I was there and saw this wonderful performance. I was in NY for two weeks and got to hear Corelli in Aida, Tebaldi and Konya in Tosca, A Butterfly that was OK. And while wandering about at an intermission, I saw Tebaldi & Corelli were doing Boheme on Jan 11. I bought a ticket. It was absolutely wonderful. That is one of the great things that the Met used to be: a house where you could hear lots of singers doing the same role in a season. For example, in that season you could have heard as Mimi: Freni, Albanese, Tucci, Tebaldi, Stratas, Amara, and on tour you could have heard some of them as well as Kirsten. The Met was truly a singer's house and singing was supreme. I did not realize what a privilege I had in attending opera with those options.

@christopherjohnson3758

7 жыл бұрын

You were one of the fortunate few beings that have walked the face of the earth and were privileged to hear the great Franco Corelli. Alas I was born in 72....

@rbw2222

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Weren't they great! Got to see them twice in Gioconda. Once in Tosca -- on tour. And the Boheme. Hosted Tebaldi when she sang a recital in my home town. Saw Corelli in Forza, Werther, Turandot, AND in Ernani one night when he stepped in for Domingo!!! Also got to see Price in Cosi one night she SHE stepped in for Amara. Those were golden opera days. And we talked then about the Golden Age being in the Caruso era and the 1920's.

@robertrosen6616

6 жыл бұрын

Dick Wilson the other I

@isabelgirau2678

6 жыл бұрын

***** Juan Diego Florez is one of the best! " Try him" ;-)

@terrietackett8964

6 жыл бұрын

Dick Wilson I'm so envious...Glory days for sure.

Franco sure could push those high notes out with no problems at all amazing

@brianshoman1723

Жыл бұрын

That high C was heroic

No matter with whom you compare him, Corelli will always win on points. Because he was so much more than a voice

@malcrichings9052

3 жыл бұрын

Well Said

TEBALDI=VELVET CORELLI=GOLD BOTH=STRONG, LOUD, CLEAR AND VERY VERY PASSIONATE. GRAZIE DIO PER LORO DUE! ❤🙏

This must be Corelli's BEST Rodolfo. Perhaps inspired by the gorgeous Tebaldi. A God and a Goddess.

Not many singers have everything: A HUGE voice, amazing stage perona (in spite of his pathological stage fright) and well... so gorgeous!!! Bravo, Corelli!!

He feels every word.... that’s what made him so special

I had the incredible joy of seeing him as Rodolfo--magnificent--passionate--Corelli!

@racheleleeba

8 жыл бұрын

You were fortunate! I discovered him only seven years ago.

What is astonishing is that this would actually happen live! In the moment. Those were the days of real opera and true opera singing! Can't get myself to a theater to hear opera these days.

@vilhelmhammershoi3871

3 жыл бұрын

@@bluebird5361 sometimes more... you feel for the bad singer.... well sometimes.

@vilhelmhammershoi3871

3 жыл бұрын

@@bluebird5361 i haven't found the balance yet... bad singing is so prevalent.... all over....

Maybe not - Corelli was such a professional, perfectionist performer that even if he had lost something in later years he would have given a good performance. When he felt himself waning, he retired (unlike so many who keep going on and on and on). We should treasure any recording he has ever made imo.

@judithbereczky4114

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, like Domingo. He will never retire. He can' sing anymore, so he "became" a baritone, which doesn't suit him and is so boring. He is selfish, taking the spots from young tenors. Franco Corelli had a class and retired, but Domingo is very selfish and narcissistic.

@oliverdelica2289

3 жыл бұрын

I give my salutes to Maestro Corelli 😭😭

@derrickharmon2

2 жыл бұрын

I thought Beverly Sills retired too early . . . she still had a lot to give.

@ramonvargas1

2 жыл бұрын

@@judithbereczky4114 pero hace una gran labor con los jóvenes y es natural que al pasar el tiempo sus capacidades disminuyan es una gran persona

@marcmitchel25

4 ай бұрын

​@@derrickharmon2She had it in her head that Devereux aged her voice, had other aspirations and a needy family to put it gently.

