Did anyone else cry during this? Remembering my own Italian mother.

Corelli. Ti strappa il cuore. L'anima. Il cervello è magnifico!!!!!!!!!

Corelli was the strongman of the tenors. At 6’1 200lbs, he was gigantic compared to the others. He was a linebacker with a great voice. His “Quel vino” is riveting yet tender. I can imagine the thrill it must have been to see him live with really good seats.

Corelli Nobody like him His voice is Gods voice Power of ocean and beauty of nature

Grande Corelli

Il verismo cantato con le regole del "belcanto"... morbidezza, sentimento, voce sul fiato e tristezza ...

El más bello de todos los tenores…il divino Corelli. Gracias ❤❤❤❤

Tenori di oggi o presunti tali ascoltate e studiate a lui non arrivere forse fra 2000 anni grande frsnco😢🎉🎉🎉🎉

I wanna be mama! :) No one else like Corelli.

Un privilegio poder oír y ver una interpretación de esa conmovedora obra. Gracias y saludos. Felicitaciones. 🇨🇱⚓️🇨🇱

Ma quando mai si é ascoltato un Turiddu più calato nel personaggio:Corelli presta la sua duttile e meravigliosa voce e il suo approccio fisico a sentimenti come la paura, la quasi certezza che finirà male, la preghiera a Dio e alla madre, il senso di colpa verso Santa,la "balentia "da rispettare comunque...Interprete sublime anche nel repertorio verista (sentitelo anche in Pagliacci)

Absolutamente magnífico..!!

2021 год - волшебный голос, потрясающий Франко

Feline movement and Godlike vocals! What a man!

Yes, exactly. As he said in an interview: "The singer's life cost me a great deal. I was full of apprehension and mad at everyone. I was a bundle of nerves, I wasn't eating or sleeping."

What a voice- what passion!

Amazing!! Him was the prince of the tenors

I've never belonged to the cult of Corelli that considers him the greatest tenor, but his performance here is breath taking: powerful, emotional, pitch perfect. A marvelous performance, grande finish - and a wonderful actor. A truly great performance.

Incomparable.

What a tenor, voice that connects, deeply touching, so called golden era grand operatic!!! Thank You.

Magnificent ,fabulous , magical ,adorable, maestro Franco Corelli .One and only .

Marvelous!! Unique!!

Sublime

amazing voice.......no comment........superb

It's always refreshing to drink in that sound-there was a 10 year period or so when it was simply astounding The many times I heard him live you knew-even in that era of other great tenor voices -you knew you were witnessing operatic history always the excitement of going to one of his performances on any given night he could out do even himself a performer who went for broke took real risks all that coupled with his appearance was a power that few performer ever had

UNDOUBTABLE WAS FRANCO "THE BEST OF ALL TENORS,

Dearest Franco! You have rendered me incapable of completely enjoying the performance of any other tenor! Grazie Bello! 🌹🤓

Bravo!! I've really grown to love Cavalleria Rusticana.

Grande vocalità, gran timbro, dizione perfetta e limpida...

Grandissimo Corelli unico!

What a voice color it is! Can anybody with this voice color come to earth again?

Incomparabile tenore, il più grande!!!

Magnifico e convincente !

MAGNIFICO ! MERAVIGLIOSO ! SUBLIME ! DIVINO !

Unico

My fingers didn't do so well with this comment. It was as if Franco became transformed actually into Turridu. With all of his anguish and guilt. Thus goes the best of Italian opera. Bravo Maestro Corelli.

Beautifully sung and a great aria as well!

He rips your heart out!

Вы Правы Франко Корелли Величайший Тенор Всех Времен и Народов ! И Через Тысячи лет ,этот Гениальный Голос ,будет Волновать Будущие Поколения Людей ! E Verissimo Lui Rimasto Per Sempre !!!

Greatest!

So thrilling, emotional. Makes to cry

Escucharlo me inunda de nostalgia por cierto tiempo pasado, y adicionalmente, por la calidad espectacular de su voz....

What a voice!!!! the most perfect tenor and the most wonderful interpretation of an emotional scene ever. Molto grazie dal vostro cugino britannico con l'anima italiana. Bravo

The most amazing voice ever heard!

No 1 For Me Franco is Best

WOW AWESOME!!!

¡Lindìsima voz! Inigualable

FRANCO CORELLI ..MARIO DEL MONACO... E GIUSPPE DI STEFANO..I MIGLIORI TENORI DI TUTTI I TEMPI......

I wish there was another one but people like that don't exist today. Family pressure and the obsession of pure northern italian people had for perfection and to be the best at the hardest thing. Even if they were good they thought they were the worst untill performance time. Then its a matter of survival under the spot light, no speakers or pickups just the voice operating on adrenaline, angsiety, self hate, and the fear of not being the best. There's no time to think like that nowadays.

Divino!!

Yea I cried 😢

Franco sublime adorado amado te amo Dios te tendrá viccino per sempre

For my corelli caruso

Corelli es supremo

@adremoid Very sharp the evaluation of Kraus and Corelli. Both artists worked very hard to develop their superior techniques. Always striving for that unreachable goal, the perfect voice. They shared two roles, Werther and Romeo e Juliette. Corelli had all the atributes for the complete tenor.

Signore Corelli e uno di uno Billionaire! Gran Salut!

Doloroso amore per la mamma amarezza che lascia nel cuore amato Franco sei adorato

Jeez. He was really great, wasn't he? It's as if Franco Corelli was a tually the

Grande Mascagni! Grande Corelli!!!

