Franco Corelli "L'amour... Ah! leve-toi, soleil!" (avec le souffleur) - The legendary diminuendo

Franco Corelli's diminuendo on the final note is magic.

(Gounod: Roméo et Juliette) Metropolitan Opera, October 16, 1967

Caveat: This recording contains the (frequently very loud) prompter (souffleur). On the other hand, you will hear magnificent singing from Corelli and Pilou, including possibly Corelli's longest, most beautiful diminuendos ever at the end of "Ah! lève-toi soleil!" and "Va! repose en paix!"

Roméo - Franco Corelli
Juliette - Jeannette Pilou
Frère Laurent - Justino Díaz
Mercutio - John Reardon
Stéphano - Marcia Baldwin
Tybalt - Charles Anthony
Gertrude - Shirley Love
Le comte Capulet - Clifford Harvuot
Le comte Pâris - Gene Boucher
Benvolio - Robert Schmorr
Grégorio - Lorenzo Alvary
Le duc de Vérone - Norman Scott
maestro direttore - Francesco Molinari-Pradelli

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