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2022-10-27 09:34:03
A Metropolitan Opera stagehand, Joseph Ancona, was dragged... The post Horror as young Met stagehand is killed on NY subway appeared first on Slippedisc.
2022-04-26 17:06:09
The German tenor Jonas Kaufmann has been named the inaugural recipient of the Corelli 100 award, which recognizes singers who have particularly distinguished themselves in the world of opera and aims to prolong the legacy of Franco Corelli. Kaufmann received the award on April 24 at the Mole Vanvitelliana in Ancona, the town where […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2021-04-19 13:49:18
Corelli 100
This Week in Classical Music: April 19, 2021. Franco Corelli. For the past two weeks we’ve been so busy with Karajan that we missed an important date: the 100th anniversary of Franco Corelli. Corelli was one of the greatest tenors of the 20th century, who excelled on the biggest opera stages of Europe and America and left a wonderful recording legacy. He had a clear, powerful voice with a wide range, what the Italians call “spinto” tenor: he could handle both the dramatic roles (think of Mario del Monaco in the role of Canio in Pagliacci or Radames in Aida) and the lyric ones (like Pavarotti singing Rodolfo in La Boheme). It didn’t hurt that Corelli was also a handsome man with good acting abilities. Franco Corelli was born in Ancona on April 8th of 1921. His grandfather was a successful opera singer and many other family members sung either professionally […]
2021-04-08 14:00:11
I, Franco
Franco Corelli was born on April 8, 1921 in Ancona and Trove Thursday celebrates the matinee-idol tenor’s centenary with a pair of his rare non-Met US appearances; seducing Marie Collier in La Fanciulla del West and vacillating between Ilva Ligabue and Grace Bumbry in Il Trovatore.
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