Immortal Franco Corelli begged for Bis after Smashing Diminuendo

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[@nielrishoi8156]

Spectacular. Corelli does in addition the "baci" by sustaining the 'i' - the "ee" vowel instead of going immediately over to the "o" and "languide." The diminuendo is astonishing; he figured out how to "pull back" from the resonance so skillfully, smoothly, and the sustained pianissimo is strong, shining, not white or crooned. Audience goes bonkers. As they should.

[@aliciarealp]

¡¡Fabuloso, Corelli!!

[@sabbath7081]

Words cannot describe it.

[@ernieschwarcz9077]

Franco Corelli was the greatest tenor ever. The king of tenors.

[@victoriagrapsidou3474]

Who can compare with his emotion, interpretation, and voice skills.... I so much envy these audiences of the past glorious opera days!!! Franco per sempre!!!!❤❤❤

[@shayanmardanbeigi2697]

The night the name of the opera Tosca was changed to Cavaradossi

[@LohengrinO]

Mario, Mario, Maaaaarioooo!

[@JanneMalik-tq8bv]

TOSCA AND CAVARADOSI !!

[@mortalclown3812]

My favorite. Magnificent. Spontaneous tears. What a memory this must've been for all in attendance. Bravo.

[@veramayer9571]

I had to come back and listen to this again! I'm no singer, except for in the shower. But I feel that part with "le belle forme disciogliea dai veli" is the hardest to execute in this aria, and Corelli absolutely nails it. What I admire here is how free he sounds throughout. So many singers sound painfully constricted, as if someone was throttling them. Not Corelli, though!

[@1968KWT]

Parma 21.1.’67 👏🏼

[@cosimoepicoco7022]

E poter dire: io quel giorno c'ero!

[@natalinatollari9266]

Magari!!!!!

[@pryan5183]

Thank you for the location and date.

[@delosmike2030]

I love how you can hear the audience almost WETTING themselves after that incredible phrase. It took everything they had in them not to cry out in astonished delight and stop the aria cold. Magnificent, historic singing.

[@ZenGrammy]

Impossible to express how much I adore Mr. Corelli’s voice and artistry. Thank you .

[@LohengrinO]

...and all that Beauty omg More Gorgeous than Cary Grant

[@ZenGrammy]

@@LohengrinO - Oh YES! I held myself back from saying that but since you opened the door - I still swoon every time I see this splendid specimen of a man. 💘💘💘

[@unicounici3772]

As I wrote elsewhere: I listen to it every now and then. Every time I hear that "disciogliea" I melt. Here the audience, the Parma one, the most competent in the world of opera, explodes and raves but makes a mistake: it asks for an encore. You cannot ask God to reappear.

[@manolis.799]

That night the opera was named Cavaradossi

[@LohengrinO]

it is because Niki Minaj was singing Tosca I think...

[@marie-jeannevallecalle9991]

Le plus grand des ténor au monde merci franco ♥️ ♥️ ♥️ ♥️ ♥️ ♥️ ♥️ ♥️ ♥️ ♥️ ♥️ ♥️ ♥️ ♥️ ♥️ ♥️ ♥️ ♥️

[@guycondroyer864]

Je suis toujours passionné par votre amour sans limite de l'immense Franco. Où habitez vous ❓ Moi j'habite à nîmes Cordialement ❤

[@user-mf3td9iw6f]

До слёз!!! Завидую тем, кто был в это время в зрительном зале!!!

[@jorgemunoz3545]

CORELLI es absolutamente MARAVILLOSO.

[@veramayer9571]

His diction tends to drive me crazy, but what a voice! What a level of control over it! Bravo! No wonder the audience went wild...

[@TD05SSLegacy]

The lisp! Easy to overlook though.

[@labienus9968]

Urban legend. I heard him live over 40x-never left the theater saying great sound too bad for the pronunciation. In fact, as I return to listen to recordings after decades of hearing him-at his best, I became more impressed with how he colored and gave meaning to words, and how much deeper an interpreter he is than I remember. He actually knows what he's singing, and believes it-part of his power.

[@veramayer9571]

@@labienus9968 Oh, I only take issue with the lisp, which is not equally noticeable in all recordings anyway. And I daresay it's just a matter of personal taste, but it just happens to grate on my ears. Otherwise, I completely agree with all you said about how he colored and gave meaning to the words.