A voice so big and wide yet so angelic and gentle

Corelli had more lung capacity than any other human being, abdominal muscles of tungsten, vocal cords of some unknown substance that could produce any required note with appropriate power and musical beauty, a true sense of the dramatic demands of every aria I have heard him sing with the skill and talent required to respect those demands, and exquisite control of the full set of his abilities. He must also have had a massive taste for hard work; no human endeavour of the quality he achieved comes easily. A plaintive chorus from all the other tenors that have been, are, or will be: "Not fair!"

@pavel_SMN

11 ай бұрын

Mario Del Monaco.....

@giselamarch1994

9 ай бұрын

Not quite@@pavel_SMN

@PragueImport

3 ай бұрын

@@pavel_SMN Was not as handsome ....(just a personal view)

This is heavenly! Those two together makes one forget all technicalities. The enjoyment drowns out all worldly things involved with voice production and negates the questions about Bflats or high C's. These people knew how to sing!

@jefolson6989

Жыл бұрын

I personally prefer the lower key. It allows for broader phrasing and a slightly less worried tenor. The aria is still plenty high, and that the biggest single note in the role. A great B is much preferred to a blown, cracked, or splattered C.

@sairechrysbelleparcon8950

Жыл бұрын

In lower key I guess but his high note still in C5

@jefolson6989

Жыл бұрын

@@sairechrysbelleparcon8950 than is not the lower key! I didn't check it, but it seems easy for him.

Франко Клрелли Уникальное Создание Природы !!!Вличайший Певец всех времен и народов !!!Гений Вокала !!!

Ma quale meraviglia di sentimenti espressi con una voce dalle mille sfumature straordinarie! SEMPRE SARÀ UNICO!

Sempre tanta emozione nell'ascoltare l'indimenticabile Corelli ...bravo e anche bello

Великое искусство Прекрасное исполнение такие талпанты нам свыше даны чтоб наши души просвещались становились чиище добрее. Браво и огромное им спасибо ❤❤❤

Dear Maestro Franco Corelli! How I love you!

Franco Corelli, heavenly to listen to, delicious to watch.

maravilloso Corelli y junto a Renata Tebaldi formaron un duo celestial

The greatest tenor of the 20th century ..... period! This aria always makes me cry

Grazie per questo Grande Regalo !!! Un canto che prende Anima ,Quore ,Cervello ,Tutto !!!

The voice, the man, the excitement, the applause. Love the sub-titles too.

Irresistibile Franco!!!!

VOCE DI FRANCO CORELLI SECONDO ME, E UN STRUMENTO DI DIO !!!

@drluisgoncalves

4 жыл бұрын

Non è di Dio, è veramente umano. Se provenisse dal racconto divino, se avesse origine in una fantasia soprannaturale, l'uomo sarebbe silenzioso, perché la finzione non si manifesta, è solo una chimera.

@alessandropucci6768

4 жыл бұрын

E Pavarotti?????

@eugeniogentili1048

4 жыл бұрын

Pavarotti è stato un buon tenore di grazia Corelli di un altro livello.

@sabraellenjones5226

3 жыл бұрын

An instrument of God, indeed.

Greatest line any guy ever delivered! Who could resist?

They were the best ever! Miss them.

Que Increíble esta voz de Franco, lo admiro muchísimo.

Cada vez que oigo esta voz, esos agudos heroicos valientes ! no encontré una voz que lo iguale ... el alma le sale en ellos.

@TheDanimal63

8 жыл бұрын

+maria fernanda valle ojea Para mì el mejor tenor....

Dear Franco you are so much missed. Rest in peace.

Corelli is my all-time favorite Operatic Tenor. No one else could/can milk a melodic line and phrase the way he did. Moreover, he sang with a barely controlled passion which was palpable. His voice conveyed great tragedy in a way I have never heard from any other Tenor. His tendency to engage in scooping and sliding (sometimes almost excessively) did not bother me given the superb quality of his voice. The "ring" that he had from roughly G through Bb was tremendous. Pavarotti had that kind of "ring" on B and high C but not on G through A. Corelli sounded very much like a baritone below G which Pavarotti did not (more of a lyrico-spinto). Thank you so much for posting this.

@leonoradelagardie

8 жыл бұрын

You are absolutely right in what you say and it is a pleasure to say I totally agree.

