Mirella Freni & Cesare Siepi - Live in Concert 

Eddie Lew You happy one !!! I am jealous !!!

Shahrdad 😂😂😂😂😂 you say that?

@@rodrigoorrego7866 His son was one of my good friends in college. I spent a few days with Mr. Siepi and his family, and they couldn't have been any kinder or more generous. A year or two later, I got a phone call and it was him, asking if I wanted to come and see him sing in San Francisco, which I did. His voice was absolutely huge, and when he went for the low notes, you thought the ceiling was going to cave in.

@@Shahrdad I had got the impression of a very decent man so it's nice to have direct confirmation. I envy that you heard him live too. It's nice to hear confirmation of his power too. That much seems pretty clear from recordings but I did once hear a great tenor live and his voice barely carried the middle of the hall. Thank you.

I've heard great opera singers live, and all of them have unbelievable, almost unimaginable voices. This great tenor either had a bad night or maybe wasn't so great. Do you mind saying who it was? For instance Pavarotti didn't have a dramatic voice, but they say his voice carried very well. Same for Gigli.

And he was an anti-fascist as well

Thank you !

*THANKS A LOT, MOLTO BENE!!!* 🖖👽👍🛸🛸🛸

Fatima Dewrischewa Siepi is 64 here. He ist 2 years older. I know it from a banker in Macerata, who saw his passport when he sent money to his conto for his singing of Don Carlo.

​@@achmedmohamed4708 Quindi lui veramente è nato al 1921 e non 1923??

Peter Graham Siepi was born 1921. I know it from a banker from Macerata where he sang Don Carlo. He saw his passport when he sent the money into the Swiss. Since 1974 I traveled after Siepi wherever he sang in Europe and I had time to follow him in his European career, after the end at the Met. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oHKqK6ctSdY.html

@@achmedmohamed4708

Thanks for that bit of info about Siepi‘s birthdate. Hardly matters anyway whether he was 66, 65, or 63. He is still in fabulous shape in the concert with Freni. In 1984 Siepi was singing in LA SONNAMBULA in Seattle & I drove downtown just to hear him sing VI RAVISSO. Before then his chief competition in this music, IMO, had been Ezio Flagello but by 1984 the latter, although some 10 years younger than Siepi, was a bit past his best years. I am only talking about the period after the mid 1950‘s in making this comparison.

BassoProfundo20 Wow. You surprise me. And I like Kurt Moll v. much.

mlcollins10 Basso-baritono, a spinto. The best of his & perhaps of all time.

a1b2c3d4e5 f6g7h8i9j0 I beg to heartily disagree w you. I saw him Live at the Met as well as know him from his many recordings. I would list as basses: Ezio Pinza, Fernando Corena, Samuel Ramey, Kurt Moll, & René Pape. As basso profondo: Nicolai Ghiaruov, Franz Crass, Marti Talvela, Ivan Rebroff, Boris Christoff, Chaliapi, Gottlob Frick & ofc a few others, very few.

He ' very good Artist...! C.Siepi 'voice remember me N.Gyaurov 's voice,too.... In Bolchoy Theatre ,in 60-th was great Bass Marc Reysen...spetially in "Spade Dame" by P.I.Tchaykovsky... It was very good idia to make the Concerto with Mirella...

@@mckavitt There leads no road from Siepi to Kurt Moll.

Mario a la edad e 84 anos, canto hasta los 70

Es verdad murió después de 80 años…

Bruno Picaude Siepi is 64 years here. I know it from a banker of Macerata who saw his passport.

@@achmedmohamed4708 So this concert is from 1987 ?

This concert was in 1985, Siepi was 62 and Freni 50 :-)

@@raphaelpisano5462 Wikipedia says that his year of birth is debated. If he was born in 1919 (as some claim) he would have been 66.

The sad case is that opera is a dead art, sure there’s a handful of very good singers around but the “golden age” is very much behind us now. Many so-called “stars” today would not have moved beyond the chorus in the 40’s, to the 70’s.

@@TheVaughan5 Right you are. We would dream to hear young artists singing like the old ones ! There are no equivalent to these opera golden age singers.

Ghiaurov at 26:52 in pubblic!!

thankyou so much

deux tres grandes voix toujours tres belles

Там выше написали, 1985-й

1985

Technique matters, but his great voice is a gift from above.

He is using perfect bel canto technique. Always the perfect coordination of chest and falsetto on every note, the perfect pharyngeal resonance space for every vowel, sul fiato, from an extremely open throat. He's using his voice in the acoustically most efficient way.

Yes, Cesare didn`t leave us much to read about him but left us his example of a Great, Great Singer and Human Being!

He sings correctly

Giovanni Idono It is his "open" head his upper resonances in nose and head-holes. Hear his half-vocals m, n, l and w.

Dove?

@@manolis.799 26:52

In centro sinistra, due signori di una certa etá

No non è corelli, non so chi sia purtroppo

eoselan7 I had exactly the same experience. Except for the voice, Siepi is unrecognisable, yet still handsome. Freni is still Freni. Both great artists, imo.

1985. www.prestoclassical.co.uk/classical/products/7983800--mirella-freni-cesare-siepi-in-concert-1985

Ciepi is roughly 62 as he was born 1923, Freni is roughly 51, she was born in 1934.

@@clefnoteproductions6695 Freni (and Pavarotti) born 1935 both in Modena.

@@clefnoteproductions6695 Siepi was born 1921. I know it from a banker in Macerata who saw his passport.

The imbecile Schuyler Chapin - who took over the General Manager position in 1973 and was the most incompetent person who ever held that job - refused to rehire him.

@@NYCOPERAFAN Thanks. He also managed to drive Tebaldi out. And people who were at that last ‘Otello’ tell me it was by no means disastrous.

@@ransomcoates546 I HAVE TEBALDIS LAST DESDEMONA ON REEL TO REEL TAPE....1973 AT THE MET WITH MCCRACKEN ........THE VOICE SOUNDS SWEET ...SMOOTH...SUMPTUOUS EVERY BIT RECOGNISABLE AS HER..SEEMINGLY INTACT. ONLY TWO BREIF POINTS SHE SINGS SLIGHTLY FLAT ON THE LONG HELD PIANISSIMO IN THE DUET...AND THE FINAL NOTE OF THE AVE MARIA...IS SLIGHTLY UNDER........BUT THE REST....STUNNING......MCCRACKEN HERE IS TOTALLY OUTSUNG BY HER....HER HIGHNOTES ARE OVERWHELMING ......HER LEGATO NEVER SAGS...THE LINE SEEMS TO GO ON FOREVER......SHE USES GREAT DINAMICS THROUGHOUT...HER PIANO SINGING IS STILL HEAVENLY TO HEAR...AND HER VOICE DOMINATES AT ALL TIMES.....ESPECCIALLY ABOVE CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA..IN THE BIG CONCERTATO BEFORE THE LAST ACT.!

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Leo Smart Siepi was born 1921 not 1923. I know this from a banker of Macerata.

@@achmedmohamed4708 On Wikipedia it says: "Born in Milan (his year of birth is debated between 1919 and 1923, though 1923 is given as official)." Even if we are to assume that this banker more reliably knew his true birth year, 2 years should not make much of a difference in terms of voice.