I just did a search for Siepi singing this song and came across your video, Amazing that you, a tenor, can sing this so "bassy." (Better probably than most basses could). Very Nice!
greetings from nordhausen my freind michael told me about your amazing voice and your wifes. I am a great fan. I listen to you and it helps me figure thing out in my own singing. thanks for the inspiration and keep up the great work.
Please do the Soiliquy too!!! There hasn't been a great one in 50 years!! Your tenor arias are terrific and I am horribly picky..... Hope to hear you live someday.
Wow, that was written 2 months ago. I don't think those comments were off the mark by too far. I am 29. I am not old enough to have failed yet. I may write back in 5 or 10 years and let you know that I have, but I am doing ok for now. Don't reply to my comments if they aren't important. If they are ridiculous, then they should condemn themselves. Siepi was a force of nature - he did 98% right, but that left 2%. I wish that I would some day even get 80% right.
Are you the same singer singer singing the Rigoletto Duke and Donizetti on your other video's? I'd never guess you could sing like this if I heard you sing tenor first. Sounds a bit like Leonard Warren at times as well as Siepi. Perhaps the room acoustics help? Many great Verdi baritone's have short low ranges. You ever sing baritone? Not that you don't sound like a legitimate tenor in the other video's. Almost sound like you could have your choice of tenor or baritone. Bravo!
bloody hell! that's amazing. i don't know siepi's voice so i can't comment on the impersonation but that sounded amazing! are you a pro singer? if not, you should stop doing impressions and sing porfessionally because your actual voice as an instrument, never mind the technique, is fantastic!!
You sound naturally a baritone! You could train yourself to be bass baritone or a baritenor. With that type of voice you could really choose in my opinion. O don't think you can choose both your voice adapts to your training
P.S. You talk like a Tenor... Tenors with huge voices as Borso or others like him are, saddly, just history. To have low notes and big coulored center doesn;t means you are a bass... neither if you cannot go further an E or G... tenors with huge vocies had to learn how to do this.
Highly interesting what you say! How come you say "you talk like a Tenor", I'd like to know because, surprisingly, I detected a "central" C3 in the word "singing", at 0:05. Me myself I tried to speak that note, and thought I all of a sudden realized that at C3 I seem to be that much, they say, at ease that there was "doing overtones" involutarily (there is another video on Spyre's channel where he does overtones, which might be underrated as bizarre). Again, how can a speaking voice at C3 - I am not a tenor "by nature", just "typical male" - be ranked tenor? Please explain, feel free too. At C3 I couldn't tell if it's C3 sharp or less; that might relate to "overtones". Just one more guess, thanks for lettin me talk in your "place": a tenor is able to do overtones in a speaking voice at C3 and it shows, in other words any fortitude in the tenor range be it gained or herited will express itself in some "constant craving" in a speaking voice in the central octave, in the central C. Opposed may be the hitting of notes and the modulation thereof.
Interesting thing to do. We know it's showing off/a goof, but it was fun to hear. I would blend this approach with your "legit" approach. You seem to be weak on the tenor stuff tentative in tone and an inability to center without attenuating your sound. Blend them - unless of course you felt a lot of strain/used your tongue to keep that sound dark. The acoustic on RU-vid are such crap it's hard to be certain of course.
Good voice... but you're not a bass... I think if you get more clear the words you could be sorprized that may be you are... PERHAPs a... well... let's let it in baritone... as oldest ones like Warren or Bastianini... not nowdays lazy tenors.
Not that you sound bad as a tenor - just not unique - and, ironically, there is probably more vocal fatigue from singing tenor the way you do than from mimicking Siepi using a darker tone accomplished by depressing the larynx and using deeper, more rounded the vowels. If you could find a way to do more of this approach without so much tongue and swallow involved - you'd be golden. But since almsot no one can nowadays - and clearly Siepi tongued too (he wasn't perfect) it is an uphill battle.
