#cesare siepi

[mariodelmonaco108]

MARIO del MONACO

nei panni di Don Alvaro ne VERDI *La Forza del Destino* con Renata Tebaldi, Giulietta Simionato, Ettore Bastianini, Cesare Siepi e Fernando Corena.

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[4operalove]

Cesare Siepi as Boris Godunov

[revedebeatrice]

Cesare Siepi as Don Giovanni

Don Giovanni (Mozart), Salzburg, 1954

[twixnmix]

Vintage Sepia Magazine Covers

Vocalist Mabel Scott (August 1953)

Actress Dorothy Dandridge (February 1957)

Dancer Pat Clayton, wife of jazz trumpeter Buck Clayton (April 1958)

Actress Dawn Finney (May 1959)

Model Janie Burdette (August 1959)

Model Dorthea Towels (November 1959)

Jazz singer Sallie Blair (February 1960)

Dancers Geoffrey Holder and Carmen de Lavallade with their son (July 1960)

Opera singers Leontyne Price and Cesare Siepi (July 1961)

Pianist and composer Philippa Schuyler (June 1962)

[vera-dauriac]

Look at me, checking out new Don Giovannis just like I said I would.

[lessthansix]

Many operas end like Tosca with the sudden descent of the hero to some nether realm. Don Giovanni, however, (as in Zeffirelli's production for Covent Garden), tends simply to disappear amid whirling clouds of stage smoke as the chorus of off-stage demons promise him worse torments below. In Vienna, however, Cesare Siepi ended his admirable interpretation standing on a stagelift which, as so often happens, stuck halfway down, leaving his head and shoulders visible to the audience but not the rest of him. The technicians' efforts merely revealed the operation of one of the great laws governing opera disasters -- that the most that can be hoped for is to restore the status quo ante -- that is, they merely brought him back up again. Siepi then amazed the public by refusing simply to walk off and with courageous professionalism challenged the lift operator to a second attempt. Of course exactly the same thing happened, and amid the shocked silence of the Staatsoper a single voice rang out -- it is said in Italian -- ‘Oh my God, how wonderful -- hell is full.’

Great Operatic Disasters, Hugh Vickers (x)

[revedebeatrice]

I've been obsessed with basses lately (mostly Nicolai Ghiaurov 👀) and that obsession has manifested itself into a playlist... enjoy <3

[revedebeatrice]

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