I have an octave lower on him. And a few more notes lower than that. I already am and am going to be famous. I played basketball with The Devil in 1997. I am the best lead guitarist ever too. I played improv classical rock. I cant play and never practiced - just record. Youtube "PRONE DRONE" for proof. I bet you money I would be the best singer to use a "Beiber Vocal Correctioner".
@Gandalf930 haha, right you are! claiming that they can do it better just make me laugh everytime. let them even STAY in front of such a big audience would make them shit in their pants ;-)
God how I love hitting these notes. Any basses out there willing to tell me if me being a 16 year old and hitting these with ease is any accomplishment? (Note im only 5'11 180 pounds idk if that has anything to do with it)
@thesir27 basso profondos get that alot I'm one to not laugh when entering that low resonating range is hard enough to do even if you take out the fact that phonation in that range takes weeks to get used to
Yes, It's a low "C" and it amuses me how some of you responders are so taken with this as being a "low" note. Go to the Gospel Bass section of youtube and you will discover that this low C is not a low note but rather routine and that the "low" notes are generally 4 or 5 steps below that low C. The same holds true with the tenors. Quit being impressed with the high "C" an octave above middle C..and listen to the gospel tenors singing 4 and 5 steps above that. There's a big world out there!
@dslowell I don't think a lot of people are taken with just how low the note is — I, for one, am amazed by the quality and pitch put together, and the range of his voice whilst still keeping the same beautiful quality..
@Jextxadore I agree, the quality of this low C is simply spectacular. It is absolutely insane. As a young bass singer, I would consider killing for a similar note of such high quality. As far as other singers producing notes below this, most of them ruin the rest of their range in doing so. This is simply tremendous.
@Jextxadore You are right and I am wrong but for a different reason. You are impressed and you have complimented this singer. Regardless of whether or not the note is low, or of high quality, I should have encouraged you by writing something positive. It's easy to "Dis" something or someone....it is also, very empty. There is way too much negative out there, and I unfortuantely contributed to it ... for which I apologize. This singer is an excellent bass singer. You are correct!
Siepi was probably the most versatile singer. If he had been more of a risk taker, he might have been as big as Pavarotti, but he chose to sing each role as written. Cesare was a man who appreciated the integrity of the pieces. You can't find anybody who can sing Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Cole Porter with as much precision as he. Even as short a time he learned English, he sang it almost as if he had been doing so his whole life. He sang not only beautifully, but respectfully.
What all you punk ass kids don't realize is that this is a note sung before a huge audience unmike'd. The enormity of the sound that is required is beyond what most can realize. Sure, quite a few can burp up a note like this, and many can make that sound special with a mike. But to actually sing a note like this in an opera is something different entirely...
I didn't have my keyboard out but that sounded like a D. I am a tenor and can sing the C below that although it sounds like crap and a bit over-fried. Range is irrelevant, what matters are the colour and texture of the voice.
All singers wanting a professional career should have about a 3 octave range. As a tenor, the ability to reach lower notes informs the resonance of my voice in the middle of the tenor staff and the ability to sing high gives squillo to the lower notes.
stop saying this note isnt lowanyone can growl a C, in fact anyone could growl notes off the piano, a bit like the frightening 40decibelC1 of JDsumners(which is as loud as background noise i.e. what you hear as "no sound"). the kind of projection required to fill a concert hall over an orchestra which is what he is doing is a real note is quite unbelievable at this pitch. pop singers would look like kitens compared to siepi or any operatic bass. voices like this are rare for a reason
I love Siepi's voice, he is my favorite bass. I am a bass as well, and my low C sounds pretty similar....according to my other half. Its my very lowest note.
Will link up me singing Eh Eukhnem (Volga boatmen's song) when I made it into a movie. I don't think I sound like a guy too much but I do sound androgynous...
I can't hit soprano C my voice actually ends (all sound) way before that- but I can 'fry' that bass C xD
Last note I can sing before it sounds awful is G2/F2. I remind you I am a woman.
It scared the crap out of my bf when I sang G2 tho :D
Like he has the same vocal range that I do :o
All my power is below middle C >.<
I think I am contralto because of gender but I feel more comfortable singing baritone roles because I have major fail with higher notes and make loud low notes
@Excogitant If you can do G2 creditably I would classify you as a basement contralto (same range as Tamara Sinyavskaya and Sonia Prina.) Most such singers cannot, in fact, sing a C6 well. Finding repertory is a challenge with such voices but it is out there if you look (Mahler songs, for example.)
I someone thinks that this is "insane low" then he/she hasn't researched or even searched YouTube proberly. This is regular bass territory, I can almost sing it and I'm closer to a baritone.
It IS a very low note, and the lowest any operatic bass is likely to encounter. Many basses cannot hit the low C...or Db. I can sing a low C, but few bass roles require notes below the D...not interpolated I mean. If you can manage a Db, I would assume you were a bass-baritone, not a baritone. I sang baritone for years, but I was actually a bass with a good top...up to the easily sustained Ab. That caused some confusion, my top notes seemed more like a baritone's.