@mr.m.8727

8 жыл бұрын

completely agree....although to put Maestro Corelli with Pavarotti in the same sentence is almost blasphemy :))

@Jacob-ry3lu

8 жыл бұрын

He had a solid stream of sound from his lowest register to his top, no weak spots. And I agree, Corelli's phrasing just melts the soul, everything he sings becomes the gold standard.

@aforwood1

8 жыл бұрын

Big difference in their voices. Corelli is a Spinto and Pavarotti is a Lyric.

@mr.m.8727

8 жыл бұрын

aforwood1 True that :) But, the comparison (clearly lost by Pavarotti) is due. Since Pavarotti decided to "sing" Aida, Trovatore, Turandot, etc...he entered Corelli's field I am afraid. I really appreciated the early Pavarotti singing in Rigoletto and Fille du Reg. Sadly he chose the path of money...and ruined his own great voice.

Que mas se puede agregar que decir maravilloso ,sublime amado REY de los tenores y ademas no pudo haber habido hombre mas bello sobre la tierra

Thank you so much for posting the English translation! My Italian was never good enough to understand those beautiful words. And listening to Franco Corelli's incomparable voice singing such stunning poetry always makes my day.

Even just listening to his voice and the words which was internalised so well by him and conveyed with utter sincerity and passion... it leaves my heart a-flutter and makes me think... where is my Rodolfo? I want him to warm my cold hand.

Corelli sings terrific, Mimi is Tebaldi, unmistakable !!!

Love Corelli singing, I consider his diminuendo unmatched. His appearance alone is befitting of any romantic lead. Much missed methinks..

Love it!

@natalinatollari9906

Жыл бұрын

Me too!!!!!!

Merci mon Dieu pour cette merveille sur terre... Corelli est le ténor absolu....

la voz de Corelli tan majestuosa,imponente, electrizante, sensual,masculina, varonil, seductura,fascinante.. te exalta al escucharlo!!!

Grande voce passionale per Rodolfo...mai sentito un Rodolfo così...e la stessa grande voce e passione di Cavaradossi,Chenier,Radames e tutti gli altri personaggi da lui interpretati...quando un tenore ci mette tutta l'anima...

Great Singer Yes you are right the best!!!

Non gli si può proprio resistere ...e son passati già 50 anni!

Wow! It was a Magnificent rendition despite the poor recording. That high C was pushed further than anyone I've ever listened to sing this magnificent aria, the one exception being Rashid Bebudov.

Lovely, amourous, poetic. 🌹🌻 🌷 💖💝 🌄

Corelli semplicemente mostruoso in quest'aria....

Very lovely video - Franco Corelli always brings something extra in live performances - it was beatifully paced singing leading to his usual wonderful soaring the heights at 8 minutes! Also like the translations of the text with the photographs.

Corelli. Maestro. Non passa giorno che.non ti ascolto...... mi fai sognare .... stupenda voce. Grazie Franco per cio" che ci hai regalato.

@leonoradelagardie

6 жыл бұрын

Rita Di Trani, Yes, he was divine. We should all be grateful that he existed.

@linolunardini9262

5 жыл бұрын

@Juan Galindo ma come fate a capire tutte queste tonalità? siete dei maghi ? Corelli comunque una spanna sopra tutti gli altri !!!!

@vittoriomaurinotosi718

5 жыл бұрын

@Juan Galindo, io concordo con lei.

@vittoriomaurinotosi718

5 жыл бұрын

@@linolunardini9262, indubbiamente un grande tenore, ma ce ne sono stati anche altri, l'ho ascoltato pochi giorni fa in una riedizione registrata di "Ah si ben mio - Di quella pira" e credo che il DO sovra acuto forte e ben tenuto fosse per lui un traguardo difficile.

@TurandotFanatic

4 жыл бұрын

@Juan Galindo Corelli era uma persona estremamente nervosa, per entrare sul palco soffriva molto. È normale Che cantava queste arie mezzo tono sotto. Ma non credo che ciò possa in alcun modo sminuire la sua interpretazione.

Beautiful rendition! I never saw Corelli sing, and had to make do with his TV appearances. This is a terrific recording, Corelli sounds emotionally pumped up. Sometimes they are just "on". I ushered a Sunday Matinee performance to a half empty house in San Francisco in 1950, It was near the end of the season. The opera was Manon Lescaut with Albanese and Bjoerling. One of the best I ever saw.

