Franco Corelli: Corelli in Concert
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Actor: Franco Corelli, Jerome Hines, Stefan ZuckerDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Classical, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 52 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Bel Canto Society
Movie Reviews of Franco Corelli: Corelli in Concert
Movie Review: Is This The 1971 Tokyo Concert?
Summary: 5 Stars
I think this is possibly the same as the 1971 Tokyo Concert I reviewed under a different label elsewhere. But, this one is much less expensive! In any event, you can't go wrong buying this tape or DVD because Franco Corelli was one of "the greats" and anything he did was great! Just think how much it would cost to go to a concert these days and you'll realize this tape is priceless! (Please note: If it's the tape I have in mind please do NOT expect it to be a perfect studio type experience. It was probably taken off a TV transmission thus there'll be some video noise and the sound will not be hi-fi. But, it's worth it just the same because Mr. Corelli is deceased thus making this concert a rare opportunity to see him in his prime. Just don't complain about it, OK? "The glass is half full---not half empty"!!! :o) Email:boland7214@aol.
Summary of Franco Corelli: Corelli in Concert
On this tape Franco is very much himself. He sings to the audience as he sang to me in his living room--with the same gestures and mannerisms. And they love it! He flings himself into the encores with wild abandon. Gives spinal chills. The most personality of any Corelli video.Listen to Corelli play with the tempo in Ernesto De Curtis's "Tu ca nun chiagne." He introduces ritards and accelerations. Or listen to F. Paolo Tosti's "'A Vucchella," where Corelli twice eases back into tempo after (unduly) long fermatas. Yet he told me, "I didn't do rubato for fear of being squadrato [not with the conductor's beat]." In this concert he is squadrato in "O paradiso," on the word "paradiso."
The reality may have been that he was willing to sing with flexibility of tempo when with piano accompaniment, as in the De Curtis and Tosti songs, in which he sings with piano after the orchestra has left the stage.--Stefan Zucker