Superstar tenor Franco Corelli made his Seattle Opera debut in one of his signature roles. Nobody had ever heard anything so glorious in Seattle, and the ovations were tremendous. In his memoirs, Glynn Ross remembers actually having to “shove him on stage"--Corelli was highly charismatic, but also extremely nervous. The English-language Frère Laurent was Leon Lishner, professor at the University of Washington for many years.