizet
Sung by Richard Tauber
[Toreador march fragment]

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Never mind the plot ... just enjoy Tauber's voice

Oliver Desmond [Carl Harbord] has written a new opera and is scouring Europe with Frances [Leonora Corbett] for a tenor to sing the lead. In Vienna they visit a street cafe where Josef Steidler [Richard Tauber] sings each evening for a few coins. They are impressed with this voice discovered in such an unlikely location, and invite him to London to sing in the opera. He is enamoured with Frances and so agrees, but when she agrees to marry Oliver his unrequited passion takes its toll.

OK, so the plot is neither very special or original. But I would need to be incredibly petty to worry about the absence of plot when I can sit back and luxuriate in such a magnificent voice as Tauber's.