Franco Corelli & Leontyne Price - La Forza del Destino - Act 1 Duet (LIVE 1968)

[@assindiastignani]

This was our Verdi/Puccini Dream Team in the 60's. Price-Corelli. These kind of singers don't exist anymore, but almost more importantly - where are these conductors nowadays. Molinari-Pradelli, Rescigno, Veltri, Previtale, Guadagno, Cleva (I'm speaking here only of those who appeared regularly in NYC). These men knew how to carry the singers on their hands - it's one of the reasons they always sang so well.

[@jimbobwaye1]

THANK YOU for mentioning these Maestri! They spoiled me for the rest of my life after having grown up listening to their performances at the Met. LOVED CLEVA!!

[@tatters1232006]

A golden age for great voices,and you can't get any better than Price and Corelli

[@mistersmith1883]

Callas Corelli

[@cimbassovr]

FRANCO CORELLI E LEONTYNE PRICE CHE COPPIA RAGAZZI!!! MI AUGURO CHE ABBIATE AVUTO LA FORTUNA DI VEDERLI DAL VIVO. DA BRIVIDI.CHE MERAVIGLIA.

[@leonoradelagardie]

I love these two together!.They actually make an impossible task possible and present two human beings under great stress. The drama really unfolds naturally with these great singers.

[@camenbel]

Caro Corelli! I am ready for listening to him all day long! and always with tears....

[@ingriddoppler]

Interpreti di prim´ordine ! Mr. Corelli , an amazing artist , both stunning in looks and voice ~ la sua voce risuonerá nell´eternitá .

[@renepaccard7914]

Bonjour merveilleux duo de grandes aujourd'hui qui manquent beaucoup ils brillent au firmament des grandes étoiles immortelles merci a vous pour ce magnifique cadeau

[@tiziana2776]

il piu grande della lirica voce immortale sentimento cuorie infiniti nel suo canto c era tutto e nell aspetto di una bellezza divina

[@oldoperafan_in_London]

What a cast with also Merrill and Hines!

[@amandajean7738]

I must say Corelli and Price sing very well off each other in this. Powerful rushing waters flowing through a stream. Brava.

[@WakandaBabe]

I love them together!!

[@SCARPIA44]

Dear Roberta thank you so much for the site info I ordered tonight. I have been a Corelli fan since my first opera it was Tosca with Tebaldi and Corelli on the Met tour in 1964. I have seen him in Romeo 2 times and Werther,La Boheme and Mecbeth,all on Met tour . All were golden moments in my life.Again thank you and I am one of your subscribers.

[@racheleleeba]

You are so lucky to have those memories. How thrilling it must have been! By the time I became seriously interested in opera, he was retired.

[@arnoldamaral7406]

@@racheleleeba I can relate.We saw Price 👑 twice in concert 75 & 85. In 75 we had never heard a voice like hers. A true treasure indeed. Thank you for posting again. Arnold Bourbon Amaral

[@georgescott3652]

Truly awesome singing!

[@Jake-nk4wg]

Thank you for sharing your treasures with us. I love these two together. :)

[@SCARPIA44]

This was broadcast on Sirius radio yesterday May 30 2018. WOW so great to hear the full broadcast . One of the finest Saturday broadcasts ever. There is a Price\Corelli trinity Met broadcasts Tosca-Ernani- and Forza . All are on You Tube do yourself a favor bask it what it was at one time.

[@liedersanger1]

mike cianciolo Add to your list the 1961 post-debut broadcast Trovatore!

[@65attila]

What wonderful singing by both artists.....................................................racheleleeba I applaud your not letting crude language on your sites. It is disgusting to see some language and insults which are elsewhere........................Regards-John

[@racheleleeba]

I'm glad you enjoyed listening to Price and Corelli, John. And yes, it has been very disturbing to see some of the most disgusting comments from so-called opera fans, which considerably lessen my enjoyment of a video. Just because someone has some other favorite singer doesn't justify vilifying another who has given everything they've got to the lyric art form. I have no scruple about blocking civility-challenged individuals, as well as racists and anti-semites; in fact, just the opposite - I feel great about it!

[@ettoredipugnar6990]

Roberta , Thank you so much for your wonderful posts and the memories that they give me. I remember listening to the broadcasts with my Dad every Saturday.

[@bodiloto]

Divino . ❤

[@andreaprandi4711]

Esiste solo un commento: meglio di così non si può fare!!!!!

