Ten years ago today, I published the first post here. Almost 900 articles have followed. To mark the date, here are three videos presented for no other reason than that they are beautiful and on topic. It’s no accident that liberty is at the core of all three.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUAsgHN__8E
Happy Anniversary!! Thank you so much for my favorite site…..il.mio favorito!!
Did you actually meet Franco Corelli I would be interested in talking to you. We are doing a documentary on him
Heard him sing often, but never met him off stage.
I met Franco Corelli after a performance of Fanciulla. He was upset about little applause and didn’t know the program said no applause until the end of each act. But when he saw us teen girls saying how we loved it so, he turned to us, awed by my friends tears on her face and the front of her dress. Like in a trance, he gently reached out and touched my friend’s cheek saying, “I can see.” For such a great star to be so affected by teens I thought incredible. And….the man was fantastically handsome. No pictures do him justice. Saw him again after Chenier. He remembered us.