WANTED: RECORDINGS, photographs, articles

We seek/ will buy original photographs, newspaper reviews, articles, letters, paychecks, recordings and other memorabilia regarding Franco Corelli or performances that he participated in. (Should you have such items and you do not want to contribute or to sell them, we will be happy to study any sort of reproduction you can provide us with.)

RecordingS

We are priamreily interested in recordings of Corelli's missing roles:

Live recordings

1952 ROME Boris Godunov
1953 ROME Enea (Guerrini)
1954 ROME Romulus (Allegra)
1954 ROME Iphigenia in Aulide (Gluck).
1956 SCALA Fedora (with Callas)
1957 LISBON Simon Boccanegra (Verdi)
1957 LISBON Khovanchina (Mussorgsky)
1957 OVIEDO Fedora (with Nora De Rosa under Nello Santi)
1958 SCALA Il pirata (Bellini)(with Callas)

Known to exist live-recordings
in order to establish whether our current discography of private recordings is accurate, we are looking for copies of the following performances, whose existence we have been, as yet, unable to verify:

* La fanciulla del West | Trieste | December 3, 1955
* Andrea Chénier | Naples | March 3, 1957
* Tosca | London | June 27, 1957 (not the one from July 1, that was published on cd by Legato, Living Stage and Covent Garden's Heritage Series)

CONTACT
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