@Hako2004 very low, yes. Operatic basses don't go very low, compared to basses in other genres. Insane is not a very apt word, that was my point. Yes, I might be considered a bass-baritone, that's probably the best description (E2-F#4) is my comfortable chest range. In choirs, I'm usually 1st bass.
@GhostGuitars Wow! It's so frustrating you can't have those notes along at any time! Wake up with a beautiful D2, finish the day with an F2 if I'm lucky enough not to have it sharp! Dang.
Struggling with F/E at the moment but I'm feeling healthier now so meh. I'm really working on higher notes and Roxanne range, this was just a random bonus/anomaly!
@GhostGuitars I struggle with goddamn E or even F every day after dinner, and it's so frustrating if I consider I've been hitting D2s loads of times. By the way, what would that make me? considering I have trained myself to hit an F4 decently. No way I can go up to F#. All I know is I sing 2nd bass :D
@NicktheIrishman I'm prety much back to health so G is the limit and thats not easy. Ah well, easy come easy go, at least I can get the high ones again!
I have no idea about where the ranges lie but I do know its based around where you are most natural, not the extremes of your range
@witness124 Yes it is! good Ear. I performed with Cesare On-Broadway in 1979. I looked up from the pit [I played drums] and wondered where that BIG voice was coming from. Amazing indeed. The show was Carmelina. His voice was better than the show tho. it closed in a week. But the band liked the music!! John-Hans Melcher
You're full of BS. I'm a bass opera singer and can tell you how difficult it is to sing a C2-with a full timbre, tone, and volume-over an orchestra and sing it so everyone in the house can hear it. This may not be the lowest note ever, but it sure as hell is impressive enough to warrant a better response from you.
@Jpmadore1 No need to get rude. I agree the performance is quite impressive, however, the description says, "INSANE LOW NOTE!!!! " Insane performance, but my regular speaking voice centers around G1.
It's from "Les Huguenots"-the C actually isn't written in the original sheet music, but it's sort of become a standard for basses to sing it that way.
@Jpmadore1 thank you for saying this, i have looked at several different versions of "les huguenots" hoping to find the written low c and i never have
@Mad4Heroes one day justin bieber will have so much semen is his throat that he will not be able to speak anymore. that will be the day that everyone will dream of....
I can sing a great C2 as well, but I can tell you how difficult it is to sing such a low note and project it clearly into the audience while still having a nice tone to it. THAT is what many, many people CAN'T do.
That low note sounds like a C2. I can pretty much guarrantee that most guys ain't gonna be hitting that note---and especially with the power and resonance of Siepi. Lots of guys can croak a C2--maybe.
@djlucy1 And what about his high note piannissimos? He was probably the greatest Don Giovanni of his day. Who equalled him, much less surpassed him? Fortunately, i saw him in one of his last Met performances as the Don. After it, i went to see him backstage and he was sitting round-shouldered and smoking! He's looked like a god onstage. Now that's talent.
y'know i listen to this and think wow thats low. but then i sing along with it, and instead of dropping to the c at the end i go up to the octave and sing the c below middle c, and that brings into contrast how low and difficult it really is to project a low c as well as siepi does here.
@DanyNicola a bass baritone should be able to project an f well. with strength resonance and tone. if you can hardly hit it after half a day then you are a baritone, and a high one at that.
you forget that without the middle there is no connection between high and low notes - thus creating trash... try listening to a choir without "those typical middle voicers"...
not bad... cesare siepi is definitely one of the best basses ive ever heard, you? regardless of whether or not he was the lowest, which he of course wasnt, he has one of the fullest and richest tones and timbre i have ever heard. im sure his range extended a certain ways below this c if he could hit it over an orchestra as well.
@dbikeguy. I agree with everything you say about Siepi's voice. I am a bass myself, and I envy him. I think Robert Lloyd summed it up when he said: "Never has a bass come closer to rivalling a tenor." I agree that singing such low notes would be swamped by the orchestra. But Siepi's forte is further up the register. Sorry to disagree with Bing Crosby, but THAT'S where the money is.
@dbikeguy Two things. First Lloyd's programme was called "The Six Foot Cinderella" which was complaining that the basses were overlooked, while audiences came to see the tenor. This is not the case with Siepi. Secondly, Siepi's voice is remarkably free of pondorosity, and thus rivals a tenor's
@dbikeguy Don't know. All I can tell you is that it was broadcast in the UK around 1986 on BBC2. Lloyd gave his big four basses of all time: Siepi, Pinza, Shalyapin, Robeson. I wouldn't disagree with that, although I would add Pol Plancon. I thought it was quite a good programme about the bass voice. Robert Lloyd, in case you didn't know, is no mean basso himself.
yeah i knew he was a bass haha. i wish i could see that.. but it was probably never offered for purchase and there is probably nothing for it on the internet
Show me some famous opera basses who can sing lower, there aren´t any and when they can do so their high notes aren´t in the right place...the most Osmin singers have very heavy voices but nearly no one can hit the low D well enough...sure, if you HAVE the time to can prepare your body for those low notes as in this example here. Ciepi has this low C and also a very good high F, has has an ultimate ambitus!
