Wow. I always read that Franco was extremely nervous on stage but I never knew that it came from his wife. Such a fantastic tenor, one of my favourites..
I was in the box just above the stage where Correlli and Tebaldi sang in the Met's tour of TOSCA. Never before or since have I been so shocked into awe when just 15 feet below he sang the Recondita with the metallic ringing voice of an athlete, flinging these soaring high notes up & out into the house. We were spellbound then, but when he reached the 2nd high note from the end he just held it forever. We felt ourselves levitate as the world stopped. It still rings.
hahaha...you know not whereof you speak. He was fine until he started listening to his wife, Loretta. She's the one who messed up his fabulous technique, and his head.
@jojojo943 - Boy, is THAT ever the truth. Especially the messing up his head part. (I witnessed a very small incidence of this; a friend who knew him well told me it was much worse than what I'd seen.)
@striuncekf - Soprano Eileen Farrell wrote in her book: "At intermission, his wife Loretta would barricade herself in his dressing room and scream at him, telling everything he'd done wrong. She didn't shut up even when we were on stage. It got so that I would try to avoid going to extreme stage left or right, no matter what the blocking called for, because Signora Corelli was always in the wings, yelling at her husband in Italian ..." This is exactly what it was like.
@ksol1460tv And she contributed greatly to his anxiety on stage. She should burn in hell. I met him in NY in the 1990s. I asked why he stopped singing so suddenly, not even to make digital recordings of songs etc. He told me "you have no idea how great the anxiety was when I sang on stage." So better to stop singing than become a slave to the audience "who would applaud anything Corelli sang, well or not. I didn't want to become like some of my colleagues." Better to leave on top!
It's ridiculous to criticize his technique, which was superb, magnificent, breathtaking. Name one other tenor who opened annually BOTH (!) the Met and La Scala seasons gloriously for so many years.
para mi corelli es de entre los mejores del siglo pasado , uno de los primeros si o si :D bella voz, excelente interpretacion... q gran spinto señores :D:D
Its funny....you listen to the orchestra and it sounds tinny because of the mike and equipment used then but Franco sounds unbelievable...... one can only imagine how good it actually sounded that day!!! Again....the Greatest Tenor ever!!! Bravo
Just watched it again. Viene le pelle d'oca. This has to be one of the finest renditions of any operatic aria, ever! My goodness what a gifted singer was he.
Wow! Thanks for posting this! Corelli is not from my generation, but he's always been my all-time favorite tenor. His voice just makes me melt. I have only seen dimunative pictures of him on record albums, with his face all made up and his body fully costumed.... and then there's that old Turandot album-pic in which he sort of looks like Boy George (not that that's a bad thing at all... luv ya Boy!) But I never realised what a truly & dashingly handsome man he was. !Que rico!
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Corelli was hugely gifted, that is clear. but let us not forget how hard he worked to become the great singer that he was. he was a tireless student of the voice and the art form,
I first hear franco with leontyne and karajan in carmen..on rca records...what a don jose.....and of course leontyne was stupendous in a mezzo voice part....franco rocks and is my all time macho tenor...cheers!!
I don't like uptight opera fan comparisons, but I do think it's upsetting that in the 60's you got to chose between listening to Del Monaco, Corelli, Bergonzi, Di Stefano, etc...and today, you just hope that the tenor does not crack in the upper register...
Mainly because tenors are pushed into it it far too young and are often too light for the role. I think there is plenty talent out there that can do it but the organization around then needs to get better.
the thing is---this is live and he is not pushing. his voice was not based on huge air and pressure or what many new tenors are doing. so he really had, not a "tech", but a natural way, with not anymore effort than speaking to an audience. what is amazing is that no-one else has taken a similar path.
Right on redsguy!!! Love this aria and CORELLI, (capitals for respect), smacked it out of the park. He sang with great beauty, but also with BALLS! A real man up there. Many great tenors thru time but Franco holds his place with any of them.
@redsguy -- Alas, to hell with technique means to hell with the voice. And in the case of Corelli the early loss of a great, great voice. Corelli had weird, old fashioned technique that involved forcing the larynx down to open the back of the throat. Yikes! It makes my throat hurt just to think of that. Despite this bad teaching, he sang wonderfully (when he allowed himself not to force) and with enormous feeling and commitment. His talent was huge. I wish he had had a teacher to match.
@sopranosd "…weird, old fashioned technique that involved forcing the larynx down to open the back of the throat." That is an incomplete, actually incorrect statement of his technique. If you look very carefully at videos, you'll see that Corelli allowed the larynx to "float" to whatever position was best. You are also incorrect that a teacher that made him do that. After time with Pavoni and Melocchi, he stopped working with teachers: they were "dangerous people" and a "plague to singers"
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FOR EVERYONE'S INFORMATION! CORELLI DIDN'T STOPPED SINGING! WHAT KIND OF TENOR WOULD WANT TO STOP SINGING IF HE REALLY IS THAT GRANDE MAESTRO? THE SAD TRUTH IS; CORELLI'S TECHNIQUE CAN'T HOLD THE PRESSURE ANYMORE! IT'S NOT CORELLI WHO STOPPED, IT'S HIS VOICE THAT IS RUINED BY THE WRONG TECHNIQUE! AND THAT IS, THE TECHNIQUE OF USING THE THROAT AND NOT THE MASQUERA! YOU GUYS MUST SEE ALFREDO KRAUS's VIDEOS SO YOUR POOR MINDS SHALL BE EXPOSED ON WHAT A REAL GRANDE MAESTRO CAN DO ON AND OFF STAGE!