So lovely and so poetic. Poetico i romantico.

i cannot stop listening to cut after cut !

@FISTRIG

9 жыл бұрын

WONDEROUS MIRACULOUS VOICE

💚 Corelli ⭐. Marvelous tenor.🌷

Altri tenori bravissimi hanno cantato questa opera ma come Corelli nessuno mai. Il più grande. ❤❤❤❤

What a perfect version! Nothing like it! Can even make out the words. Even knowing Italian, when most people sing you can't even tell there are words. They are so busy, swooping, gliding, doing vibrato, it's like they forget it's a damn story! The words are important! It isn't one long arpeggio!

@arnoldamaral7406

4 жыл бұрын

wmnoffaith1 INDEED.And I thought Dame JOAN had bad diction.Today it's a disgrace with singers directors conductors set designers etc. Arnold Bourbon Amaral

So breathtakingly beautiful!!

racheleleeba, muchas gracias por compartir ésta grabación de éste hermoso duo; con la gran Renata Tebaldi y el Gran Maestro Franco Corelli con su bella y magnifica voz e interpretación, para mi y muchos, las más perfecta y hermosa "Che gelida manina". ¡¡¡BRAVO POR SIEMPRE GRAN MAESTRO FRANCO CORELLI!!

There has never been anyone to compare to Corelli nor will there ever be. God broke the mold when he was born.

@RestlessTheRED

8 жыл бұрын

+aforwood1 WHAT?! Caruso, Merli, Pertile, Gigli were pretty comparable (Caruso probably superior).

@aforwood1

8 жыл бұрын

In my mind he's overrated (Caruso). Corelli has him beat by a mile. Merli, Pertile, Gigli were also good but not better than Corelli. They didn't have the timbre in their voices he has and they all sounded like lyric tenors, which to me is not a strong tenor.

@leonoradelagardie

8 жыл бұрын

Very happy to read your wonderful defence of my favourite tenor, the greatest of them all:Franco Corelli.

@lilianamartabarsellini4517

7 жыл бұрын

Yes! That is a great truth. Corelli was superior to all and still remains

@RestlessTheRED

7 жыл бұрын

Only in your delusions. Caruso has been the gold standard for any tenor and will remain in this position for a long, long time. Corelli is great, but his technique is simply not on par.

Nunca te olvidaré cada dia te amo más FRANCO mas lo escucho mas me gusta

Thank you for spoiling us by sharing "nothing but the best." This is OUTSTANDING - from a time when Corelli really "had it" vocally as Rodolfo. Any clips with Corelli from his 1974 Met broadcast of LA BOHEME and any of his traversal of this opera in Torre del Lago in 1976 should be forever BANISHED from any and all file-sharing services known to man, woman, and child. THIS is how Corelli should be remembered - and with Tebaldi as Mimi, too!

Alfredo Kraus said that all Rodolfos end up transposing this aria down, eventually. I think its true. It really is a spinto role. Corellis is the perfect voice for it.

@labienus9968

Жыл бұрын

I odn't know that they "all" transpose it down-annwhat is eventually., but I don't think of it as a spinto role, necessarily, but if you do then the spintos would transpose it down, eventually, or early on

he was truly the greatest tenor. Unfortunately, he retired before the world could see him like the three tenors on TV who were not in his class. By far he was the greatest Calaf.

@luisroqueperez1084

7 жыл бұрын

McMahon Maria indeed. Pavarotti said that if Corelli's performances were broadcast as the three tenors, he would be as famous as he deserved.

@kneeman66

5 жыл бұрын

We are bringing Corelli back in a hologram performance

@maggiedeveney

4 жыл бұрын

Peter Gibbons please hurry! I’m quite old.

Bravo!!! MAESTRO!!!

Bravissimi entrambi ~ two of the " greatest of all times " ! Thanks for another gem of your great collection.

It hurts he is not still here. Thank god for the recordings. I would have given anything to see him and hear him.

I was there. I saw them all from 1964 on.

@user9xyz836

5 жыл бұрын

How lucky you were!

@natalinatollari9266

2 ай бұрын

l'invidio un po'

John Oregan. Love Corelli. Saw him many times at MET. Both c's are optional. Have no problem with transposition.

Senza dubbio nessuno - IL SOMMO IMPERATORE !!!!