Henri Medus was able to go a little lower than Siepi and he could sing up to an F4, but A. Medus is unfortunately little-known today, and B. Medus was a profondo, not a cantabile like Siepi. I disagree with your statement that there are no operatic basses lower than Siepi, but I do agree that Siepi has an ultimate ambitus.
@Jpmadore1 Hi, JP. I cannot find the damn thing i wrote about Siepi's having been a cyclist. You are probably right that i mixed him up with Pinza, but that's as far as the confusion goes. Also, did you see the legs on Siepi??? Gorgeous. Cyclist legs. Oh well, do you know if he ever studied to do or did anything else before becoming the DON GIO of the 20th century? Thanks for bringing me down to earth:)
I know that he never intended to become a singer, since he had intentions of becoming a teacher instead. It was only until he won at some singing contest that he changed his career path.
Moll is totally overrated, his voice focus is somewhere in the neck with a froggy-sounding, bad technical educated focus, it simply sounds ugly.
Siepi sounds like a REAL bass, besides, he has an A#4 (Don Giovanni) -.- i don´t think, that Moll had the abilities to sing Don Giovanni-.- but Siepi as a Baron Ochs or Osmin, why not? He has everything a world-class bass has to; he sings WITH technique, especially low notes HAVE TO BE sharp, otherwise u dont hear them in the audience
@WhiteProfondo 6 months ago you declared that Siepi wasn't a real bass on the Le Veau D'or video. You've got no credibility when it comes to judging vocal technique, considering in a matter of months you switched from declaring Cesare Siepi not a real bass to just as emphatically declaring he is. While I'm glad you've come to the obvious (Siepi is a real bass! News flash!), you clearly don't know what you're talking about when it comes to singing. Moll is certainly a real bass.
it's not that low, but it's an opera low C... that's just without mic in a big hall... ask the country basses to do that and you'll see... and hear nothing... ;)
If you're fach is a bass can you sing...say below G below low C or does it take a while to train? Cause I was told since my break is at a middle C# I'm probably a bass, but I can sing low only sometimes to a F or E but not very good. I just started singing at 24 and havent got into my headvoice yet....
@adamskyb You sound like a baritone to me. To my knowledge a typical bass can hit that E no problem. You usually don't gain low range with training(outside of utilizing the vocal fry register) but you can with age and whiskey. Training will however, improve the quality of your low notes and their resonance/volume.
@johncraig1379 It's not just about singing the lowest...Siepi was one of the best not just because of his low notes but is overall singing/technique/phrasing
Shut up. We're talking about his vocal fach, which happens to be a basso cantante, NOT a basso profondo. As you have just described (though I wish in a more pleasant manner), there is an obvious difference between the types of voices. Cesare is the king of basso cantantes and Wichniakov is the king of basso profondos, for example.
I want the same voice.
MrThrond 2 weeks ago
cio che basso
52214227 3 weeks ago
Question for you pitch-knowers out there: Is this a C2? I tried to catch it but I can't quite pinpoint what it is.
KjeXXXer 1 month ago
This comes from an aria in Les Huguenots.
Cissy97 1 month ago
@anabelachaves I'd love an Agent for my talents! Do you know one?
amofromun 2 months ago
what aria is this? and from which opera?
anabelachaves 2 months ago
I have an octave lower on him. And a few more notes lower than that. I already am and am going to be famous. I played basketball with The Devil in 1997. I am the best lead guitarist ever too. I played improv classical rock. I cant play and never practiced - just record. Youtube "PRONE DRONE" for proof. I bet you money I would be the best singer to use a "Beiber Vocal Correctioner".
amofromun 2 months ago
@amofromun lol dude, do you need an agent?
anabelachaves 2 months ago
How funny is that all these 13 - 17 years old profondi never have recordings of their ultra-awesome voices, haha.
Gandalf930 3 months ago
@Gandalf930 haha, right you are! claiming that they can do it better just make me laugh everytime. let them even STAY in front of such a big audience would make them shit in their pants ;-)
Bomenpulp 3 months ago
Those 7 dislikes are from Justin Bieber, lol.
XenaAmazon 3 months ago
The low note is easier to sing if you get on your knees.
vpo2g2 4 months ago
Siepi had a legit low C after all!
odnoforpb 4 months ago
God how I love hitting these notes. Any basses out there willing to tell me if me being a 16 year old and hitting these with ease is any accomplishment? (Note im only 5'11 180 pounds idk if that has anything to do with it)
TehDarkflash 4 months ago
@TehDarkflash Well i'm 15 and can sing more than an octave lower, so you're not alone.
MunkyRoCks777 4 months ago
@MunkyRoCks777
If you can get an octave lower without ANY vocal fry, apply for the worlds lowest voice.
wowdanalise 4 months ago
@wowdanalise Don't just apply for the worlds lowest voice, just apply for the most bad ass on earth.