FOR EVERYONE'S INFORMATION! CORELLI DIDN'T STOPPED SINGING! WHAT KIND OF TENOR WOULD WANT TO STOP SINGING IF HE REALLY IS THAT GRANDE MAESTRO? THE SAD TRUTH IS; CORELLI'S TECHNIQUE CAN'T HOLD THE PRESSURE ANYMORE! IT'S NOT CORELLI WHO STOPPED, IT'S HIS VOICE THAT IS RUINED BY THE WRONG TECHNIQUE! AND THAT IS, THE TECHNIQUE OF USING THE THROAT AND NOT THE MASQUERA! YOU GUYS MUST SEE ALFREDO KRAUS's VIDEOS SO YOUR POOR MINDS SHALL BE EXPOSED ON WHAT A REAL GRANDE MAESTRO CAN DO ON AND OF STAGE!
Why are you shouting? You seem to be totally obsessed with Corelli. What has he done to you? Is this a mission or what? If you don't like Corelli feel free to listen to another tenor, to Kraus if you like. What you are writing on the Corelli videos are so ignorant of facts and biased that there would be no sense in correcting. Your favourite tenor won't seem to be greater by abusing other great tenors.
Corelli had excellent technique, extraordinary breath support, great high notes, power, control. His voice was in fine shape when he quit because he was tired of the stress of performing. Concert appearances from around 1980 show the voice still intact.
comoparing Kraus and Corelli is foolish, They were both masters of their respective fachs. Kraus's light lyric voice allowed him to sing well right into his 70's I heard him give recitals in covent garden and at the barbican and he was wonderful. However, he was lightweight who didnt burn himself when he sang. Corelli on the other hand mastered a laryngeal technique that produced a noise of white hot intensity that did burn up faster. Lets stop critcising the gods but instead enjoy their gifts.
Don't know what to say, but want to say something...He's (or rather was :( regrettably ) so amazing. And his voice - I love the voice - was so so beautiful!!! IMO one of most beautiful tenors ever. - Just had to say it...
corelli hace ke me emosione xk el esta sintiendo lo ke canta y eso nos lo transmite a nosotros, en esta aria c despide de su madre xk sabe ke morira, y es increible como canta sobre todo sus agudos impresionantes ke superan a la orquesta, ¡¡¡bravo corelli!!! bravo
Heaven.....where did it all go? where is the elegant, calm and focused opera of today? Non lo vedo piu. Is it me, or does it now seem to be an opera world full of frantic star seekers?
Whoever says Corelli didn't have much singing studies is wrong. He was obsessed with voice. Even though his experience at the conservatory was bad(not unusual) he obviously knew what he was doing. Its a misnomer to assume that he is only a natural singer. Check out the bel canto society and you can hear is interviews about techinique. He was a very intelligent and thoughtful artist. Saying that his voice is natural is like saying that someone could make a Stradivarius by accident.
The amazing thing about this video is that it is just a bloke in a suit singing a song in a studio, with no gimmicks or cheap effects yet the experience even as a little screen on the you tube site is stupendous. One feels transformed and transcended by such an experience. This is the best Corelli clip.
Domingo fine voice but top on high B's at times is tight and squeezed, never heard Corelli wobble, maybe scoops but like him best as Calaf or in Aida. Not many true Spinto's around today.
Bergonzi and Bjoerling where lyric tenors like Pav. that could sing some spinto roles (lyric spinto perhaps) but Tucker, Corelli,Domingo,Heppner where Spinto tenors and could sing some more dramatic roles, heard Bergonzi in Aida, voice was fine but rather small and light for the role, same for Bjorling but Tucker, Corelli where better for that role, Del Monaco also, a dramatic, great Otello, also Martinelli and Slezak. Pav. was not good in Aida in Calif. or Otello in Chicago
only the best turiidu ever...corelli was NOT LIKE tucker,domingo...are you nuts? Bergonzi a spinto?--no,a lyric who could make it to the end of his part. most tenors shout,strain,bury their sound, squeeze and chew[licitra] or put it in the nose. Not FC. Corelli---heroico/early verdi,bellini, or spinto dramatico,ring without nasality, try to do that! it is a real technique,that no-one gets today.
Totally agree with you... I will take appart to Tucker but DOmingo is a Lirico as BErgonzi. NOt because they sung spinto roles they are spinto tenors! People belives that. Pavarotti have an Otello recording with Solti... he was not a voice for Otello...neither Radames, but he sung it. He was a great Leggero. The way of the voice erving the mnusic is another question. BUt spinto voice... here is one in Corelli.
Wonderful. He didn`t have too much singing studies, nor a perfect technique (vibrato was his biggest problem). But, his very masculine voice and solid high register plus the passion he put in scene made him unforgettable.
Franco Corelli, beautiful his voice shakes you from the insides......if he was sings today every woman would be at his feet...what passion...he would never be without love.....
I saw him many times at the Met. He was emotional, he had one of the largest voices to ever grace the operatic stage, yet he was capable of the most beautiful pianissimi and dimuendi. The critics often complained that he held notes too long. Well, he had amazing lung power and voice control and the audience loved it. As Bernstein said, he held the note in Victoria, Victoria till Scarpia needed a shave. He made his performance marvelously dramatic.
He quit 55, he died 82...... Can you imagine he had to go thru all that crap of yours all these years????????? Remember that: Del Monaco still have is name on the list because of Othelo..... THAT IS ALLL!!!!!
Corelli was a spinto tenor (like Bergonzi, Tucker, and Domingo), with a heavier and more powerful voice than a lyric (like Gigli, Kraus, Pavarotti, Carreras, Di Stefano), but not dark or baritonal like a dramatic tenor (Caruso, Del Monaco, Giacomini, Vickers). Corelli sang both heavier roles (Radames, Don Alvaro, Don Carlo) and lighter roles (Werther, Romeo, Rodolfo), but not fullout dramatic roles such as Otello, Samson, and Tristan.
Mr. Samurai9, Domingo and BErgonzi could be spinto tenors just if they are capable to reborn! They sung spointo roles but it doesn´t means that they are spinto tenors.
This is a quote from Rudolf Bing on page 87 of the 1974 book, "The Tenors":
"The tenor with a secure top exerts a sexual fascination on people, not just women, men too. The best tenor has a quality, a timbre, that's essentially a sexual stimulant--that is why they are so highly paid."
