Product Details

• Format: Classical, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Bel Canto Society
• VHS Release Date: November 18, 1997
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 630473381X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #559,515 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a treasure!, September 19, 2000

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Susana Alves (Portugal) - See all my reviews

This review is from: In Concert [VHS] (VHS Tape)

In this video, for those who had not the fortune to see Mo. Corelli on live performances, this is the only one available besides CORELLI and TEBALDI in Concert (Japan). I have no words to describe Mo. Corelli art of singing. His VOICE is wonderful, rich, bold, sweet, unreal. The very moment I've heard Mo. Corelli singing, I were completely fascinated by his timbre, color and warm he placed on his VOICE. I believe Mo. Corelli is unique, and although Caruso were considered the King of Tenors, Mo. Corelli, in my modest opinion, is greater than Caruso. Someone said abouth Franco Corelli as being the Prince of Tenors. Mo. Corelli has no rival. Not even the three tenors (Carreras, Domingo and Pavarotti ) make us forgetting Mo. Corelli. When Franco Corelli, in one of his interviews, said that in one of his performances, after singing an area for about three and half minutes, the audience applauded him for about twenty seven minutes and he didn't know why. I know why, his VOICE and his performance on stage brought the house down. The audience and his public were completely surrendered to the beauty of his VOICE, speccially the portamento and sentimento he always gave to his singing. After hearing Mo. Corelli singing, I'm unable to listen anyonelse. Opera is not easy, but Franco Corelli made it live! Thank you Franco Corelli for what you left to us! What a treasure!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Concert!, February 18, 2002

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Visa (Norway, Kristiansand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: In Concert [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This video is not just for all the Corelli fans, but also for those who are interested in the human voice in its different ways...and true, Corelli was different!
The sound here is ok, but has unfortnately some disturbing noice in every arias intro, but when the voice of "thunder and lightning, fire and blood" begins to sing, you will ignore it.
Mr Corelli starts this concert with "Questa o qella..." in a fast tempo. Maybe too fast, beacause he sometimes is a little out of beat and text. But he almost makes you forget about it after a glorious B-flat in the end of the aria.
"Un di all'azzuro spazio..." from Andrea Chenier is the next and here Corelli is getting warmer. This version is superb with Corellis legatos, crescendos and decrescendos. And so he goes on to the next piece; "O, Paradiso..." In this one the first B-flat is taken so gently, strong and brilliant at the same time, that it led me to the rewindbutton twice. And what an incredible fullvoiced B-flat in the end of this aria. Corelli is in marvelous form here and after I heard these two arias, I realised that he must have been stronger than a bull.
In the "Che gelida manina..." he is too heavy, I think, even though it is transposed down a half tone. But in the last phrase he really demonstrates his abnormal breathcontrol.
After this one we can here a magnificent version of "Ch'ella mi creda..." What a powerfull voice!
The next one from Le Cid is not so good. I think he is a little bit tired at this point. And it may explains the very short versions of 4 famous italian songs. But here again Corelli gives enormous high notes of atomic power.
I simply give this video 4 stars beacause of three arias who are delivered in such a powerfull and beautiful way, and for the high notes of ATOMIC POWER!