BraveMan5555 3 months ago
@BraveMan5555
If you did not catch it, I'm calling you a liar.
wowdanalise 3 months ago
@MunkyRoCks777 an octave lower than this is pretty much impossible without years of training
TehDarkflash 3 months ago
@TehDarkflash Training isn' t essential. You can sing very low notes if you have good control and practice a lot.
MunkyRoCks777 3 months ago
@MunkyRoCks777 Dude It is if you want to sing an octave lower than this. If you can hit this note then you should be famous
TehDarkflash 3 months ago
@MunkyRoCks777 ...so if you have training.
drumbuster93 2 months ago
Hört sich wie ne tiefe orgelpfeiffe an, das tiefe C. Klingt super!
Heldenbariton1 4 months ago
He turns into a human didgeridoo at the end
thesir27 5 months ago
@thesir27 basso profondos get that alot I'm one to not laugh when entering that low resonating range is hard enough to do even if you take out the fact that phonation in that range takes weeks to get used to
randycwyatt 5 months ago
He and Klaus Nomi should have done a duet.
Jcolinsol 6 months ago
it's just a low C.... every basso should hit it. (including myself XD)
jingeshan24 7 months ago
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JJK9394 8 months ago
What note is this? C2? B1?
hotqueekboi 8 months ago
@hotqueekboi c2
dbikeguy 7 months ago
i feel sad with my lowest note being E3 :(
WTFisJamieUp2 8 months ago
lol 7 guys are tenors
oODajmarNOo 8 months ago 42
insane?
robertocozzarin 9 months ago
every one of these vids, theres a justin bieber comment!
Anjelicaluvskevin09 9 months ago
As Momma use to say, "Girls might swoon over the tenors, but they go home with the basses."
mrj60706 9 months ago 3
@mrj60706 And what, baritones are left to stew in their frustration? =D
Taenyr 8 months ago
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I don't hear any insane low notes, its just a mediocre bass voice with weak projection.
notdeadjustlazy 9 months ago
ooo babyy baby babyy uuuuhuuuhhh. =)))) imagine Justin Babyer song over this one xD
Gabripal 9 months ago
Yes, It's a low "C" and it amuses me how some of you responders are so taken with this as being a "low" note. Go to the Gospel Bass section of youtube and you will discover that this low C is not a low note but rather routine and that the "low" notes are generally 4 or 5 steps below that low C. The same holds true with the tenors. Quit being impressed with the high "C" an octave above middle C..and listen to the gospel tenors singing 4 and 5 steps above that. There's a big world out there!
dslowell 10 months ago
@dslowell I don't think a lot of people are taken with just how low the note is — I, for one, am amazed by the quality and pitch put together, and the range of his voice whilst still keeping the same beautiful quality..
Jextxadore 9 months ago
@Jextxadore I agree, the quality of this low C is simply spectacular. It is absolutely insane. As a young bass singer, I would consider killing for a similar note of such high quality. As far as other singers producing notes below this, most of them ruin the rest of their range in doing so. This is simply tremendous.
MrMooseman485 9 months ago
@Jextxadore You are right and I am wrong but for a different reason. You are impressed and you have complimented this singer. Regardless of whether or not the note is low, or of high quality, I should have encouraged you by writing something positive. It's easy to "Dis" something or someone....it is also, very empty. There is way too much negative out there, and I unfortuantely contributed to it ... for which I apologize. This singer is an excellent bass singer. You are correct!
dslowell 9 months ago
@dslowell
Only modal voice counts. Gospel singing sounds utterly hilarious.
Gandalf930 8 months ago
He is awesome, but the Russian Basso Profondos are better.
panda123456789ed 10 months ago 2
@panda123456789ed
But not their high notes
Pondarenkicoff 9 months ago
O.o
kertie159 10 months ago
He looks like Charles Manson xD
zuczyslaw18 10 months ago
Siepi was probably the most versatile singer. If he had been more of a risk taker, he might have been as big as Pavarotti, but he chose to sing each role as written. Cesare was a man who appreciated the integrity of the pieces. You can't find anybody who can sing Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Cole Porter with as much precision as he. Even as short a time he learned English, he sang it almost as if he had been doing so his whole life. He sang not only beautifully, but respectfully.
EyeShotFirst1 1 year ago
Sound like from Meyerbeer's 'Les Huguenots'.
Cissy97 1 year ago
From which opera this came from?
Cissy97 1 year ago
What all you punk ass kids don't realize is that this is a note sung before a huge audience unmike'd. The enormity of the sound that is required is beyond what most can realize. Sure, quite a few can burp up a note like this, and many can make that sound special with a mike. But to actually sing a note like this in an opera is something different entirely...
Mumsilius 1 year ago 28
That's a low C, the "great C" on the bass clef. Wow!
klavierspieler72 1 year ago
I didn't have my keyboard out but that sounded like a D. I am a tenor and can sing the C below that although it sounds like crap and a bit over-fried. Range is irrelevant, what matters are the colour and texture of the voice.
