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RECORDING INFORMATION To celebrate Decca's 75th year of recording — the launch of a new series of Classic Recitals from the LP era. Decca’s recorded legacy is dominated by the huge number of complete opera recordings and vocal recitals. While a vast number of these recordings have seen CD release in the past 20 years, many of the original LP recitals have been reissued with other material in order to increase the overall playing time due to the longer time available on CD, and modern covers have replaced the originals. This new mini-series is unashamedly nostalgic and presents original recitals as they were first published during the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. Original LP cover art is reproduced and the original back of the LP is used as the inside of the digipack. A clear tray is used with a detail from the original LP sleeve as a background, and the back of the digipack gives the tracklist and artist details in a uniform, current style. This programme of operatic duets with Renata Tebaldi and Franco Corelli is released as one of the first group of CLASSIC RECITALS as a tribute to Corelli who died on 29 October 2003 at the age of 82. With his matinée idol looks and a heroic voice, Corelli was a massively popular figure who starred in many operas with the greatest leading ladies of his day. World-famous names that are linked with his on the operatic stage include Callas, Nilsson, Tebaldi and Leontyne Price. It was with Renata Tebaldi that Corelli appeared on the second night of the opening of the new Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center in La Gioconda in 1961, and a duet from the opera is included here. (Corelli’s Met debut had taken place earlier in 1961 when he sang Manrico opposite another rising young star, Leontyne Price.) Corelli’s stage debut had taken place in Spoleto in 1951 when he sang Don José; and during the 1950s and 1960s his appearance in an opera was a guarantee of a sell-out performance. His greatest roles included, in addition to Manrico and Don José, Calaf, Cavaradossi, Radamès, Canio and Pollione. It was in 1975, at the age of just 54, that Corelli decided to retire from opera when, after singing Rodolfo in La Bohème at Puccini’s birthplace, Torre del Lago, he announced that he was cancelling all further operatic performances. Apart from a couple of recitals in New Jersey during the late 1970s and a solitary song given in a tribute concert for Birgit Nilsson, Corelli had retired from singing. This recital of duets with Renata Tebaldi was made in the summer of 1972 and is a fitting tribute to one of the great vocal partnerships in opera, showcasing as it does the two singers in excerpts from four popular Italian operas, as well as an extended scene from one of the rarities of the repertory, Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini. |
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