Lebendige Vergangenheit - Cesare Siepi (Vol.2)
Artist | Cesare Siepi |
Title | Lebendige Vergangenheit - Cesare Siepi (Vol.2) |
Release Date | Monday, August 14, 2006 |
Genre | Classical > Choro |
Composers | Charles Gounod, Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Sergej Wassiljewitsch Rachmaninoff, Giacomo Puccini, Jacques Fromental Halevy, Vincenzo Bellini, Antonio Carlos Gomes |
Songwriters | Cesare Siepi / Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera / Lawrence Davidson, Cesare Siepi / Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Celilia, Cesare Siepi / The little Orchestra Society, Cesare Siepi / Orchestra of Radio Italiana, Milan, Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Celilia / Cesare Siepi, Ferruccio Tagliavini / Orchestra of Radio Italiana, Milan / Cesare Siepi, Cesare Siepi / Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera / Eugene Conley |
Copyright | © Preiser Records |
Country | AUSTRIA |
Promotion Text
Lebendige Vergangenheit
Cesare Siepis Gesangs-Karriere war äußerst lang und abgesehen von einigen Alterserscheinungen blieb seine Stimme bis zum Schluß intakt. Ab Ende der 1950er Jahre sang er auch in Musicals, wie z.B. in "South Pacific" von Rodgers und Hammerstein, das schon Ezio Pinza zu großem Erfolg verholfen hatte. Seine Kollegin Giulietta Simionato - ebenso wie Siepi im Jahr 2010 verstorben – bezeichnete ihn als grand seigneur der Opernbühne, Vielleicht beschreibt ein Zitat des Tenors Giacomo Lauri Volpi am besten Siepis Wirkung auf sein Publikum: "Er schöpft seinen Gesang aus der Tiefe seiner Seele". Siepi´s career was an exceptionally long one and apart from some wear and tear in later years, the voice remained largely intact until the end. In later years he also turned his attention to American Musical, "South Pacific" by Rodgers and Hammerstein, for example, in which he was as successful as Ezio Pinza had been before him. Giulietta Simionato - who, like Siepi, died in 2010 - dubbed him the grand seigneur of the operatic stage. Maybe a quotation by Giacomo Lauri Volpi describes best Cesare Siepi´s effect on his public: "He has found the melody in the depth of his soul."