All singers wanting a professional career should have about a 3 octave range. As a tenor, the ability to reach lower notes informs the resonance of my voice in the middle of the tenor staff and the ability to sing high gives squillo to the lower notes.
donaldrose 1 year ago
@donaldrose colour? notes this low all sound like burping:)
MrJudube 1 year ago
@donaldrose It is actually not a D but a C. C2, which is a very low note for an opera (I think the C is not even written in the score ! )
M17006 1 year ago
stop saying this note isnt lowanyone can growl a C, in fact anyone could growl notes off the piano, a bit like the frightening 40decibelC1 of JDsumners(which is as loud as background noise i.e. what you hear as "no sound"). the kind of projection required to fill a concert hall over an orchestra which is what he is doing is a real note is quite unbelievable at this pitch. pop singers would look like kitens compared to siepi or any operatic bass. voices like this are rare for a reason
browny333 1 year ago
@browny333 lol pop singers sound like kittens to operatic baritones as well and even tenors
adamskyb 11 months ago 4
I love Siepi's voice, he is my favorite bass. I am a bass as well, and my low C sounds pretty similar....according to my other half. Its my very lowest note.
Hako2004 1 year ago
I like how he swallows his note at the end haha
Zeanu 1 year ago
Will link up me singing Eh Eukhnem (Volga boatmen's song) when I made it into a movie. I don't think I sound like a guy too much but I do sound androgynous...
Excogitant 1 year ago
I am female :o
I can't hit soprano C my voice actually ends (all sound) way before that- but I can 'fry' that bass C xD
Last note I can sing before it sounds awful is G2/F2. I remind you I am a woman.
It scared the crap out of my bf when I sang G2 tho :D
Like he has the same vocal range that I do :o
All my power is below middle C >.<
I think I am contralto because of gender but I feel more comfortable singing baritone roles because I have major fail with higher notes and make loud low notes
Excogitant 1 year ago
@Excogitant If you can do G2 creditably I would classify you as a basement contralto (same range as Tamara Sinyavskaya and Sonia Prina.) Most such singers cannot, in fact, sing a C6 well. Finding repertory is a challenge with such voices but it is out there if you look (Mahler songs, for example.)
OlDoinyo 9 months ago
not too low... easily fits in my vocal range, but then again, I am a low bass...
zs3019 1 year ago
Holy crap, that's reeally low!
MuziekFan1995 1 year ago
the best basso ever
Vincenzo2010an 1 year ago
he looks like a klingon. a happy klingon.
Linkster500 1 year ago 2
lovely singing, but its not that low...
DevilWilliam8 1 year ago
I someone thinks that this is "insane low" then he/she hasn't researched or even searched YouTube proberly. This is regular bass territory, I can almost sing it and I'm closer to a baritone.
johanneswiberg 1 year ago
@johanneswiberg
It IS a very low note, and the lowest any operatic bass is likely to encounter. Many basses cannot hit the low C...or Db. I can sing a low C, but few bass roles require notes below the D...not interpolated I mean. If you can manage a Db, I would assume you were a bass-baritone, not a baritone. I sang baritone for years, but I was actually a bass with a good top...up to the easily sustained Ab. That caused some confusion, my top notes seemed more like a baritone's.
Hako2004 1 year ago
@Hako2004 very low, yes. Operatic basses don't go very low, compared to basses in other genres. Insane is not a very apt word, that was my point. Yes, I might be considered a bass-baritone, that's probably the best description (E2-F#4) is my comfortable chest range. In choirs, I'm usually 1st bass.
johanneswiberg 1 year ago
Eb2/D2 in the morning, F2/F#2 at night...damn.
NicktheIrishman 1 year ago
@NicktheIrishman I hit a c2 earlier but only cos I'm ill. Normal low point is around a g2!
GhostGuitars 1 year ago
@GhostGuitars Wow! It's so frustrating you can't have those notes along at any time! Wake up with a beautiful D2, finish the day with an F2 if I'm lucky enough not to have it sharp! Dang.
NicktheIrishman 1 year ago
@NicktheIrishman
Struggling with F/E at the moment but I'm feeling healthier now so meh. I'm really working on higher notes and Roxanne range, this was just a random bonus/anomaly!
GhostGuitars 1 year ago
@GhostGuitars I struggle with goddamn E or even F every day after dinner, and it's so frustrating if I consider I've been hitting D2s loads of times. By the way, what would that make me? considering I have trained myself to hit an F4 decently. No way I can go up to F#. All I know is I sing 2nd bass :D
NicktheIrishman 1 year ago
@NicktheIrishman I'm prety much back to health so G is the limit and thats not easy. Ah well, easy come easy go, at least I can get the high ones again!
I have no idea about where the ranges lie but I do know its based around where you are most natural, not the extremes of your range
GhostGuitars 1 year ago
@GhostGuitars Roxanne huh? sing between the eyes and practice intercostal diaphragmatic breathing/appogio for two years, then try that on for size :)
seriously, its the only way to sing.
gdawg116 1 year ago
Damn it!!!! This note broke my headphones!!!! No kidding.
