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Corri is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Adrienne Corri (1931-2016), Scottish-born actress *Charles Corri ( 1862–1941), English musician, conductor, and arranger *Domenico Corri (1744–1826), Italian composer who migrated to England *Eugene Corri ( 1857−1933), British boxing referee *Fanny Corri-Paltoni (1801-1861), British operatic soprano See also *Corri English (born 1978), American actress and singer *Corri Wilson Corraine Wilson (born 11 April 1965) is an Alba Party politician who was previously the Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock from 2015 to 2017. Early life Wilson worked in the Civil Service for 2 ...
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Domenico Corri
Domenico Corri (4 October 1746 – 22 May 1825) was an Italian composer, impresario, music publisher, and voice teacher. Career Corri was born in Rome and studied voice with Nicola Porpora in Naples. The son of a confectioner in a religious house, the Cardinal Portocaro nearly persuaded young Corri to study for the priesthood; but his musical aptitude early asserting itself, he found himself in Naples, a pupil of Porpora. In the house of this prince of singing masters—himself a pupil of Scarlatti and the world-renowned master of Mingotti and Farinelli—Corri boarded for five years (1763-1767), and chiefly owed his introduction into the best English society at Rome to the fame of Porpora and the estimation in which that great singer was held by a section of our nobility. In 1771 he moved to Scotland with his wife Francesca Bachelli (1749?-1802) to take up a position as a musician for the Edinburgh Musical Society. The Edinburgh Musical Society actually wanted to recruit Bac ...
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Adrienne Corri
Adrienne Corri (born Adrienne Riccoboni; 13 November 1931 – 13 March 2016) was a Scottish actress. Early life She was born Adrienne Riccoboni in Glasgow in November 1931, the daughter of an English mother (Olive Smethurst) and an Italian father (Luigi Riccoboni; sometimes spelt Reccobini). In the 1930s, her father Luigi (known as Louis) ran the Crown Hotel in Callander, Stirling. She had one brother. Career Corri may be best known for one of her smaller parts, that of Mary Alexander, wife of the writer Frank Alexander (played by Patrick Magee), in Stanley Kubrick's dystopian ''A Clockwork Orange'' (1971). Corri, not originally cast in the film, was offered the role after two actresses had already withdrawn from the production, one of them, according to Malcolm McDowell (who played Alex DeLarge), because she found it "too humiliating – because it involved having to be perched, naked, on Warren Clarke's (playing "Dim the Droog") shoulders for weeks on end while Stanley ...
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Charles Corri
Charles Montague Corri (22 June 1861 – 8 June 1941) was an English musician, conductor and arranger. He spent most of his career working for Lilian Baylis, as her musical director at the Old Vic Theatre, and then at Sadler's Wells Opera. Life and career Corri was born in Walworth, London, the son of William Charles Cunningham Corri and Maria Louisa Pennal. He came from an Italian family of musicians who settled in Britain in the 18th century. ''Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' lists eight members of the Corri family active as musicians in Britain from 1771 onwards, which includes Domenico Corri, Sophia Corri Dussek, Philip Antony Corri, and Fanny Corri-Paltoni. In 1898, Emma Cons, who ran the Old Vic Theatre, engaged him as musical director. At the same time she recruited her niece Lilian Baylis to help run the theatre."Obituary – Mr. Charles Corri", ''The Times'', 13 June 1941, p. 7 The Old Vic was operated on a small budget for the benefit of the local commun ...
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Fanny Corri-Paltoni
Fanny Corri-Paltoni (born Frances or Francesca Corri) (1801 – 13 July 1861) was a celebrated British operatic soprano active in Europe between 1818 and 1835. It was said that she possessed a voice of remarkable beauty and that she had a fine singing technique. She particularly excelled in the operas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Gioachino Rossini. Biography Born Frances or Francesca Corri in Edinburgh, she was the daughter of Italian composer Natale Corri (1765–1822). Her uncle Domenico Corri (1746–1825) was an important singing master and composer in Edinburgh. Her cousin Sophia Dussek (''née'' Corri) was a famous soprano. Corri-Paltoni studied singing first with her father and then with Angelica Catalani and John Braham in London. She toured Continental Europe with Catalani in 1815–1816. She was committed to the King's Theatre in London between 1818–1820, making her professional opera debut at the theatre as the Countess in ''Le Nozze di Figaro'' on 17 January 1 ...
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Eugene Corri
Eugene Corri (c. 1857 − 21 December 1933) was a boxing referee. He was well-known and popular in the U.K., and was himself a boxer in his youth. His father changed his surname from Corry to Corri to make it appear more Italian in the hopes of furthering his singing career. Corri refereed over 2,000 fights, including Mickey Walker against Tommy Milligan in 1927. He makes an appearance as himself in Alfred Hitchcock's silent movie ''The Ring'' (1927), introduced to the audience by the MC. He was one of the original members of the National Sporting Club The National Sporting Club was a club founded in London in 1891, which did more to establish the sport of boxing in Great Britain than any other organisation. Origins The club was founded on 5 March 1891 as a private club. Its premises were at .... He published several books, including ''Fifty Years in the Ring'', which appeared the summer before he died. He died in Southend on 21 December 1933(note: references behind pa ...
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Corri English
Corri English (born Corri Englisby; May 10, 1978) is an American actress. Life and career As a young girl during the late 1980s and early 1990s, she was a frequent host of '' Kid's Beat'' and a few other kids shows on TBS (prior to the merger of Turner Broadcasting System with Time Warner), including ''Feed Your Mind'', which she co-hosted with Johntá Austin. She is the singer for country band Brokedown Cadillac. English was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Georgia with a degree in journalism. She worked with actress Danielle Panabaker twice in 2004—once in ''Stuck in the Suburbs'' and later in ''Searching for David's Heart''. She is also a longtime friend of actress Christine Lakin, with whom she produced a short film. From 2012 to 2013 she starred in the Fearnet on-demand series ''Holliston''. She also co-starred in the same year with Tyler Mane and Traci Lords in Jason Cuadrado's Horror-Thriller film Devil May Call. Sh ...
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