Franco Corelli
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Biography
[Edit]"Thrilling" is the word that inevitably seems to come up in discussion of Franco Corelli, whether in reference to his powerful, immediately identifiable voice or his matinee idol good looks. (He was one of the few tenors whose appearance was actually enhanced by Renaissance style tights, and after one such appearance was nicknamed "The Golden Calves.") While he was no stylist, or rather, sang everything "Corelli style," altering rhythms to suit his voice, inserting or prolonging high notes whenever he felt like it, and almost never displaying a high level of finesse, nuance, or sensivitiy to phrasing, for his admirers, he was the quintessence of operatic excitement.
Rather unusually, he did not come from a musical family, discovered his own talent relatively late in life, and was almost completely self taught. He had studied for an engineering career, but friends encouraged him to think about music, and he briefly studied at the Pesaro Conservatory when he was in his early twenties. In 1951, he won the Maggio Musicale competition, but decided to discontinue formal musical studies shortly afterwards. Instead, he spent his time listening to recordings of great tenors of the past, particularly Caruso, Gigli, and Lauri-Volpi, in the repertoire which he himself hoped to sing. He made his operatic debut as Don Jose in a production of Carmen in Spoleto, also during 1951.
Despite not having the network of teachers that many students have, he quickly grew in reputation, appeared in a television production of Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, and made his La Scala debut in Spontini's La Vestale as Licinio, in 1954. His Covent Garden debut in 1957 was as Cavaradossi in Puccini's Tosca, and his Metropolitan Opera debut as Manrico in 1961. While he had a definite "bleat" in his voice during his early years that led to some critics dubbing him "PeCorelli" (Italian for "goat"), he did learn to overcome that, and also to add a ravishing pianissimo to his singing, though his phrasing remained more or less crude. Over the coming years, La Scala and the Met were the houses where he appeared most frequently. He constantly suffered from stage fright, and many of his divo antics, offstage and on, might have stemmed from that, but on stage, he cut a dashing figure, though somewhat more inclined to pose than to act. In one memorable staging of Don Carlo, feeling that Boris Christoff, the bass singing King Philip was getting too much audience attention, he provoked a genuine sword fight with the no less feisty Christoff during the auto-da-fe scene, until a brave supernumerary (spear carrier) physically separated the two. In yet another staging of the same scene and opera, he didn't come out onto the stage until long after his cue; he had been in the middle of a dispute backstage, and wanted to win that before he came out to sing.
He sang a wide variety of roles from the Italian and French repertoire, including several works that had been relative obscurities, such as Meyerbeer's Les Hugenots and Donizetti's Poliuto. Appropriately, considering how he learned to sing, he made several recordings, mostly for EMI/Angel. Among the recordings that capture him at his best are an Andrea Chenier, conducted by Santini (EMI CDS5 65287-2) and a selection of arias and songs (EMI Double Forte CZS 569530 2.)
Title: Legendary Performances (CD2)
Artist: Renata Tebaldi, Ettore Bastianini, Franco Corelli
Genre: Classical
Title: The Magnificent Tenor (Remastered Historical Recording)
Artist: Franco Corelli, Arturo Basile
Genre: Opera
Title: Operatic Arias by Franco Corelli
Artist: Franco Corelli, Philharmonia Orchestra, Franco Ferraris
Genre: Opera
Title: Legendary Performances (CD1)
Artist: Renata Tebaldi, Ettore Bastianini, Franco Corelli
Genre: Classical
Title: Legendary Performances (CD3)
Artist: Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Joan Sutherland, Franco Corelli, Corelli, Cossotto, GHIAUROV, SIMIONATO
Genre: Classical
Title: Classic Recitals: Tebaldi & Corelli
Artist: Anton Guadagno, Renata Tebaldi, Franco Corelli, L'Orchestre De La Suisse Romande
Genre:
Title: Leoncavallo: Il Pagliacci
Artist: Milan, Tito Gobbi, Lucine Amara, Franco Corelli, Orchestra Del Teatro Alla Scala, Lovro Von Matacic, Chorus Of La Scala
Genre: Opera
Title: Puccini - Turandot
Artist: Renata Scotto, Birgit Nilsson, Franco Corelli, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
Genre: Classical
Title: Verdi: Aida