Is this your so-called proof? There is nothing in that interview that could make you think so. Your remark is proof merely of your way of thinking being ill.
Corelli's & del Monaco's voice were VERY similar in weight, only that del Monaco at about 1950 decided to take the low-larynx thing to the extreme and making his voice overly dark and loud.
You can hear what I'm talking about when listening to EARLY del Monaco recordings:
now that I listen to it again, I must say del Monaco sounds almost as light as later GIGLI there, lol.
Now talk again of del Monaco being dramatic but Corelli not.
I think both were not fully dramatic tenors (as there are much heavier tenors than both), but maybe something between spinto and dramatic. Voices do not fully adhere to Fach systems which human minds invented, anyway.
I totally agree with your informed and educated comments. In their youth they were silmiar Del Monaco's leagacy is a wonderful if vulgar and affected Otello. Corelli's legacy is best heard as Raoul in les huganots or in the bel canto operas (Polliuto for example) where his virile elememtal voice blows the usual tenorinos who inhabit this world off the stage. In this respect he is the 'male Callas' Del Monaco could never have done that whereas Corelli could have sung the moor.
This guy fleville had written this absurd assertation to one of my Corelli-videos too. After deleting his post he came here. What for? Corelli was NOT gay. Stop writing nasty lies about artists.
LOL had I only read that before all my effort to put the link to the MDM recording there... I'd have seen I'll waste my time since fleville obviously doesn't know what the **** he is talking about.
I believe that we should classify Corelli as a true spinto. I have never associated his bright tone with that of a true dramatic (Vinay, Vickers, Del Monaco, etc)
As far as the comment about him being subtle as a barn door, forget that. This voice was such an incredible force of nature, I don't care what he was singing or whether he was subtle or not. We haven't heard another voice even close to Corelli's since. I really wish we would.
Agreed: the voice is a force of nature. In this one person, an astonishing number of gifts were combined, and a package like this comes about so rarely, due to fortunate and weird gene combinations, that we are not likely to hear a voice like his again, even in this century.
(And if a voice like that DID suddenly appear, what would be the response among the quibblers?)
Che dire???? Io non ho più udito un Manrico, un Alvaro, un Turiddu, uno Chenier o un Calaf così... Per non parlare di Radames, il timbro eroico, squillante di Corelli è proprio del guerriero che va a vincere la guerra contro Amonasro... Stupendo e commovente
What wonderful music this is. The swooping? Is this attack legitimate, an affectation or what? At least one singing coach I knew would have smacked his wrist Lovely, lovely voice but subtle as a barn door.
If you could sing like Franco Corelli, most singing coaches would let you get away with the occasional swoops. Corelli's singing is is musically impeccable by the strictest standards. People whose taste runs against his singing, are, to me, tasteless.
Melchior, of course, started as a baritone and then "became" a heldontenor, or a tenore robusto. And Caruso, what was he? Maybe a tenore di grazia at first, then what, a spinto who sang Samson and could have sung Otello, or a pushed-up baritone? Vickers, too, how would he be categorized? In other words, it's not such a definite process.
I think that most of the dramatic tenors start and end as baritons. Caruso was also a bariton in the boy choir. Domingo will sing in a bariton role, will he not?
You may be right in a strict sense. But, of course, singers do not always sing roles that they are equipped to sing, or "supposed" to sing. This whole thing with labeling voice-types is a tricky business. Would you call Gigli, who had tremendous success in Andrea Chenier, a spinto, or a lyric-spinto, or a tenore di grazie?
You're probably right about the beauty of Corelli's tone. It just never appealed to me, at least not as much as the beauty of some other tenors' voices, such as Gigli's, Bjorling's, and Caruso's. Almost everything is relative and also subjective. I also saw Corelli in the theatre, and, as I stated, his excellence as a singer is apparent, and his voice does have a certain beauty but not at the level of those I mentioned.
I had the privilege to hear him on the stage on three occasions, in Tosca, Turandot and Trovatore, and each time I left the theatre quite shaken by the superb beauty of his voice in both quantity and quality, and by the commanding physical presence he had. Unforgettable. God bless him!
A true dramatic tenor, a powerful and commanding voice, perhaps too much. The tone of Corelli's voice never appealed to me (even though I recognize his greatness as a singer), and for this particular aria I prefer the sweeter yet impassioned voices of the lyric tenors Gigli and Bjorling.
Sorry, but if was a 'true dramatic' tenor as you say, then he would have sung 'dramatic' roles- such as Otello, Samson, and others as Delmonaco and even Melchior had sung. He was in the pure sense, a spinto, who chose to undertake romantic roles such as Romeo(an abomination), Chenier(the best), Adrianna Lecouvre, and Calaf( also the best). Sorry, but if he was a dramatic he would have sung those roles!!
I cried
piojoloco14 3 weeks ago
More an more I am becoming a Corelli fan. This guy is truly amazing.
babystinky 1 month ago
tenor of the half century-he had it all.Such a shame he couldn't embrace his talent without such stressful fear.
vickersman 1 month ago
bravissimo!
francotarika 2 months ago
beyond words and compare
SpeedyDamian 6 months ago
The most talented and handsome tenor of all time!
MrCollicelli 6 months ago
@MrCollicelli absolutely right!!!
mozart200657 4 months ago
Dario Franco Corelli looks better when he is older because he wears his hair longer .
hazelssister 7 months ago
Wow. I always read that Franco was extremely nervous on stage but I never knew that it came from his wife. Such a fantastic tenor, one of my favourites..
ronaldo190172 7 months ago
è straordinario!
awamura8 11 months ago
Magnificent...
sirenadellopera 11 months ago
I was in the box just above the stage where Correlli and Tebaldi sang in the Met's tour of TOSCA. Never before or since have I been so shocked into awe when just 15 feet below he sang the Recondita with the metallic ringing voice of an athlete, flinging these soaring high notes up & out into the house. We were spellbound then, but when he reached the 2nd high note from the end he just held it forever. We felt ourselves levitate as the world stopped. It still rings.
