Franco Corelli on mask singing. Mask vs non mask singing examples.

Franco Corelli is being interviewed by Stefan Zucker on a radio podcast. A listener has written in and states that as well as singing with a low larynx, Corelli sings in the mask to get squillo. Corelli states that singing in the mask is incorrect. A side by side video comparing tenors Tito Schipa, and Alfredo Kraus, singing M’appari, from Flotows Martha. Both are leggiero tenors. Kraus is nasal and masky, Schipa is not.
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