“Franco Corelli and a Revolution in Singing” by Stefan Zucker is a Valentine’s Day gift to myself. Like the Energizer battery, it keeps on going. The photographs and illustrations are truly ...

The debate over the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Puccini’s “Tosca” shows no sign of dying down, three weeks after the opening night. The ever-thought-provoking Parterre Box site, for example ...

Franco Corelli, the Italian tenor whose powerhouse voice, charismatic presence and movie-star good looks earned him the adoration of opera fans from the 1950s until his retirement in 1976, died on ...

Tenor Franco Corelli was remembered Thursday as one of the greatest opera stars of the 20th century, a singer whose ringing, versatile voice and strapping good looks thrilled audiences at New York’s ...

The Metropolitan Opera was once known as a “singers’ house.’’ That phrase reflected the fact that, since the 19th century, it had the greatest singers in the world. It also suggested that stage ...

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