Franco Corelli Interviewed on "Opera Fanatic," March 3, 1990
On March 3, 1990, Franco was interviewed by Stefan Zucker on the radio show "Opera Fanatic." Below are topics discussed. You can purchase the Interview at the Bel Canto Society Store.
Franco Corelli, Jerome Hines, Dodi Protero, Guests
Stefan Zucker, Host
TOPICS Include:
1. Total Interview Time: 2 hours, 56 minutes
2. Callas vs. Olivero
3. Callas’s technique
4. Her loss of voice
5. Hines on Olivero and Callas
6. The Rome Walkout
7. Maria Caniglia
8. Beniamino Gigli
9. Has singing changed in your time?
10. Bianca Scacciati
11. Miscasting
12. Picking singers to suit operas vs. picking operas to suit singers
13. American, Italian and German styles
14. German vs. Italian legato
15. The vowel "ah"
16. The German influence
17. Renato Cellini, the first Fascist at the Met after the war
18. Cloe Elmo. Corelli favors booing
19. Booing at the Met
20. Claques
21. Booing
22. Gigli’s influence on Del Monaco
23. Big voices and 16th notes
24. Leyla Gencer
25. The Rome Walkout and the lack of covers in Italy
26. When in America Italians display temperament
27. Corelli’s favorite among his performances
28. Stanford Olsen
29. Lina Pagliughi
30. Gino Bechi, Giangiacomo Guelfi, Leonard Warren, Robert Merrill, Cornell MacNeil, Ettore Bastianini and Titta Ruffo
31. Why Corelli did not sing Ballo
32. Corelli’s favorite conductors
33. Singing too loudly
34. Grace Bumbry
35. The tempos of Karajan and Bernstein
36. A conductor Corelli did not like
37. Does Corelli approve of the Met’s casting?
38. Why the Met’s orchestra is too loud
39. The Met’s choice of singers
40. What is a Verdian voice?
41. Iodine on vocal cords
42. The Del Monaco cocktail
43. Almond oil, cortisone
44. Douglas Stanley
45. The day of a performance
46. Enzo Sordello’s herbs and the steam in his room
47. Directors’ opera
48. The biggest voices
49. Francesco Merli, Giacomo Lauri Volpi, Birgit Nilsson, Richard Tucker, Anita Välkki, Helen Traubel, Caruso, Gino Penno
50. Sweet tenors vs. round tenors
51. A Corelli return as Otello
52. To return or not to return?
53. Nel verde maggio from Loreley, by Catalani
54. Scooping
55. Gigli’s recordings
56. Corelli’s favorite tenor
57. Ave Maria by Tortorella
58. Hines: Toscanini made us sing unnaturally
59. Corelli’s favorite soprano
60. What Corelli learned from Callas
61. What he learned from Tebaldi and Nilsson
62. Melocchi’s other students
63. Del Monaco’s influence
64. Giuseppe Di Stefano
65. The difficulty of the laryngeal method
66. The inhalation treatment that hurt Corelli’s voice
67. Why Corelli stopped his career
68. Live vs. studio recordings
69. Corelli’s films: Magnifica ossessione and La carovana nel deserto