[@labienus9968]

I'm glad we agree on the important part-that he does know what he is saying/singing by how he handles the words. I also agree that-let's put it my way-the mythical "s" problem varies and in my opinion in many,if not most of the recordings it is not present. But we disagree that there is a "lisp" at all. A lazy s sometimes, but the strange thing is you can hear something, in one aria, and then the rest of the sibilant sounds in that same aria are perfectly normal. My own theory is that FC was so obsessed with the "emission" of sound that sometimes it took precedence over the word. (in watching him sing with binoculars I remember a tongue sort of flapping) I have an additional problem with this myth. As i said, I heard him live at least 42x-I counted them after he died, but I may be off a couple. So I am not going just from recordings. Many of them I attended with my brother, and other family and friends and never once, not even once! did anyone say great Franco, but the s's. What am I to make of that? Of all the Corelliste I have known over the yrs. I never heard it mentioned. I do recall one person, maybe a second of all those people who pointed it out, but they, unlike you, were prejudiced anyway-there's always been a group like that. I hope they are enjoying today's tenors! It's been on the internet when I first started seeing it mentioned. I will point out, not as a way of making light of this accusation that the more artsy Carol Bergonzi has a shush sound on every s-which drives me crazy. I am not a true Italian speaker myself, but I know there are dialects with very lazy s's, or much softer sounds in that area.

[@veramayer9571]

@@labienus9968 you're right, it's probably wrong to call whatever it is a lisp, since there's no trace of it in his interviews - so yes, it's just an artefact of the emission of sound. Lucky you, to have heard him live so many times! If time travel were possible, I'd spring for the '50s and '60s first... Although of course going even further back, to hear Caruso, would be interesting as well. If you're still going to the opera nowadays, is there anyone you find at least acceptable?

[@TarotAstrologerTHOMAS]

1:57 to 2:18 that's the craziness

[@VirginiaMcElvainRN]

I have listened to Corelli sing this more than other aria by any artist. He dies it incredibly. I wonder where and when he sang tis.

[@johnconway3834]

Parma, January 1967

[@elisapradaorosa5210]

Espectacular, para mí el mejor Cavaradossi de la historia perfecto❤

[@MarcoChessa94]

incredibile quello che deve avere vissuto questo ARTISTA IMMENSO in questa e in tantissime altre occasioni della sua carriera. Il pubblico che esplode e lo implora per un bis per quello che è riuscito a creare con la sua voce. Magia

[@victoriagrapsidou3474]

Franco alla foglia!!! Immenso, insuperabile, grandioso spettacolare tenoro!!

[@bathie2636]

Thank you Lohengrin O for Indulging this joy, and happiness!… *The pleasures your sharing brings is So Enormous…*

[@cabalettaverdi]

Fantástico, único, brillante,Dios supremo de la lírica,el emperador de la opera❤❤❤

[@ChrisJonesDivo]

Total hysteria! It sounds like people are flinging themselves from the balcony. And speaking of Tosca, I wonder who it was that night and what she was thinking! 🤭

[@LohengrinO]

It was Niki Minaj!!

[@johnconway3834]

It was Virginia Gordoni. Actally, Virginia Gordon She put an "i" on the end of her name so it would sound more Itanliente!!

[@ConnorStear]

Was this Parma in '67? That diminuendo melts me every time...

[@richardlubbock155]

Incomparable for Ever !

[@linnaeusshecut3959]

For better or worse, he milked that cow dry.

[@guycondroyer864]

Incompréhensible en 🇫🇷

[@nicholassmith3596]

Quelque chose comme: pour le mieux ou pour le pire il l'a exploité au maximum . Pour dire qu'il ne s'est pas retenu dans son interprétation !

[@highbaritone]

Good Lord. Amazing.

[@ritainnocenti2388]

Formidabile...

[@cosimoepicoco7022]

Di Tosca, personalmente mi sconvolge sia il pugnalamento di Scarpia,che questo momento.Mai sentito Corelli.Grazie!

[@augustocelsi2050]

Mi ricorda quando ho debuttato questa Opera…..grandissimo Franco

[@EliominDZ]

MARAVILLOSO, ESPECTACULAR

[@radames5855]

Certo...essere li in teatro ,ci sarebbe da trasalire!!! Grande performance!!!