Edu2503 1 year ago 2
Is that the basso profundo C?
witness124 1 year ago
@witness124 Yes it is! good Ear. I performed with Cesare On-Broadway in 1979. I looked up from the pit [I played drums] and wondered where that BIG voice was coming from. Amazing indeed. The show was Carmelina. His voice was better than the show tho. it closed in a week. But the band liked the music!! John-Hans Melcher
johnnyzing 1 year ago
I'm not even a singer and I can do that in my sleep.
voiceaddict 1 year ago
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paulostroff99 1 year ago
@voiceaddict-
You're full of BS. I'm a bass opera singer and can tell you how difficult it is to sing a C2-with a full timbre, tone, and volume-over an orchestra and sing it so everyone in the house can hear it. This may not be the lowest note ever, but it sure as hell is impressive enough to warrant a better response from you.
Jpmadore1 1 year ago
@Jpmadore1 No need to get rude. I agree the performance is quite impressive, however, the description says, "INSANE LOW NOTE!!!! " Insane performance, but my regular speaking voice centers around G1.
voiceaddict 1 year ago
I can hit that note, mind you it's not clear like his. But it's the lowest note I can sing on pitch.
jonezysan 1 year ago
Contra C ! very good too.
papoocanada 1 year ago
@ :15 it reminds me of jd from scrubs, lmao! i can see him doing that too XD
kghsbassboy 1 year ago
This is a C1 !
M17006 1 year ago
im 14 years old and i just BAARLLLEY hit this note :D
i feel special.
MrSandyMan25 1 year ago
Ggggg - C..... and it's over ahahah.
luisiege2 1 year ago
Es un Do
Is a C
Shoriflay1 1 year ago
From what opera is that? Its the low C isn't it??
sarastro1791 1 year ago
@sarastro1791-
It's from "Les Huguenots"-the C actually isn't written in the original sheet music, but it's sort of become a standard for basses to sing it that way.
Jpmadore1 1 year ago
@Jpmadore1 thank you for saying this, i have looked at several different versions of "les huguenots" hoping to find the written low c and i never have
dbikeguy 1 year ago
Sweeeeet.
leadoffeohippus 1 year ago
justin bieber should cover this song.
Mad4Heroes 1 year ago 205
@Mad4Heroes the only thing justin bieber should cover is his hear with a plastic bag
BabyBoiQue 1 year ago 4
@Mad4Heroes right when he passes puberty
perezallonzo 1 year ago
@Mad4Heroes Fuckoff with Justin Bieber. He is just a poor stupid little boy that have luck but not talent. Please have a few of culture.
pollitadeli 1 year ago
@pollitadeli huh? it was just a joke lol. calm down :)
Mad4Heroes 1 year ago
@Mad4Heroes one day justin bieber will have so much semen is his throat that he will not be able to speak anymore. that will be the day that everyone will dream of....
HamPieProductions 9 months ago
@Mad4Heroes LMAO
bigmrclean 8 months ago
@Mad4Heroes :17 is it me or does he look like vince mcmahon
allprog 7 months ago
@allprog Ha ha ha... true!
AfroPoli 7 months ago
@allprog I thought it was him... 100 percent agree
GINOFALUS 7 months ago
@Mad4Heroes aaahahahahaha...good 1...no FANTASTIC 1 !!lol he (or she) is gonna be scared to death if this is played
soumyaaymous 7 months ago
I could do that... it's natural on my voice... but I still hating the singers of Basso Profundo... they really rules
pescast 1 year ago
Rest In Peace
LifeJuice90 1 year ago
how i love those notes... i'm a bass too, it's so great to sing low notes... it's amazing the feeling of your body vibrating with your voice... :P
surreal45 1 year ago 70
@surreal45 I'll never know that low F...sigh. Baritone.
witness124 1 year ago
@surreal45
I'm not an opera singer but i feel the same in my body when
i'm listening to these splendide voices...
rmarylou19 1 year ago
@surreal45 me too.i'm a bass aswell
fuitbag 1 year ago
thats a c, just like many many people can hit, even me
mexfive 1 year ago
@mexfive-
I can sing a great C2 as well, but I can tell you how difficult it is to sing such a low note and project it clearly into the audience while still having a nice tone to it. THAT is what many, many people CAN'T do.
Jpmadore1 1 year ago
RIP great bass prince Siepi, even if you were a bit monotone.
pavoman23 1 year ago
@pavoman23 Lol, yes monotone! That's the word!
starbreez3 1 year ago
Ahhhhhh the true BASS! The Big Boys Club! ...membership has it's privileges!!!
LOL!
