Franco Corelli and Fedora Barbieri reunited on a '90s radio show (La Barcaccia) + subtitles

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[@AWS2210]

Un documento prezioso, questa telefonata! Un regalo!

[@Mariejeanne-c1k]

Ça me fait plaisir d'entendre la voix de Franco Corelli ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@ZENOBlAmusic]

This is amazing! I have read about this interview, I never thought I would actually be able to hear it! Poor Franco they placed him in a bad position, but he handled it like a pro.

[@andreaguarino8207]

Mamma mia invecchiare, però che voci

[@toscadonna]

She’s funny; she thought he was someone else at first. Someone she didn’t like.😂 It’s sad to hear great singers like them noticed the decline in voice teaching even back then. Doesn’t bode well for the future.

[@chiaroscuroculture]

I didn't understand at first why she was talking about him that way :) P.S. Also important are their words at the end about the decline in vocal skills of the singers....

[@FrancoCorelliInfoCenter]

and poor Franco was so sweet about it. "But why am I antipatico? 🥺😰" Maybe in the original broadcast they talked more about correct technique and the decline in singing, unfortunately I don't have the full conversation, but I would have been interested to know how much Franco agreed with Barbieri's views on good or bad mouth positions etc. He didn't really get to speak here 😅

[@chiaroscuroculture]

@@FrancoCorelliInfoCenter Too bad there's no full version, I'd love to hear it. Tell me in confidence, when is Fanciulla coming out? I won't tell anyone))))

[@FrancoCorelliInfoCenter]

@@chiaroscuroculture Current target date: April 8 (It's just very difficult because online librettos are so inaccurate I have to type the text from the score, and there are too few photos from the 1956 production, so I have to use photos from 1957, when Del Monaco was Johnson, and 1964, when Guelfi was Rance and lots of variance in the supporting cast too... So I'm forced to cheat here and there and do some head transplants in Photoshop - not between Franco and Mario, of course, the difference in physique is too great between them for that to ever work 😅)

[@CotaDangelo]

Fedora thought she was speaking with Enrico Stinchelli, he is a regisseur, for sure she was mad at this Enrico, I do not know why, but she was direct, and she said what she thinks hahaha instead, she was speaking with the prince of tenors, the great Franco Corelli

[@absdyna]

She thought she was talking to Stinchielli... when she realized it was Franco she immediately called him coscia d'oro lol

[@MetaMind-r2s]

how do you do this with the english subtitles? manually you put each subtitle in EVERY phrase so it takes MANY MANY hours for every to complete this procedure?

[@FrancoCorelliInfoCenter]

Yes, I add each line manually, either in KZbin's own subtitle editor or in a separate software. For short videos like this, it doesn't take much time, but for whole operas or long interviews, it takes several hours, yes.

[@MetaMind-r2s]

@@FrancoCorelliInfoCenter like it might take 8 hours for a 2 hour opera or something?

[@FrancoCorelliInfoCenter]

@@MetaMind-r2s well, I've never timed it, but I'd say about that much, yes.

[@mortalclown3812]

​@@FrancoCorelliInfoCenterI'm very grateful to you. ❤