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andyrawn 1 year ago
two types of people in this world, pure sicilian and then the rest.
STC120A 1 year ago
Difficile trovare in'interpretazione migliore di questa...grande Corelli
federic017 1 year ago
Has anyone heard of Richard White?
Kushami17 1 year ago
The very best tenor at that time NOBODY was as exciting to watch and hear--bravissimp Franco Corelli
TenorHighD 1 year ago
he is really great:-) i like this very much.
eurydike 1 year ago 2
Beauty,power and virility and wonderful style.
The most exciting tenor ever to enter a stage.
klokheten 1 year ago 3
sopranosd--
hahaha...you know not whereof you speak. He was fine until he started listening to his wife, Loretta. She's the one who messed up his fabulous technique, and his head.
jojojo943 1 year ago
@jojojo943 - Boy, is THAT ever the truth. Especially the messing up his head part. (I witnessed a very small incidence of this; a friend who knew him well told me it was much worse than what I'd seen.)
ksol1460tv 1 year ago
@ksol1460tv how did he messed up his head, explain plz im curious
striuncekf 1 year ago
@striuncekf - Soprano Eileen Farrell wrote in her book: "At intermission, his wife Loretta would barricade herself in his dressing room and scream at him, telling everything he'd done wrong. She didn't shut up even when we were on stage. It got so that I would try to avoid going to extreme stage left or right, no matter what the blocking called for, because Signora Corelli was always in the wings, yelling at her husband in Italian ..." This is exactly what it was like.
ksol1460tv 1 year ago
@ksol1460tv And she contributed greatly to his anxiety on stage. She should burn in hell. I met him in NY in the 1990s. I asked why he stopped singing so suddenly, not even to make digital recordings of songs etc. He told me "you have no idea how great the anxiety was when I sang on stage." So better to stop singing than become a slave to the audience "who would applaud anything Corelli sang, well or not. I didn't want to become like some of my colleagues." Better to leave on top!
marchesano 11 months ago
IF he's "old fashioned & weird", it certainly beats by a mile any "new fashioned & standard" punks & frauds that have come along since!!!
Evviva Corelli, Il Principe!!!!!
DonPaolissimo 1 year ago 7
I am a loyal Pavarotti fan, after hearing Corelli sing Cavalleria I was awed he has a great voice .BRAVO CORELLI. Nick
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It's ridiculous to criticize his technique, which was superb, magnificent, breathtaking. Name one other tenor who opened annually BOTH (!) the Met and La Scala seasons gloriously for so many years.
racheleleeba 1 year ago
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racheleleeba 1 year ago
Bravo Franco!
ericnj28 1 year ago 2
para mi corelli es de entre los mejores del siglo pasado , uno de los primeros si o si :D bella voz, excelente interpretacion... q gran spinto señores :D:D
cristianhmo 1 year ago
Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous!! No other tenor stands up to this talented man!
moanamona 1 year ago 4
magnificent franco unbeleavable in every way
gerry4339 1 year ago 3
I just love him. The absolute best for Italian opera.
r4ralph 1 year ago 5
Its funny....you listen to the orchestra and it sounds tinny because of the mike and equipment used then but Franco sounds unbelievable...... one can only imagine how good it actually sounded that day!!! Again....the Greatest Tenor ever!!! Bravo
Seatrumpet 2 years ago 4
BRAVO!
dblairosj 2 years ago 2
¡Que voz, que voz, que voz! Para mí Corelli es uno de los más grandes del siglo pasado.
deniasol 2 years ago 2
Just watched it again. Viene le pelle d'oca. This has to be one of the finest renditions of any operatic aria, ever! My goodness what a gifted singer was he.
FRANCO CORELLI!!!
joelweisberg 2 years ago 6
Sublime Corelli Grazie !
bodiloto 2 years ago 3
What a voice!!!!!!
124bjw 2 years ago 6
Wow! Thanks for posting this! Corelli is not from my generation, but he's always been my all-time favorite tenor. His voice just makes me melt. I have only seen dimunative pictures of him on record albums, with his face all made up and his body fully costumed.... and then there's that old Turandot album-pic in which he sort of looks like Boy George (not that that's a bad thing at all... luv ya Boy!) But I never realised what a truly & dashingly handsome man he was. !Que rico!
catsrgreatpeople 2 years ago 4
Thanks so much for posting. Amazing.
gratecourt 2 years ago
Caro FRANCO CORELLI:
Beauty and Talent of interpretation !!!
Beauty and Talent in every aspect !!!
To Forever Unrepeatable !!!
Thank you Very Much *operabeauty *for sharing with the World, This Beautiful Souvenir !!!
laonirica 2 years ago 14
He sounds assertive yet smooth.
nelgnhog 2 years ago
GREAT!!! This is amazing. BRAVO Maestro Corelli!!
rigcelli 2 years ago 3
INCROYABLE!!!!!!
SOPRATENOR 2 years ago 3
If you like FRANCO CORELLI check THE 30 TENORS in my playlist SUPER TENOR ARIAS ( including CLAUDIO SOTELO performing ARIA DEL CIRUJANO as a world première for YOU TUBE ) and tell me which one you prefer.
upatoia 2 years ago
Corelli was hugely gifted, that is clear. but let us not forget how hard he worked to become the great singer that he was. he was a tireless student of the voice and the art form,
BRAVO Corelli
ruffoite 2 years ago 5
I first hear franco with leontyne and karajan in carmen..on rca records...what a don jose.....and of course leontyne was stupendous in a mezzo voice part....franco rocks and is my all time macho tenor...cheers!!
r2d2lance 2 years ago 4
Yeah, forget the comparisons....Kraus, compared to Corelli in this role? Keep dreaming...they are worlds apart.
donerlich 2 years ago
Just Amazing!
