Che meraviglia sentire questo repertorio nella sua lingua originale e con questa linea,pienezza, nobiltà che non è mai troppo austera e distaccata,ma sempre umana..

Che voce!

immenso Siepi!

I heard him in this role at the Met...it was wonderful

My father was lucky enough hearing him live. Siepi was not a tall man, rather of normal size or even short, as my father said. But what a voice! As a partisan, he spent some years of the Mussolini era in my homecountry, Switzerland.

he sounds really good as gurnemanz

A pity that Siepi rarely ventured outside the Italian repertoire, unlike his Met colleague Jerome Hines. Because his native language was Italian, he wound up being typecast. He did sing some French roles (Mephisto in Faust was pretty much "it" though) and the German roles he sang were Gurnemanz and Don Fernando (in Fidelio). However, he did sing French art songs and German lieder. As the above excerpt will attest, his German was nearly flawless. As was his French.

Dear immerallesbesserwisser Yes, thank you for that correction. On the photos, Siepi doesn't look short neither. Probably my father confounded him with someone else. How do I envy you having been close to him! May I ask you what were the occasions? Best regards, A. von Uri