[@jeromebeillieu3108]

Sublime ❤❤❤❤

[@claraleonori999]

concedere il bis non dipende dal cantante ma dal DIRETTORE D'ORCHESTRA||||si curamente FRANCO LO AVREBBE CONCESSO vista la reazione del pubblico!!!!!davvero un TRIONFO!!!!!PIENAMENTE MERITATO|

[@giuseppeamodeo9293]

Bis concesso con l'esecuzione della canzone napoletana "core 'ngrato", accompagnato dal pianoforte.

[@aetion]

Ντιμινουέντο 20-22 δευτερολέπτων. Φωνή κρυστάλλινη. Μπρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρράβο του :) Το δεύτερο ντιμινουέντο περιττό, κατά την γνώμη μου, αλλά ... Ευχαριστώ, φίλε Τεό.

[@cosimoepicoco7022]

Finora non ho ascoltato nessun Tenore che ha "usato" il secondo diminuendo.Corelli a mio parere è la versione femminile del soprano signora Caballe'.

[@MarkFarago]

That's crazy.....

[@petrus2803]

That’s all, folks

[@Sabi1970]

Grandios!!!

[@marcogori9677]

In un’intervista Luciano Pavarotti raccontò che quella sera era fra il publico e si mise a urlare Bis

[@Valentino_Cammarelle]

In quale intervista?

[@songohan3931]

@@Valentino_Cammarelleyour mom

[@sabbath7081]

I just don't know how he could have that much vocal strength and still be able to control it the way he does, when he's at full power he's obviously got a wide open throat with no technique at all it's just his full voice from the chest to most singers it's impossible to have that much range in concentrating the power from soft to full and still sound natural

[@JanneMalik-tq8bv]

Geweldig !!

[@ruthvieten6107]

Ein Traum

[@trudischleifer7245]

Magical

[@chrisdeoni1697]

I wish I had been there. Was there an encore? It sounds like it is towards the end...

[@johnconway3834]

no, but he sang a couple of songs with piano after the opera was over.

[@giuseppeamodeo9293]

Il bis fu la canzone napoletana "core 'ngrato"

[@1Ferretti]

Incredible! How great was Corelli! And, btw, does anybody knows when this performance was? At least the year...

[@cosimoepicoco7022]

È scritto più giù nei commenti Parma 1968!

[@guycondroyer864]

​@@cosimoepicoco7022 21 janvier 1967 à Parme

[@clementinabignardi4614]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@MrQbenDanny]

FANTÁSTICO, that's big dick singing !!!

[@guycondroyer864]

C'est quoi ce langage de porcherie 😢❓

[@linnaeusshecut3959]

In English, when one milks something (on traite quelquechose) then one uses it to its full extent or exhausts it. When Corelli holds a note (2:00) longer than written, it could be said that he is milking it for better or worse. At that moment, is it showmanship or artistry?

[@LohengrinO]

both with a slight tendency towards showmanship

[@Keatsy08]

It is for the audience's pleasure, he loved to please and never spared himself... that is why he retired early...

[@labienus9968]

That's not why he retired, and it really wasn't "early" As to taste-this was famously, deliciously over the top, but he was an Italian tenor singing in Parma of all places., in a different era. I heard him live in Tosca 12x he always did the diminuendo, but they were all sung with some might say better taste than here

[@mbrackeva]

I'm pretty sure Puccini would not have been annoyed at hearing this.

[@labienus9968]

As Verdi said of tenors interpolating a high c in Trovatore-if you have it........

[@vincebossi46]

Interpretazione da….DELIRIO!!!!!!!!ama con certe note tenute meno a lungo sarebbe stato anche molto più elegante!!!!!!!!

[@guycondroyer864]

Pourquoi ❓

[@marie-jeannevallecalle9991]

Franco Corelli pouvait tenir les notes très longtemps c'était le seul a pouvoir interpréter comme ça indetronable 👍🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@claraleonori999]

tenere le note in quel modo ERA meraviglioso e soltanto CORELLI POTEVA FARLO||||||DA BRIVIDI||||altro che eleganza||||\IL PUBBLICO IMPAZZIVA, IO L'HO VEDUTO IN TEATRO, non in questa occasione,CON LA SUA MERAVIGLIOSA VOCE CORELLI POTEVA ANCHE PERMETTERSI qualche piccola:::::....trasgressione|||||||E INFATTI LA REAZIONE E' MOLTO CHIARA|||||||||

[@giuseppeamodeo9293]

C'è chi può e chi non può. Corelli può.

[@camillopellegatta581]

Divine