Conversations With Corelli (3-3-1990)
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Conversations with Corelli:
Interview 2, “Opera Fanatic,” March 3, 1990
Franco Corelli, Jerome Hines, Dodi Protero, guests
Stefan Zucker, host
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Press coverage of Corelli’s appearances on “Opera Fanatic.”
About the guests on “Opera Fanatic.”
Dodi Protero
TOPICS:
Total Interview Time: 2 hours, 56 minutes
- Callas vs. Olivero
- Callas’s technique
- Her loss of voice
- Hines on Olivero and Callas
- The Rome Walkout
- Maria Caniglia
- Beniamino Gigli
- Has singing changed in your time?
- Bianca Scacciati
- Miscasting
- Picking singers to suit operas vs. picking operas to suit singers
- American, Italian and German styles
- German vs. Italian legato
- The vowel “ah”
- The German influence
- Renato Cellini, the first Fascist at the Met after the war
- Cloe Elmo. Corelli favors booing
- Booing at the Met
- Claques
- Booing
- Gigli’s influence on Del Monaco
- Big voices and 16th notes
- Leyla Gencer
- The Rome Walkout and the lack of covers in Italy
- When in America Italians display temperament
- Corelli’s favorite among his performances
- Stanford Olsen
- Lina Pagliughi
- Gino Bechi, Giangiacomo Guelfi, Leonard Warren, Robert Merrill, Cornell MacNeil, Ettore Bastianini and Titta Ruffo
- Why Corelli did not sing Ballo
- Corelli’s favorite conductors
- Singing too loudly
- Grace Bumbry
- The tempos of Karajan and Bernstein
- A conductor Corelli did not like
- Does Corelli approve of the Met’s casting?
- Why the Met’s orchestra is too loud
- The Met’s choice of singers
- What is a Verdian voice?
- Iodine on vocal cords
- The Del Monaco cocktail
- Almond oil, cortisone
- Douglas Stanley
- The day of a performance
- Enzo Sordello’s herbs and the steam in his room
- Directors’ opera
- The biggest voices
- Francesco Merli, Giacomo Lauri Volpi, Birgit Nilsson, Richard Tucker, Anita Välkki, Helen Traubel, Caruso, Gino Penno
- Sweet tenors vs. round tenors
- A Corelli return as Otello
- To return or not to return?
- Nel verde maggio from Loreley, by Catalani
- Scooping
- Gigli’s recordings
- Corelli’s favorite tenor
- Ave Maria by Tortorella
- Hines: Toscanini made us sing unnaturally
- Corelli’s favorite soprano
- What Corelli learned from Callas
- What he learned from Tebaldi and Nilsson
- Melocchi’s other students
- Del Monaco’s influence
- Giuseppe Di Stefano
- The difficulty of the laryngeal method
- The inhalation treatment that hurt Corelli’s voice
- Why Corelli stopped his career
- Live vs. studio recordings
- Corelli’s films: Magnifica ossessione andLa carovana nel deserto
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