[@АлександрКолесов-ь5й]

Ялюблю😊😊😊

[@germanquintero10121946]

BELLO DUO

[@FCOLAXCDG]

3:51 !!!!!!!!! ❤️

[@art724]

I saw the production with Tucker instead of Corelli at the Met. Not to start a discussion but I personally rate Corelli slightly over Tucker. But a great day at the Met with either.

[@cliffgaither]

art724 :: it must have been a blast going to the MET ! no matter who was singing. i grow up in new york & all i ever did was pass by the Metropolitan Opera House. i never even peeked into the "lobby" ; but, honestly, i was a very inexperienced opera-fan & very happy listening at home. it must be nice to have those "live" memories. did you ever hear Corelli at the Met ? was his voice as tremendous -- live -- as on records ?

[@АлександрКолесов-ь5й]

У меня дома❤❤❤

[@joshuamacfl]

Both spinto.

[@kestalphillips1813]

Viva Leontyne! Corelli wasn't the most nuanced or polished of singers, but his voice had a clarion ring and his presence excited audiences. Leontyne recounted to Dick Cavett on his talk show about her throwing a chair towards Corelli when he wasn't "relating" during the recording of CARMEN. "I just helped him to relate that's all. We're very good friends." They were and whenever they appeared together onstage it was an event - not just a performance. Franco is no longer with us, but Leontyne will be 91 next month.

[@racheleleeba]

I used to watch Dick Cavett when I was young, but I wasn't interested in opera back then, so I'm sorry that I either didn't see her on there or don't remember. Thank you for sharing - that made me laugh!

[@pauledeneau9026]

Just saw her on the PBS special The Opera House documentary/Lincoln Centre) and she said it was hard to concentrate on her singing when Corelli was close by on stage. Plus she looked vital as all get out ..in her nineties!! bravo to both.

[@labienus9968]

Why do you need the qualification about Corelli? Be bold-he was the ultimate tenor and could be sensitive, and nuanced when needed. I don't know about the Price story, but having seen FC on stage, in performance many times, except for a few exceptions,he was the one throwing chairs!

[@WakandaBabe]

@Kestal Phillips...Their Carmen was the 1st opera album (yes album) I ever bought. His Don Jose still gives me goosebumps!

[@АлександрКолесов-ь5й]

Можно сегодня ❤❤❤

[@СеклитаЛимариха]

Красавці.

[@kestalphillips1813]

Thrilling but I don't like the translation on top of the images.

[@АлександрКолесов-ь5й]

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[@hashatz]

Corelli was always an exciting tenor but his voice, thrilling as it was, did not have the focus that Tucker's had. Tucker was a classic singer whose vocal production was always fully controlled and contained. Corelli was more like a runaway locamotive, powerful but uncontained. The tones were blared and hurled rather than produced. My choice obviously, is Tucker but I don't discount Corelli or his immense appeal.

[@marujaaparicio1009]

Tucker no tiene nada que ver con Corelli

[@charlesrhodes1358]

I would say the diminuendo that Corelli achieved live in Tosca from Covent Garden in 1957 in "E lucevan le stelle" shows him to be much more than a screamer, if that was your implication.

[@lundilar]

The Tucker Price Trovatore and the Tucker Price Madama Butterfly are absolutely golden age performances not to be equalled for passion, intensity, dramatic s.excitement and vocalism unmatched matched by any other singers.

[@hashatz]

@@charlesrhodes1358 Not at all, Charles. One cannot discount Corelli's outstanding ability to spin out gorgeous diminuendos. My reference regards the production of the voice. We all have our preferences. Corelli's prodigious talents need no defense. Let us take the best from both singers and continue to listen to the magic of opera.

[@labienus9968]

@@hashatz My God someone who has a preference, but sounds reasonable-I must be dreaming. I'm so tired of the people who must always say the best, unmatched, not to be equaled, etc. I heard both Tucker and Corelli many times live, I admired them both, but I disagree with your statement about focus regarding Tucker. Tucker had a more traditional voice in the spinto Caruso tradition etc. Corelli's voice was thoroughly unusual-baritonal, darkish, yet clearly a tenor, with a titanic top-with C's even D flats. I never heard a tenor whose voice actually got broader on his high notes, as Corelli's did, yet with real squillo. Tucker really couldn't sing softy, shade, color, diminuendi, the way Corelli did. AS much as I lived Tucker's heart, those lurching vocal exaggerations on a given night could get on my nerves, as well as his overdone Italian pronunciation.