Artist: Franco Corelli, Turin, RAI Symphony Orchestra, RAI Symphony Chorus, Angelo Questa
Title: Georges Bizet : Carmen (1957)
Artist: Franco Corelli, Pia Tassinari, Giangiacomo Guelfi, Arturo Basile, Margherita Benetti
Genre: Opera
Title: Franco Corelli: A Perfect Tenor
Artist: Franco Corelli, Arturo Basile, Torino, Orchestra Of RAI
Genre: Opera
Title: Verdi: Ernani
Artist: Ruggero Raimondi, Piero Cappuccilli, Franco Corelli, Ilva Ligabue, Oliviero De Fabritiis
Genre: Opera
Title: Tosca
Artist: Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Franco Corelli, Covent Garden, Giangiacomo Guelfi, Alexander Gibson, Zinka Milanov
Genre: Opera
Title: The Artistry of Franco Corelli
Artist: Franco Corelli, Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Basile
Genre:
Title: The Artistry Of Franco Corelli (Remastered)
Artist: Franco Corelli, Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Basile
Genre: Opera
Title: Verdi: Il trovatore (Metropolitan Opera)
Artist: Leontyne Price, Mario Sereni, Franco Corelli, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Fausto Cleva, Irene Dalis
Genre: Opera
Title: Bizet: Carmen
Artist: Giulietta Simionato, Franco Corelli, Pierre Dervaux, Orchestra Del Teatro Massimo
Title: Adriana Lecouvreur
Artist: Giulietta Simionato, Franco Corelli, Ettore Bastiani Magda Olivero
Title: Puccini: La fanciulla del west
Artist: Tito Gobbi, Franco Corelli, Gigliola Frazzoni, Antonino Votto
Genre: Opera
Title: Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana (Live)
Artist: Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Giulietta Simionato, Franco Corelli, Giangiacomo Guelfi
Genre: Opera
Title: Turandot (Recorded 1961)
Artist: Anna Moffo, Birgit Nilsson, Franco Corelli, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Bonaldo Giaiotti, Leopold Stokowski, Chorus
Genre:
Title: Voices of Opera: Tenors
Artist: Plácido Domingo / Placido Domingo, Charlie Daniels, Nicolai Gedda, Luciano Pavarotti, Carlo Bergonzi, Mario Del Monaco, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Jerry Hadley, Jussi Björling / Jussi Bjorling, Gianni Poggi, Robert Tear, John Mark Ainsley, Andreas Scholl, Franco Corelli, Fritz Wunderlich, Jose Carreras, James McCracken, Leopold Simoneau, Alvinio Misciano, David Galliver
Genre: World Music, Opera
Collections
Title: Opera 2009
Genre:
Title: Opera Obsession! Act III Opera's Greatest Hits
Genre: Opera
Title: The Ultimate Puccini Divas Album
Genre: Opera
Title: Nessun Dorma - 20 Great Tenor Arias
Genre: Opera
Title: Best Of Opera
Title: The Opera Hits of Puccini
Genre: Opera
Title: Puccini: The Opera Highlights
Genre: Classical
Title: Ultimate Opera
Genre:
Title: Opera Essentials: Verdi
Genre: Opera
Title: 50 Essential Opera Arias
Genre: Opera
Title: The Ultimate Puccini Collection
Genre: Opera
Title: Italian Opera, Vol. 1
Genre: Opera
Title: Opera Legends
Genre: Opera
Title: 50 x Opera
Genre: Opera
Title: 100 Best Tenor Arias
Genre:
Title: Sinfini Music: Best Tenors
Genre:
Title: 100 Best Puccini
Genre:
Title: Essential Verdi
Genre:
Title: The No. 1 Puccini Album
Genre:
Title: The Greatest Tenors of the Century
Genre: Opera
Title: Voices Of Italian Opera
Genre:
Title: Puccini Opera Favourites
Genre:
Title: 50 Shades of Classical Music
Genre:
Title: Opera 2011
Genre:
Title: Canzoni Napoletane
Genre:
Title: The 50 Greatest Opera Arias
Genre: Opera
Title: 50 Opera Arias
Genre:
Title: The Best of Puccini
Genre: Opera
Title: 100 Italian Classics
Genre: World Music
Title: Top 100 Opera
Genre: Opera
Title: Nessun Dorma - Puccini 2008
Genre:
Title: Essential Puccini
Genre:
Title: 50 Best Verdi
Genre:
Title: Opera Songs
Genre: Opera
Title: Great Voices Sing Opera
Genre: Opera
Title: Verdi: Greatest Operas
Genre: Opera
Title: Absolute Opera (CD3)
Title: Best Of Italian Opera
Genre: Classical
Title: Les Musiques De Prodiges (10 Ans)
Genre: Classical
Featuring albums
Title: 55 Éxitos de la Era Romántica / 55 Exitos de la Era Romantica
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Classical
Title: 55 Sucessos da Era Romántica / 55 Sucessos da Era Romantica
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Classical
Title: Maria Callas Live - Remastered Recordings 1949-1964
Artist: Maria Callas
Title: 55 Éxitos: Clásica Italiana / 55 Exitos: Clasica Italiana
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Classical
Title: Música para la Cena: Ópera / Musica para la Cena: Opera
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Classical
Title: Clásica para Mañanas de Domingo / Clasica para Mananas de Domingo
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Classical