TheMannyStyles 1 year ago 2
Rest in peace
Tetsuo315 1 year ago 2
@Tetsuo315 He's not dead?!!! Is he?
mckavitt 1 year ago
@mckavitt Yeah he died on July 5, 2010
Tetsuo315 1 year ago
@Tetsuo315 How saddening. Damn.
mckavitt 1 year ago
hey this video got longer.. in the past couple days..
dbikeguy 1 year ago
Shere Khan sings that exact note!
nathanjhunt 1 year ago
That low note sounds like a C2. I can pretty much guarrantee that most guys ain't gonna be hitting that note---and especially with the power and resonance of Siepi. Lots of guys can croak a C2--maybe.
djlucy1 1 year ago
@djlucy1 And what about his high note piannissimos? He was probably the greatest Don Giovanni of his day. Who equalled him, much less surpassed him? Fortunately, i saw him in one of his last Met performances as the Don. After it, i went to see him backstage and he was sitting round-shouldered and smoking! He's looked like a god onstage. Now that's talent.
mckavitt 1 year ago
y'know i listen to this and think wow thats low. but then i sing along with it, and instead of dropping to the c at the end i go up to the octave and sing the c below middle c, and that brings into contrast how low and difficult it really is to project a low c as well as siepi does here.
dbikeguy 1 year ago
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DanyNicola 1 year ago
@DanyNicola baritone
dbikeguy 1 year ago
@dbikeguy I think so too...but according to most I should be a bass-baritone...according to everyone including myself I'm very difficult to classify
DanyNicola 1 year ago
@DanyNicola a bass baritone should be able to project an f well. with strength resonance and tone. if you can hardly hit it after half a day then you are a baritone, and a high one at that.
dbikeguy 1 year ago
@dbikeguy I just got classified precisely. With an open throat and correct posture I shot a perfect E2. Bass.
DanyNicola 1 year ago
@DanyNicola good haha. be happy lol.
dbikeguy 1 year ago
@DanyNicola that means you are a bass in the morning and a bari beginning at noon.
djlucy1 1 year ago
ville valo can do just about the same
gigity01 1 year ago
@gigity01 Hahahahah XD ...not
vesnatesna 1 year ago
you forget that without the middle there is no connection between high and low notes - thus creating trash... try listening to a choir without "those typical middle voicers"...
quite scary :D:D:D
HIvan1986 1 year ago
C2, right?
cryozo 1 year ago
daayum! lol
MellyLOVEMJ58 1 year ago
ive hit the g below the low c, and im a sophomore in high school.
granted, it sounds like shit hahahaha.
like a long burp.
johnrs651 1 year ago
@johnrs651 im 13 and i can hit low C, hope i sing like Vichniakov someday...
Gidenkidenk 1 year ago
@Gidenkidenk My goodness! I'm 14 and I can barely get an Eflat2, once I touched a C#2. How high can you sing, in chest and also head.
HildaMcFumble 1 year ago
You can add to the description that this incredibly low note is the low C.
Pudersepp 1 year ago
superbe cesare siepi en 108 de carrière, je n'ai jamais entendu cela!!!!
clown84700 1 year ago
Les Heugenots! I also have a recording of him interpolating a low C LIVE in Mefistofele.
bassoforhire 1 year ago
Not bad for a basso cantate.
A wonderful singer...and the best Don Giovanni by far.
recessionlover 2 years ago
not bad... cesare siepi is definitely one of the best basses ive ever heard, you? regardless of whether or not he was the lowest, which he of course wasnt, he has one of the fullest and richest tones and timbre i have ever heard. im sure his range extended a certain ways below this c if he could hit it over an orchestra as well.
dbikeguy 1 year ago
@dbikeguy. I agree with everything you say about Siepi's voice. I am a bass myself, and I envy him. I think Robert Lloyd summed it up when he said: "Never has a bass come closer to rivalling a tenor." I agree that singing such low notes would be swamped by the orchestra. But Siepi's forte is further up the register. Sorry to disagree with Bing Crosby, but THAT'S where the money is.
recessionlover 1 year ago
what did robert lloyd mean by that exactly haha
dbikeguy 1 year ago
@dbikeguy Two things. First Lloyd's programme was called "The Six Foot Cinderella" which was complaining that the basses were overlooked, while audiences came to see the tenor. This is not the case with Siepi. Secondly, Siepi's voice is remarkably free of pondorosity, and thus rivals a tenor's
recessionlover 1 year ago
ah i see, absolutely true to.
dbikeguy 1 year ago
is there any way i can see that documentary?
dbikeguy 1 year ago
@dbikeguy Don't know. All I can tell you is that it was broadcast in the UK around 1986 on BBC2. Lloyd gave his big four basses of all time: Siepi, Pinza, Shalyapin, Robeson. I wouldn't disagree with that, although I would add Pol Plancon. I thought it was quite a good programme about the bass voice. Robert Lloyd, in case you didn't know, is no mean basso himself.
recessionlover 1 year ago
yeah i knew he was a bass haha. i wish i could see that.. but it was probably never offered for purchase and there is probably nothing for it on the internet
dbikeguy 1 year ago
Show me some famous opera basses who can sing lower, there aren´t any and when they can do so their high notes aren´t in the right place...the most Osmin singers have very heavy voices but nearly no one can hit the low D well enough...sure, if you HAVE the time to can prepare your body for those low notes as in this example here. Ciepi has this low C and also a very good high F, has has an ultimate ambitus!
