"Nessun dorma" - Turandot - Franco Corelli

Another live record of Turandot aria:
"Nessun dorma"

with

Franco Corelli, tenor

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Music

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• franco
• corelli
• nessun
• dorma
• live
• turandot
• puccini

[Aetion]

Where is it this live record from, pls? Yes, Corelli mastered thiis role.

[TurandotFanatic]

@Aetion Metropolitan Opera House, 1961.

[TurandotFanatic]

Sorry, I used the wrong word. Where I said knowledge, I would say wisdom. Wisdom for music, the genius born with that. The genius born playing, singing, just few years of study and is made a genius. Who didn't born with that, probably will study the entire life, and won't reach the point, as well as the genius.

[bosbriguy]

i don't care what anyone thinks, He had more talent in one high c than any of you jealous critics will ever have period.

[Walter1950]

Thanks be to God or just to nature for giving us this beautiful voice that we all have the great joy of hearing today.

[robertwbecker]

Yeah, well if you want to know what he was about listen to the audience at the end of the aria!!!!!!!!

[frankmaiorana66]

To give you an idea of how important Franco Corelli and Birgit Nilsson were to the opera world. I know this performance was NOT at the Met. However, the Met staged Turandot for the first time after a lengthy absence in 1961 for they finally had the two principals to do it justice, Birgit Nillson and Franco Corelli.

[babystinky]

Franco Corelli had that incredible technique, the lowered larynx which allowed such power to come through.

[grig035]

@TurandotFanatic Wrong, this one is not 1961. It's the Opening Night Turandot at La Scala, from December 7, 1964, under Gianandrea Gavazzeni. I found another upload of it at /watch?v=MQUrH9QL7Ro , where the clip is given full identification, and when I listened to it, it was absolutely identical, with one exception -- your transfer is better!! So I am deeply grateful yours is still up. It's the best "Nessun dorma" I've yet heard from the best Calaf I've yet heard.

[Bjoerrelli]

@brunobrandy I said that not as a statement of Paul Potts being comparable to an Icon like Franco Corelli in any way, but to tell that taste or lack of taste is very personal.

[brunobrandy]

@Bjoerrelli Paul Potts?? OMG!

[brunobrandy]

I have sung opera and studied voice for the better part of the past 50 years.

My friend and mentor who was a superb spinto tenor who I sang with for years

sung at the Met during the 60s for three years. He had the privilege to be on

stage for 24 of Franco's performances and said hands down the greatest

tenor of the past century. His dynamic voice has never been matched. He

had his occasional off nights, but generally was superb. He's missed as

he's been gone now for about 8 years.

[tdeane34]

@GKFC This is probably his best version and it was certainly a very good night. "Pitchy" is a silly term made up on American Idiol by idiots that don't know anything about music. The correct term is out of tune or flat or sharp which Corelli certainly is not in this recording. "Pitchy" is used by people that don't have the ears to be able to distinguish flat from sharp, so they just say it was "pitchy". Idiots!

[4cups]

4 people WISH they had Corelli's voice.