I don't like uptight opera fan comparisons, but I do think it's upsetting that in the 60's you got to chose between listening to Del Monaco, Corelli, Bergonzi, Di Stefano, etc...and today, you just hope that the tenor does not crack in the upper register...
bsbsbs0101 3 years ago 5
Mainly because tenors are pushed into it it far too young and are often too light for the role. I think there is plenty talent out there that can do it but the organization around then needs to get better.
donerlich 2 years ago
I think it's environmental, it's something in the water, it's chemicals in the air and in our foods !!! That is why we have no tenors today !!!
viverito 2 years ago
Because of the social environmental,like the "Maestros" are ruining Bel-Canto.
Only loud and low taste...no more elegant and pure melody...
BeniaminoGigli 2 years ago
ccccccccccccccccccche bravo
yitali 3 years ago
the thing is---this is live and he is not pushing. his voice was not based on huge air and pressure or what many new tenors are doing. so he really had, not a "tech", but a natural way, with not anymore effort than speaking to an audience. what is amazing is that no-one else has taken a similar path.
btsg 3 years ago 5
To hell with technique and comparisons - he was CORELLI!! and there never was and never will be another dramatic tenor voice like his. JUST ENJOY!!
redsguy 3 years ago 31
Right on redsguy!!! Love this aria and CORELLI, (capitals for respect), smacked it out of the park. He sang with great beauty, but also with BALLS! A real man up there. Many great tenors thru time but Franco holds his place with any of them.
joelweisberg 2 years ago 4
@redsguy -- Alas, to hell with technique means to hell with the voice. And in the case of Corelli the early loss of a great, great voice. Corelli had weird, old fashioned technique that involved forcing the larynx down to open the back of the throat. Yikes! It makes my throat hurt just to think of that. Despite this bad teaching, he sang wonderfully (when he allowed himself not to force) and with enormous feeling and commitment. His talent was huge. I wish he had had a teacher to match.
sopranosd 1 year ago
@sopranosd "…weird, old fashioned technique that involved forcing the larynx down to open the back of the throat." That is an incomplete, actually incorrect statement of his technique. If you look very carefully at videos, you'll see that Corelli allowed the larynx to "float" to whatever position was best. You are also incorrect that a teacher that made him do that. After time with Pavoni and Melocchi, he stopped working with teachers: they were "dangerous people" and a "plague to singers"
orovalleydude 1 year ago 6
bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbravo~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
beten01 3 years ago
Okay I checked out Kraus and he is great. Thanks for the info. But Corelli will always be first in my heart.
Remy1957 3 years ago 2
que barbaro....simplemente increible
BBBBRRRRAAAAVVVVVOOOO CORELLI
palokkk 3 years ago
Para Recordar Siempre, y tener como Guía de los Nuevos aspirantes a Tenores Heróicos, si es que alguna vez, podremos tener la DICHA,de poder disfrutar de algún Gran Iluminado, que apenas se le acerque, en Maestría, Expresividad y Entrega!.
¡¡¡BRAVO POR SIEMPRE MAESTRO FRANCO CORELLI!!!
laonirica 3 years ago
Kraus was a good tenor... in his limited repertory.
psicotronico 3 years ago
magaria dsalian!!
ivanopera 3 years ago
tremendous!!!
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FOR EVERYONE'S INFORMATION! CORELLI DIDN'T STOPPED SINGING! WHAT KIND OF TENOR WOULD WANT TO STOP SINGING IF HE REALLY IS THAT GRANDE MAESTRO? THE SAD TRUTH IS; CORELLI'S TECHNIQUE CAN'T HOLD THE PRESSURE ANYMORE! IT'S NOT CORELLI WHO STOPPED, IT'S HIS VOICE THAT IS RUINED BY THE WRONG TECHNIQUE! AND THAT IS, THE TECHNIQUE OF USING THE THROAT AND NOT THE MASQUERA! YOU GUYS MUST SEE ALFREDO KRAUS's VIDEOS SO YOUR POOR MINDS SHALL BE EXPOSED ON WHAT A REAL GRANDE MAESTRO CAN DO ON AND OFF STAGE!
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bloydaage 3 years ago
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FOR EVERYONE'S INFORMATION! CORELLI DIDN'T STOPPED SINGING! WHAT KIND OF TENOR WOULD WANT TO STOP SINGING IF HE REALLY IS THAT GRANDE MAESTRO? THE SAD TRUTH IS; CORELLI'S TECHNIQUE CAN'T HOLD THE PRESSURE ANYMORE! IT'S NOT CORELLI WHO STOPPED, IT'S HIS VOICE THAT IS RUINED BY THE WRONG TECHNIQUE! AND THAT IS, THE TECHNIQUE OF USING THE THROAT AND NOT THE MASQUERA! YOU GUYS MUST SEE ALFREDO KRAUS's VIDEOS SO YOUR POOR MINDS SHALL BE EXPOSED ON WHAT A REAL GRANDE MAESTRO CAN DO ON AND OF STAGE!
krauskraus21 3 years ago
Why are you shouting? You seem to be totally obsessed with Corelli. What has he done to you? Is this a mission or what? If you don't like Corelli feel free to listen to another tenor, to Kraus if you like. What you are writing on the Corelli videos are so ignorant of facts and biased that there would be no sense in correcting. Your favourite tenor won't seem to be greater by abusing other great tenors.
neduddki21 3 years ago 5
Frankly, I really would not care how terrible my technique were if it allowed me to sing just like Corelli did.
64sembra 3 years ago 6
Corelli had excellent technique, extraordinary breath support, great high notes, power, control. His voice was in fine shape when he quit because he was tired of the stress of performing. Concert appearances from around 1980 show the voice still intact.