WhiteProfondo 1 year ago
@WhiteProfondo-
Henri Medus was able to go a little lower than Siepi and he could sing up to an F4, but A. Medus is unfortunately little-known today, and B. Medus was a profondo, not a cantabile like Siepi. I disagree with your statement that there are no operatic basses lower than Siepi, but I do agree that Siepi has an ultimate ambitus.
Jpmadore1 1 year ago
@Jpmadore1 Hi, JP. I cannot find the damn thing i wrote about Siepi's having been a cyclist. You are probably right that i mixed him up with Pinza, but that's as far as the confusion goes. Also, did you see the legs on Siepi??? Gorgeous. Cyclist legs. Oh well, do you know if he ever studied to do or did anything else before becoming the DON GIO of the 20th century? Thanks for bringing me down to earth:)
mckavitt 1 year ago
@mckavitt-
I know that he never intended to become a singer, since he had intentions of becoming a teacher instead. It was only until he won at some singing contest that he changed his career path.
Jpmadore1 1 year ago
@Jpmadore1 Yeah, i but i recently read that he was working in a bank when he decided to study singing--in one of his obits:(
I DID apparently get him mixed up with Pinza, but i would never get his DON mixed up with Pinza's:)
mckavitt 1 year ago
@WhiteProfondo Kurt Moll has C2-F#4: C2 in Der Rosenkavalier, F#4 in Ode an die Freude [Ode to Joy].
Sorry to ruin your grand party, but Siepi's low C in this video is sharp (towards the end, at least).
OliverKahnNr1 1 year ago
@OliverKahnNr1
Moll is totally overrated, his voice focus is somewhere in the neck with a froggy-sounding, bad technical educated focus, it simply sounds ugly.
Siepi sounds like a REAL bass, besides, he has an A#4 (Don Giovanni) -.- i don´t think, that Moll had the abilities to sing Don Giovanni-.- but Siepi as a Baron Ochs or Osmin, why not? He has everything a world-class bass has to; he sings WITH technique, especially low notes HAVE TO BE sharp, otherwise u dont hear them in the audience
WhiteProfondo 1 year ago
@WhiteProfondo 6 months ago you declared that Siepi wasn't a real bass on the Le Veau D'or video. You've got no credibility when it comes to judging vocal technique, considering in a matter of months you switched from declaring Cesare Siepi not a real bass to just as emphatically declaring he is. While I'm glad you've come to the obvious (Siepi is a real bass! News flash!), you clearly don't know what you're talking about when it comes to singing. Moll is certainly a real bass.
BorisGodunov 1 year ago
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WhiteProfondo 1 year ago
C2...
scottjop656 2 years ago
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tweekin001 2 years ago
my apologies C1
scottjop656 2 years ago
i'ts not that low compared to some other i've heard but it's still amazing
markdevisser0611 2 years ago
it's not that low, but it's an opera low C... that's just without mic in a big hall... ask the country basses to do that and you'll see... and hear nothing... ;)
guimaul69 2 years ago 3
If you're fach is a bass can you sing...say below G below low C or does it take a while to train? Cause I was told since my break is at a middle C# I'm probably a bass, but I can sing low only sometimes to a F or E but not very good. I just started singing at 24 and havent got into my headvoice yet....
adamskyb 2 years ago
@adamskyb You sound like a baritone to me. To my knowledge a typical bass can hit that E no problem. You usually don't gain low range with training(outside of utilizing the vocal fry register) but you can with age and whiskey. Training will however, improve the quality of your low notes and their resonance/volume.
pstlwhppd 2 years ago
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crow66693 2 years ago
That is godly singing. If I ever write something for soloists, I WANT THAT VOICE AND ONLY THAT (KIND OF) VOICE! Enough said.
OliverKahnNr1 2 years ago
He did that as if it were no problem. I want a voice like that.
LifeJuice90 2 years ago
Oh god!
cryozo 2 years ago 2
nice C
chipojo2008 2 years ago
Quite the opposite, idiot! "...the best bass ever", my ass! I've heard better AND lower! Look up "basso profondo".
johncraig1379 2 years ago
@johncraig1379 It's not just about singing the lowest...Siepi was one of the best not just because of his low notes but is overall singing/technique/phrasing
adamskyb 2 years ago 4
@johncraig1379:
Shut up. We're talking about his vocal fach, which happens to be a basso cantante, NOT a basso profondo. As you have just described (though I wish in a more pleasant manner), there is an obvious difference between the types of voices. Cesare is the king of basso cantantes and Wichniakov is the king of basso profondos, for example.
Jpmadore1 2 years ago 2
Sorry. You obviously know your stuff better than I thought. I spoke too quickly. I apologize.
johncraig1379 2 years ago 5
Just a guess at the note, i'm going to guess a b flat. I can hit a C, but i'm just humming while laying down so i'm not exactly sure how close I am
Nd2pwn 2 years ago