FERNANDO CORENA SINGS " LA DULCAMARA" by Gaetano Donizetti

[MrMattsboy]

Enzo Dara? With that ugly voice and unfunny shtick?  I saw Bruscantini and, much as I admire him, he was dull. Corena was superb! Corena sang and was requested by MANY theatres, and by many great conductors. Italians have a tendency to like their boring, unfunny Mariottis and Daras, simply because they sang a lot in Italy a lot. Provincialism!

[TheKonradlorenz]

Corena è certamente bravissimo un ottimo Dulcamara. Ma questo video... mappercaritaaaaa! Ma ché, deve andare la notte per strada?

[fabiocasadeiturroni]

divertente mi ricorda una travestita di Bologna :-)

[eli52133]

he's so gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­d!



[filippobass1]

bravoooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­ooooooooo

[aristopus]

I saw Corena at the old Met on Broadway in the early '60s. His stage presence was magnificant as he descended on stage in a wonderful ballon. It seems like he is the quintessential Dulcamara. I believe Bergonzi was Nemorino and Scotto his lost love.

I'd like to have that night over again.

[francescop1023]

Corena aveva una gran voce e un gusto pessimo, gusto affinato da tanti anni al Met. Detto questo, non è possibile nessun paragone nemmeno lontano coi grandi Dulcamara del XX° secolo, in primis Bruscantini, poi Taddei e Dara

[prodesica]

Senza dimenticare il Dulcamara di Alfredo Mariotti, il migliore di sempre per Pavarotti!

[petegib7]

Didn't know Janis Joplin could sing bass  (1:20.)

[Ginotti]

Il peggio del peggio del peggio

[organdude44]

Corena was the best! More Corena please.

[silverzroma]

fernando was the best one....

present time voices maybe cn sin "la cena e' pronta"...

im sorry! Chapeau fo Corena!

listen Schicchi..AMAZING!!!

[picapin]

his voice doesnt have any vibrato though. There is no strenght, no darkness... it lacks most of the features of a bass voice

[ah332]

shows how much you know...

corena was arguably the greatest basso buffo ever. one of the greatest actors on the 20th century opera stage.

a wonderful mozart and bel canto singer, dark and rich yet never sacrificing a forward placement. his recording of mozart concert bass arias are arguably the benchmark for the rep

[picapin]

Yeah, well, some people call Villazon the greatest tenor of our times...

[Ginotti]

Corena never sang at all: no legato, no placement, no evenness to talk about.

[petegib7]

Baloney.

[Funghiallapanna]

That is undoubtedly why he was chosen to sing in theatre performances and major recordings by conductors such as Erich Kleiber, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Karl Bohm, Sir Thomas Beecham, Erich Leinsdorf, Georg Solti, Herbert Von Karajan, and many others.

[aristopus]

Ah332, I totally agree. I saw him at the old Met every time I could. He was the best.

I used to sit in the Family Circle and was amazed at how tall he was. I could hear every note. What a voice.

Corelli was the only other one I could hear so distinctly.

[fideliosmum]

Ha ha - even funnier than Terfel. In drag he reminds me of Dick Emery.

[gorgonleggio]

He was great! Great as a singer, great as an actor! I saw his last appearance on stage: at the Lausanne Festival in 1984 as Sagrestano in "Tosca"! I adored him since I heard him singing Mozart in the late sixties!

[nistano1]

Wonderful comic bass!!! GREAT, GREAT, and GREAT!!!!!

[aguacun]

The best Dulcamara... what a voice!!!!!

[Cesconegre]

No, no: the best Dulcamaras were Sesto Bruscantini and Enzo Dara.

[imachunt]

Amazing singer. It's a shame that this is the only Fernando Corena on youtube!

Thank you for posting this gem anyway.

[titubiamo]

grazie :-)

[2octavian]

donizetti only one z