Samurai9 3 years ago 4
comoparing Kraus and Corelli is foolish, They were both masters of their respective fachs. Kraus's light lyric voice allowed him to sing well right into his 70's I heard him give recitals in covent garden and at the barbican and he was wonderful. However, he was lightweight who didnt burn himself when he sang. Corelli on the other hand mastered a laryngeal technique that produced a noise of white hot intensity that did burn up faster. Lets stop critcising the gods but instead enjoy their gifts.
tdp10gh 3 years ago 6
Mr. Corelli still rules.... and will continue to do so for decades to come....
earlph 3 years ago 2
Don't know what to say, but want to say something...He's (or rather was :( regrettably ) so amazing. And his voice - I love the voice - was so so beautiful!!! IMO one of most beautiful tenors ever. - Just had to say it...
ipscale 3 years ago 3
IT;S A KING OF ALL TENORS
tenorul 3 years ago 3
Wonderful wonderful WONDERFUL !!!!
judymaster 3 years ago
I am totally in love!!
operaf209 3 years ago
il tenore più emozionante ed intenso del mondo
maryp1984 3 years ago 2
Ed il più bello della storia dell'opera..
Nina
Ankhsnammon 3 years ago
corelli hace ke me emosione xk el esta sintiendo lo ke canta y eso nos lo transmite a nosotros, en esta aria c despide de su madre xk sabe ke morira, y es increible como canta sobre todo sus agudos impresionantes ke superan a la orquesta, ¡¡¡bravo corelli!!! bravo
josuecorelli 3 years ago
INCREIBLES LOS AGUDOS DE CORELLI
nemoorino 3 years ago
i'm in love :)
carlissima28 3 years ago 2
And who not?
I would have done all with him...without any shame...
ankhsnammon
Ankhsnammon 3 years ago
Corelli at his finest!!!
goldenthroat86 3 years ago 3
顶尖的Corelli...在声音上技压群雄...创造了他自己的一个黄金时代......
nuendox 3 years ago
Heaven.....where did it all go? where is the elegant, calm and focused opera of today? Non lo vedo piu. Is it me, or does it now seem to be an opera world full of frantic star seekers?
vitroz 3 years ago 3
Whoever says Corelli didn't have much singing studies is wrong. He was obsessed with voice. Even though his experience at the conservatory was bad(not unusual) he obviously knew what he was doing. Its a misnomer to assume that he is only a natural singer. Check out the bel canto society and you can hear is interviews about techinique. He was a very intelligent and thoughtful artist. Saying that his voice is natural is like saying that someone could make a Stradivarius by accident.
mosifchi 3 years ago 6
The amazing thing about this video is that it is just a bloke in a suit singing a song in a studio, with no gimmicks or cheap effects yet the experience even as a little screen on the you tube site is stupendous. One feels transformed and transcended by such an experience. This is the best Corelli clip.
tdp10gh 3 years ago 4
YOA ARE SO RIGHT.
emeric1952 2 years ago
Domingo fine voice but top on high B's at times is tight and squeezed, never heard Corelli wobble, maybe scoops but like him best as Calaf or in Aida. Not many true Spinto's around today.
pearlmuth3 3 years ago
Yes, Corelli scooped on almost everything, it was one of his bad habits. But alas, will we be able to able to hear such glorious scooping again?
GermanOperaSinger 3 years ago 3
Bergonzi and Bjoerling where lyric tenors like Pav. that could sing some spinto roles (lyric spinto perhaps) but Tucker, Corelli,Domingo,Heppner where Spinto tenors and could sing some more dramatic roles, heard Bergonzi in Aida, voice was fine but rather small and light for the role, same for Bjorling but Tucker, Corelli where better for that role, Del Monaco also, a dramatic, great Otello, also Martinelli and Slezak. Pav. was not good in Aida in Calif. or Otello in Chicago
pearlmuth3 3 years ago
Bravo Corelli,bravisimooo!
tete28akira 4 years ago 2
only the best turiidu ever...corelli was NOT LIKE tucker,domingo...are you nuts? Bergonzi a spinto?--no,a lyric who could make it to the end of his part. most tenors shout,strain,bury their sound, squeeze and chew[licitra] or put it in the nose. Not FC. Corelli---heroico/early verdi,bellini, or spinto dramatico,ring without nasality, try to do that! it is a real technique,that no-one gets today.
btsg 4 years ago 3
Totally agree with you... I will take appart to Tucker but DOmingo is a Lirico as BErgonzi. NOt because they sung spinto roles they are spinto tenors! People belives that. Pavarotti have an Otello recording with Solti... he was not a voice for Otello...neither Radames, but he sung it. He was a great Leggero. The way of the voice erving the mnusic is another question. BUt spinto voice... here is one in Corelli.
aguacun 3 years ago
Corelli is my preferred tenor, but this role was sung only in 17 performances in his life.9 times between 1962-64 and 8 times between 1970 and 74.
ganafrancisco 3 years ago
Wonderful. He didn`t have too much singing studies, nor a perfect technique (vibrato was his biggest problem). But, his very masculine voice and solid high register plus the passion he put in scene made him unforgettable.
silmut 4 years ago
Franco Corelli, beautiful his voice shakes you from the insides......if he was sings today every woman would be at his feet...what passion...he would never be without love.....
nocompasion 4 years ago 3
senza parole ..... grande Franco
AleCagliari 4 years ago 4
I can not claim that I understood what was said, however I found this unique performace incredibly moving.WOW
shima6ri 4 years ago 2
I saw him many times at the Met. He was emotional, he had one of the largest voices to ever grace the operatic stage, yet he was capable of the most beautiful pianissimi and dimuendi. The critics often complained that he held notes too long. Well, he had amazing lung power and voice control and the audience loved it. As Bernstein said, he held the note in Victoria, Victoria till Scarpia needed a shave. He made his performance marvelously dramatic.
pmuzio 4 years ago 6
He quit 55, he died 82...... Can you imagine he had to go thru all that crap of yours all these years????????? Remember that: Del Monaco still have is name on the list because of Othelo..... THAT IS ALLL!!!!!
daguinho007 4 years ago
when and where was he born? Where and when did he leave us?
