IT IS not for nothing that the term “prima donna” is borrowed from the world of opera. Yet the best examples are by no means always women. Tenors have an equal, some would say a better, claim.

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 ...

ROME — Franco Corelli, whose large, ringing voice and matinee-idol looks made him one of the leading tenors of the 20th century, has died, the ANSA news agency said. He was 82. Corelli had been ...

Franco Corelli, whose ringing tenor voice and matinee-idol looks made him one of the top opera stars of the 20th century, has died in Milan. By Billboard Staff Franco Corelli, whose ringing tenor ...

Andrea has described how his nanny Orianna encouraged his love of music, and opera, in particular. One day, at the family home in Lajatico, she gave him a recording of Corelli performing the opera ...

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 ...

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 ...

Franco Corelli, 82, whose ringing tenor voice and matinee-idol looks made him one of the top opera stars of the 20th century, died Oct. 29 at a hospital in Milan. He had been hospitalized in August ...

One of the most exciting tenors of the 20th century, Franco Corelli, who has died aged 82, had a voice that was as handsome as his appearance. When I first heard him, in Tosca at Covent Garden, in ...

Franco Corelli, who has died in Milan aged 82, could lay claim to be the most exciting tenor of the 20 years or so from 1955; his stentorian voice, first heard to arresting effect at Covent Garden in ...

Franco Corelli, opera singer: born Ancona, Italy 8 April 1921; married 1958 Loretta di Lelio; died Milan 29 October 2003. Italian tenors are traditionally thought to be short, fat and not very ...