Grandissimo Corelli !! Inarrivabile!

I love mario lanza with a passion nevet seen this singer before but his voice omg beautiful

IT is beautiful

Chingonsisimo y no hay otro

CSODÁS CORELLI.....

I'm not one to call Corelli the greatest, not while there was a Caruso. But he is sublime here - powerful, emotional, pitch perfect. A tremendous performance.

I would have married him and had had loads of his babies... Hopefully one of them would have inherited some of his skill and beauty!!!

Mamma,mamma, Quel vino è generoso, e certo Oggi troppi bicchieri Ne ho tracannati ... Vado fuori all'aperto. Ma prima voglio Che mi benedite Come quel giorno Che partii soldato. E poi ... mamma ... sentite ... S'io ... non tornassi ... Voi dovrete fare Da madre a Santa, Ch'io le avea giurato Di condurla all'altare. Lucia Perché parli così, figliuol mio? Turiddu Oh! nulla! È il vino che mi ha suggerito! Per me pregate Iddio! Un bacio, mamma… Un altro bacio… addio!

TROOOOPO GRAAAAANDE ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Some critics found fault with Corelli during his career . They said he was too loud, held his acuti too long, was self-centered onstage, erc. My take: A great Iralian tenore di forza, with one of the great tenor voices, and which he largely trained by himself; until (and beyond) he could sing a high B flat fff and diminueno to triple pp, while the tone remained vibrant, without using falsetto.

Fantastic.

There were others before Corelli who set the bar just as high and higher.

Bien!

Where to enlist to become the Italian "mama"?

I'm fascinated by the fact that Corelli could hunch his shoulders when singing because he was super fit. That sound is impossible from a normal body, isn't it, without the stereotypical opera pose of chest puffed out, shoulders back and arms splayed like in cartoons? I think perhaps it's his fault opera singers aspired to act, so they lost the sound.

Franco Corelli sings "Addio alla Madre" from Cavalleria

One of the greatest dramatic tenors of any era.Che bella e grandissima voce!I've heard that the primary reason he retired at a relatively young age was because he didn't want to go through the terrible struggle he had with "nerves and anxiety"throughout his career any longer. "E vero ?,Thats only what I've read.Grazie mille primobaritono for posting this wonderful piece.

Corelli is not my favorite tenor - not as long as there was a Caruso - but he is superb here, powerful and emotional. Wonderful stuff.

Belissimo

Holy Geez....

💖💖💖🎉

Mamma, Quel vino è generoso, e certo Oggi troppi bicchieri Ne ho tracannati ... Vado fuori all'aperto. Ma prima voglio Che mi benedite Come quel giorno Che partii soldato. E poi ... mamma ... sentite ... S'io ... non tornassi ... Voi dovrete fare Da madre a Santa, Ch'io le avea giurato Di condurla all'altare.

I am familiar with that interview - with Zucker i believe. he also says that he did not have a great voice a that time even though it was loud and exciting. I strongly recommend Jack Livigni's writings on the topic. he really has been able to shed some light on this technique and how it relates to the traditional technique. I am curious as to what makes Lauri Volpi and Melocchi technique similar? is it that they both advocate a low larynx?

Corelli's voice was both big and extremely vibrant. Given that AND limited ontemporary recording technology, he sometimes sounds a little sharp a little sharp and harsh in his studio recordings. He rarely sounds so on his live records -'

Lucia Perché parli così, figliuol mio? Turiddu Oh! nulla! È il vino che mi ha suggerito! Per me pregate Iddio! Un bacio, mamma ... Un altro bacio ... addio!

@primobaritono Just wondering which prior tenors set the bar higher :-) Thank you for this post! Can you give the date/venue for this recording?

Turiddu Mamma, Quel vino è generoso, e certo Oggi troppi bicchieri Ne ho tracannati… Vado fuori all’aperto. Ma prima voglio Che mi benedite Come quel giorno Che partii soldato. E poi… mamma… sentite… S’io… non tornassi… Voi dovrete fare Da madre a Santa, Ch’io le avea giurato Di condurla all’altare. Lucia Perché parli così, figliuol mio? Turiddu Oh! nulla! È il vino che mi ha suggerito! Per me pregate Iddio! Un bacio, mamma… Un altro bacio… addio!

i got it

Franco Corelli is magnificent as ever! Beautiful! What year is this from and who's Mamma Lucia?

five stars!!!

I would take everything that Mr. Zucker says with a BIG grain of salt.....

... I would consider everything else you said of the Melocchi technique and of Del Monaco.

unico,irripetibile e' il callas dei tenori

bye corelli

When was this recorded?

Are you serious??? Do you have any more inside info on this? Though fathering a child out of wedlock is not in the catholic tradition in this case who cares. Hopefully if there is an offspring Franco has bestowed his wonderful gift to them. I can hardly wait.

getting even for missed turandt

seriously! haha

Genuine question here. Is he not miming/lip-synching to his own recording of this? Maybe it's just the black&white visual of it. Clearly, a giant of opera and power which leaves me amazed every time. So, not criticising here. Could have been several reasons for miming if that indeed was the case.

I'm sorry but you are wrong. The melocchi technique did not promote a depressed larynx, if you would define depressed as one lower by the tongue. If, however, you define it as a low larynx than they both did and so did nearly every other great classical singer! Corelli, did not sing the 'Melocchi' technique. he learn't a bit from a Melocchi student but did not become the singer we know now till he studied with Lauri Volpi and became a very different singer.

What year was this?