@racheleleeba

7 жыл бұрын

Indeed he was, dear Ingrid!

@celesteaida48

7 жыл бұрын

ingriddoppler no one like since!

@elsaasta5164

6 жыл бұрын

Il Giulio Cesare del Mondo della musica e della Lirica e Apollo della mitologia greca. Grazie Maestro Franco Corelli! !!

Love the sudden diminuendo on "al buio non si trova". Completely unexpected, but it works brilliantly.

che Rodolfo!!!! che sublime voce....romantico e appassionato......chissà vederlo in teatro!!!!!!

So lucky. God bless. You saw an icon. No one compares.

Simplemente hermoso!!!!

Superb. That high C....MAGNIFICENT.

Corelli è divino come al solito 😍💖🙌 E la Tebaldi è una Mimì eccellente 💘

Franco Corelli was the most beautiful sounding Italian tenor I have ever heard - and he looked as good as he sounded. By comparison Pav was a fat repulsive raucous bawler. I saw him in this role in Covent Garden in the mid 70s. Kiri te Kanawa was Mimi. The whole production was superb but it took a whole lot of suspension of disbelief to accept our Pav as a starving poet

Cazzo che bravo, mi viene da piangere. L'ho scoperto oggi... ignoranza mia ok, ma è davvero impressionante.

maravilloso.como todos los grandes.................y el es uno de ellos...................cada cual en cuerda.............y momento......cultural.y emociones......en cada cual y cada situacion.artistica............indudablemente......grande..........

Beautiful job! Thank you for posting it!!

these two were at the very pinnacle of their profession ! these two were the finest your postings are superb plesse dont stop best wishes from across the pond

¿Què màs puedo agregar a todo que aquì se comenta? Corelli ha sido y aùn lo sigue siendo, lo màximo

SPLENDIDO E MERAVIGLIOSO FRANCO PER VOCALITÀ E INTERPRETAZIONE IN SIMBIOSI CON UNA INDIMENTICABILE RENATA PERFETTA MIMI . RANCO E RENATA SIETE SEMPRE NEI NOSTRI CUORI! !!!!!!!!!!

Przy takim śpiewie......same dreszcze i emocje.....cudownie....

immortali

Applause well deserved. Glorious!

This was Corelli at his peak, and what a peak it was! To see him with Tebaldi in this performance would have been a supreme thrill. Both of them were smart: when their voices began to age they retired, and we can always think of them at their best. I wonder how Puccini would have felt if he had had the opportunity to hear his work performed so magnificently.

Franco Corelli and Renata Tebaldi, what could be better? - Corelli playing Pinkerton to Tebaldi's Butterfly, which Corelli unfortunately never performed. If he had played Pinkerton, the sight of that devastatingly handsome man would have caused pandemonium in the opera house. Thank you for posting this treasure, Roberta.

Divinamente Corelli

Wow, what a voice

Grandioso, único, irrepetible, gigante, supremo, todo esto se ha dicho de él. Pues bien, creo que se quedan cortos.

Where have the Italian tenors and sopranos gone, most of the present day singers seem to be from Eastern Europe.

После Франко Корелли , слушать кого либо очень сложно.Его голос занимает все пространство , охватывает сознание и затем не отпускает.

@user-fu4zx9iu1h

4 ай бұрын

И да, и нет. Хотя сказано хорошо. С одной стороны, Корелли вообще сложно с кем-то сравнивать - он один такой. А с другой стороны, именно Корелли "виноват" в моем увлечении итальянской оперой, я наконец-то по-настоящему открыла ее для себя. Слушаю сейчас разных певцов - в основном старой школы.

Corelli reigns!!!

ancora e per sempre.....

Thank you for the English subtitles. Forgive my ignorance, but I certainly know outstanding music when I hear it.

This is GREAT sininging!!!!!

How beautifu this is; bravo indeed!

I'm in tears

NO WORDS TO DISCRIBE IT

peccato, l'indiscrezione degli americani ad applaudire fuori da ogni logico tempismo! ciò a parte, fantasticamente unici!

Thanks for putting a translation.

Después de "or che mi conoscete" se queda... ... ... que nos hace pensar que se le había olvidado la letra. Cómo aguanta la orquesta! Fantástico, Corelli.

I really appreciate your creativity in making this video!