Nhlvrnfla 4 years ago
He was born in Ancona (Italy) 1921, and died in Milan 2003.
tehen162 4 years ago
breathtaking.
I saw him live in Boston many years ago. I knew he was wonderful, and this only re-inforces it.
Bravo. Bravo. Bravo!!!!!!!
Nhlvrnfla 4 years ago
Corelli was a spinto tenor (like Bergonzi, Tucker, and Domingo), with a heavier and more powerful voice than a lyric (like Gigli, Kraus, Pavarotti, Carreras, Di Stefano), but not dark or baritonal like a dramatic tenor (Caruso, Del Monaco, Giacomini, Vickers). Corelli sang both heavier roles (Radames, Don Alvaro, Don Carlo) and lighter roles (Werther, Romeo, Rodolfo), but not fullout dramatic roles such as Otello, Samson, and Tristan.
Samurai9 4 years ago
Mr. Samurai9, Domingo and BErgonzi could be spinto tenors just if they are capable to reborn! They sung spointo roles but it doesn´t means that they are spinto tenors.
aguacun 3 years ago
Great voice, and so much hotter than most opera singers! He must have been quite the heart throb!
kourtknee26 4 years ago
Simply Perfect.
marctenor 4 years ago 4
Franco Corelli was in a class all his own.
One of the greatest tenors of all time
who sang with alot of passion. May he rest
in peace.
Fegen 4 years ago 7
stop arguing! he was GREAT e basta! noone today can do this aria live with such ease... ahhhhhhhhhhhh... lovely listening.
cleanears 4 years ago 6
MUY BUENO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
maxmarce 4 years ago
This is magnificent beyond words. Corelli is one of the few singers whose singing actually physically excites me!
billyguns2 4 years ago
This is a quote from Rudolf Bing on page 87 of the 1974 book, "The Tenors":
"The tenor with a secure top exerts a sexual fascination on people, not just women, men too. The best tenor has a quality, a timbre, that's essentially a sexual stimulant--that is why they are so highly paid."
Could be something to it.
poivriere 4 years ago
This is very interesting and also true. I haven't been familiar with this book of Bing.
tehen162 4 years ago
tehen, if you are thinking of purchasing "The Tenors," that Bing quote is in the chapter on Corelli.
poivriere 4 years ago
Thanks, I am indeed thinking of purchasing it.
tehen162 4 years ago
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He was gay
fleville 4 years ago
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Do you have proof of this? I know Bastianini was gay; pergaps he and Franco were doing it. Whew!
billyguns2 4 years ago
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Bastianini was gay too but I don't know anything between Ettore and Corelli.
I know Corelli had an affair with a southamerican male dancer.If you check the new interview that tehen162 uploaded you will notice he was gay
fleville 4 years ago
Is this your so-called proof? There is nothing in that interview that could make you think so. Your remark is proof merely of your way of thinking being ill.
tehen162 4 years ago
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I think your agressive reaction is proof merely of your way of thinking being ill.
I only made a commentary Franco was gay and he was.Artists are like ordinary people
fleville 4 years ago
That has nothing to do with the great singer he was but he was not a dramatic tenor.
Dramatic tenor is Ramon Vinay, Jon Vickers
fleville 4 years ago
Mario Del Monaco is dramatic tenor .
Not Corelli
fleville 4 years ago
Del Monaco's and Corelli's voices were very similar in timbre, strengh, weight. There is no sense in that you have written.
tehen162 4 years ago 2
The color of the voice is what classify the different registers.Del Monaco voice is very different.Corelli is a clear tenor
fleville 4 years ago
is not color a synonom for timbre?
MusashiTzu 4 years ago
Corelli's & del Monaco's voice were VERY similar in weight, only that del Monaco at about 1950 decided to take the low-larynx thing to the extreme and making his voice overly dark and loud.
You can hear what I'm talking about when listening to EARLY del Monaco recordings:
grandi-tenori*com[slash]articles[slash]livigni[slash]melocchi/audio[slash]01_delmonaco_oparadiso_1948*wma
replace all * with . and all [slash] with /
GentleSavage1 4 years ago
now that I listen to it again, I must say del Monaco sounds almost as light as later GIGLI there, lol.
Now talk again of del Monaco being dramatic but Corelli not.
I think both were not fully dramatic tenors (as there are much heavier tenors than both), but maybe something between spinto and dramatic. Voices do not fully adhere to Fach systems which human minds invented, anyway.
GentleSavage1 4 years ago
for the LINK to the recording,
if you replace all things I said, there still has a space character crept in as it seems. Remove the space in "melocch i", so that it says melocchi.
At of the moment that I'm writing, access to the site seems compromised due to maintenance.
GentleSavage1 4 years ago
I totally agree with your informed and educated comments. In their youth they were silmiar Del Monaco's leagacy is a wonderful if vulgar and affected Otello. Corelli's legacy is best heard as Raoul in les huganots or in the bel canto operas (Polliuto for example) where his virile elememtal voice blows the usual tenorinos who inhabit this world off the stage. In this respect he is the 'male Callas' Del Monaco could never have done that whereas Corelli could have sung the moor.
tdp10gh 3 years ago 4
This guy fleville had written this absurd assertation to one of my Corelli-videos too. After deleting his post he came here. What for? Corelli was NOT gay. Stop writing nasty lies about artists.
tehen162 4 years ago
Nice to watch him great for listening, a completed tenor!!! Corelli and Pavarotti are my favorite italian tenors
gonzalojosevb 4 years ago
1961 was the year of my birth - and no greater dramatic tenor ever sang than this man. The voice is absolutely peerless!
cyfieithydd 4 years ago 3
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Corelli was a lyric tenor.The greatest dramatic tenor was Ramon Vinay
fleville 4 years ago
Why not light lyric or countertenor? Sorry, you are totally wrong. Corelli was the incarnation of a spinto/dramatic tenor.
tehen162 4 years ago 3
"Corelli was a lyric tenor"
LOL had I only read that before all my effort to put the link to the MDM recording there... I'd have seen I'll waste my time since fleville obviously doesn't know what the **** he is talking about.
