DESCRIPTION:
Mario’s beautiful voice is combined with the exquisite performance of professional ballroom dancers, Luca and Loraine Baricchi, thereby bringing both audio and visual pleasure to the audience.

Photographs of Mario are from the film “The Great Caruso.” It and his other films are available for purchase from Turner Classic Movies.

"’Falling in Love with Love’ is a show tune from the Rodgers and Hart musical The Boys from Syracuse, where it was introduced by Muriel Angelus. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1938. The song is set to a waltz, but the lyrics ‘remind his [Hart] listeners of the show's skeptical tone.’”
(Above quote is from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling_in_Love_with_Love )

“Luca and Loraine Baricchi are professional ballroom dancers and dance teachers from England. They twice won the Professional World Ballroom Dance Championship (1999, 2001). The couple also won the International Professional Standard Championship in London in 1999–2000, and are former British Open, UK and European champions. After regaining the World title in 2001, they decided to retire from competitive dancing.
Luca Baricchi was born in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Loraine was born Loraine Barry in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. They continue to teach dance in London, Italy and in Loraine's sister's studio in Tampa, Florida. The Baricchis had married and started dancing together in 1993.”
(Above quote is from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca_and_Loraine_Baricchi )
Luca and Loraine Baricchi are actually dancing to a lovely song entitled Nuances by Jack Dieval. Please log into up-loader lockstepper’s wonderful complete video of them. The video is entitled “ballroom dancing slow waltz by the Baricchi couple.” It is found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsN5kv3Cjc4 .

“Francesco Beda (Trieste, November 29, 1840 - July 30, 1900) was an Italian painter, mainly depicted costume genre subjects. The ‘costume genre subjects’ were popular with some buyers, and depicted individuals in anachronistic, often aristocratic garb of the prior centuries, often entertained in either gallantry or frivolous enjoyment.
Francesco studied with Karl von Blaas in Vienna, but in addition to working in his native Trieste, he travelled and painted for patrons in Austria, Hungary, and Croatia. He painted portraits of the Austrian Empress Elizabeth, the Prince of Rolian, and Bishop Strossmayer of Zagreb. He also had an interest in Orientalist subjects as exemplified by Il Caffè Orientale di Trieste (c. 1888), now on display in the Civic Museum of Oriental Art of Trieste and the Capture of Slaves.”
(Above quote is from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Beda )

The following is a listing of the paintings used in this video in order of their appearance:
1) Edmond-Louis Dupain (1847-1933) – Romantic Scene by the Sea
2) Francesco Beda (1840 - 1900) - A Game of Billiards
3) Francesco Beda (1840 - 1900) – The Suitor
4) Francesco Beda (1840 - 1900) - The Chess Game
5) Francesco Vinea (1845 - 1902) – Couple With Dog In The Picture Gallery, 1871
6) Alfred Stevens (1823 –1906) - After the Ball, 1874
7) John Henry Henshall (1856 – 1928) – Thoughts, 1883
8) Samuel Edmund Waller – title unknown, 1901
9) Wladislaw Bakalowicz (1833–1903) – Scene from Henri Valois Court
10) Charles Joseph Frederick Soulacroix (1825 – 1899) - Enchantee
11) Gustave-Jean Jacquet (1846-1909) – Lost in Thought
12) Francesco Beda (1840 - 1900) – title unknown