GentleSavage1 4 years ago
This is Corelli at his best! Incredible!
mltube 4 years ago 4
REPLY-oct.2007 I HEARD Corelli sing TURANDOT In the 1970's. A ringing truly great voice. ONE of a kind.
majic11pg 4 years ago
The greatest tenor ever! Bravo!
zaninif 4 years ago 8
When will this world have a 2nd coming of Corelli?? He is magnifico!!
primadonna82 4 years ago
simply Fantastic!!
badocan78 4 years ago
I believe that we should classify Corelli as a true spinto. I have never associated his bright tone with that of a true dramatic (Vinay, Vickers, Del Monaco, etc)
As far as the comment about him being subtle as a barn door, forget that. This voice was such an incredible force of nature, I don't care what he was singing or whether he was subtle or not. We haven't heard another voice even close to Corelli's since. I really wish we would.
moorfan1 4 years ago 4
Agreed: the voice is a force of nature. In this one person, an astonishing number of gifts were combined, and a package like this comes about so rarely, due to fortunate and weird gene combinations, that we are not likely to hear a voice like his again, even in this century.
(And if a voice like that DID suddenly appear, what would be the response among the quibblers?)
poivriere 4 years ago 7
Che dire???? Io non ho più udito un Manrico, un Alvaro, un Turiddu, uno Chenier o un Calaf così... Per non parlare di Radames, il timbro eroico, squillante di Corelli è proprio del guerriero che va a vincere la guerra contro Amonasro... Stupendo e commovente
occhioverde71 4 years ago
Mir.or Mrs.)Operabeauty...most than ever this title for this clip!!!
Corelli sunthetized beauty,talent,handsomeness..presence....musicality and expressivity...
God!Where are today singers like him?
Ankhsnammon(Nina)
Ankhsnammon 4 years ago
What wonderful music this is. The swooping? Is this attack legitimate, an affectation or what? At least one singing coach I knew would have smacked his wrist Lovely, lovely voice but subtle as a barn door.
Can belto not bel canto.
jblo9 4 years ago
If you could sing like Franco Corelli, most singing coaches would let you get away with the occasional swoops. Corelli's singing is is musically impeccable by the strictest standards. People whose taste runs against his singing, are, to me, tasteless.
trombonistry 4 years ago 2
For sure, Corelli is not a light lyric tenor like Schipa or De Lucia, although the latter particularly sang verismo roles as well as Rossini.
meltzerboy 4 years ago
How well did Rossini sing these?
jblo9 4 years ago
Melchior, of course, started as a baritone and then "became" a heldontenor, or a tenore robusto. And Caruso, what was he? Maybe a tenore di grazia at first, then what, a spinto who sang Samson and could have sung Otello, or a pushed-up baritone? Vickers, too, how would he be categorized? In other words, it's not such a definite process.
meltzerboy 4 years ago 2
I think that most of the dramatic tenors start and end as baritons. Caruso was also a bariton in the boy choir. Domingo will sing in a bariton role, will he not?
Aetion 4 years ago
You may be right in a strict sense. But, of course, singers do not always sing roles that they are equipped to sing, or "supposed" to sing. This whole thing with labeling voice-types is a tricky business. Would you call Gigli, who had tremendous success in Andrea Chenier, a spinto, or a lyric-spinto, or a tenore di grazie?
meltzerboy 4 years ago
You're probably right about the beauty of Corelli's tone. It just never appealed to me, at least not as much as the beauty of some other tenors' voices, such as Gigli's, Bjorling's, and Caruso's. Almost everything is relative and also subjective. I also saw Corelli in the theatre, and, as I stated, his excellence as a singer is apparent, and his voice does have a certain beauty but not at the level of those I mentioned.
meltzerboy 4 years ago
I had the privilege to hear him on the stage on three occasions, in Tosca, Turandot and Trovatore, and each time I left the theatre quite shaken by the superb beauty of his voice in both quantity and quality, and by the commanding physical presence he had. Unforgettable. God bless him!
Pravilad 4 years ago
A true dramatic tenor, a powerful and commanding voice, perhaps too much. The tone of Corelli's voice never appealed to me (even though I recognize his greatness as a singer), and for this particular aria I prefer the sweeter yet impassioned voices of the lyric tenors Gigli and Bjorling.
meltzerboy 4 years ago
Sorry, but if was a 'true dramatic' tenor as you say, then he would have sung 'dramatic' roles- such as Otello, Samson, and others as Delmonaco and even Melchior had sung. He was in the pure sense, a spinto, who chose to undertake romantic roles such as Romeo(an abomination), Chenier(the best), Adrianna Lecouvre, and Calaf( also the best). Sorry, but if he was a dramatic he would have sung those roles!!
porsche4277 4 years ago 2
Quien dirige? Corelli magnifico
oclhie 4 years ago
Grandissimo Franco Corelli !!!!
Assieme a Bergonzi il migliore disempre!!
Maxvalz 4 years ago
Incredible! All the other tenors seem so tame once you hear Franco. Unmatchable passion and power. You believe his pain.
greenstboy 4 years ago
Are there any Franco Corelli websites out there? I am now a fan of his after listening to him sing.
soprano123 4 years ago
what's the name of this aria?
MarijoTenor 4 years ago
Mamma quel vino e generoso (or addio alla madre)
Kallistono 4 years ago
Addio alla Madre ("Mamma, quel vino è generoso") dall'opera Cavalleria Rusticana di Pietro Mascagni
maito62 4 years ago
Bravissimo! Great Corelli!
yunshanwanli 4 years ago
i cant believe a tenor can actually go so high and low
luixander19 4 years ago
an unmatched combination of sheer voice, expression and physical
presence
adremoid 4 years ago