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.
I swear some of you are just complete idiots! He was just goofing around...you obviously don't know the guy. He didn't post it here so that you can tell him he's not a real bass
(duh!)or that he doesn't know anything about vocal technique. Post some videos where you're singing then we'll talk.
Beautiful job, my friend. Only a beautiful and important voice can do impression of other beautiful and important voices. You're a smart singer. Perhaps there is some way to import some of this Siepi approach into your legitimate singing? Of course only you know if this is possible, since you're the only one who feels the sensations of your throat. You're a smart enough guy to figure it out. Good luck to you and much success. - James Caputo
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 Youtube are such crap it's hard to be certain of course.
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.
You are an idiot.You quite clearly do not know anything about vocal technique if you are arrogant enough to put this impersination down to a lowered lanynx.There is far to much resonance at the bottom for this voice to be described as an over darkened baritone or tenor.Define tongue?Heard of the Passagio?Who are you to describe seipi as not perfect anyway?Some failed singer with nothing better to do? Get your facts right and your ear trained next time you mouth off your oh so important opinion.
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.
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.
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!!
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!
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.
Operafilli 10 months ago
That was pretty good! Nicely done, Michael!
EmilyGreene1984 1 year ago
Leonard Warren at 1:27
dandefikon 1 year ago
Magnifique voix de Basse!!! VRAIMENT magnifique!!!
sebastien1chartry 2 years ago
Wonderful singing!
vonmeppen 2 years ago
is this the same guy who was singing the tenor stuff
aspsingr 4 years ago
I swear some of you are just complete idiots! He was just goofing around...you obviously don't know the guy. He didn't post it here so that you can tell him he's not a real bass
(duh!)or that he doesn't know anything about vocal technique. Post some videos where you're singing then we'll talk.
Way to go SHHHPYKEL!
Reynhardt
Pidivox 4 years ago 5
In the style of Leonard Warren I think.
Good work gentleman.
ellocopeluquin 4 years ago
Of course I loved this one. A Caruso favorite.
KGoss
KGoss227 4 years ago
Beautiful job, my friend. Only a beautiful and important voice can do impression of other beautiful and important voices. You're a smart singer. Perhaps there is some way to import some of this Siepi approach into your legitimate singing? Of course only you know if this is possible, since you're the only one who feels the sensations of your throat. You're a smart enough guy to figure it out. Good luck to you and much success. - James Caputo
vinoverita 4 years ago
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 Youtube are such crap it's hard to be certain of course.
wotan3000 4 years ago
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.
wotan3000 4 years ago
oh jeezus. shut up! stop trying to be so pretentious and conceited.
andru0617 4 years ago
You are an idiot.You quite clearly do not know anything about vocal technique if you are arrogant enough to put this impersination down to a lowered lanynx.There is far to much resonance at the bottom for this voice to be described as an over darkened baritone or tenor.Define tongue?Heard of the Passagio?Who are you to describe seipi as not perfect anyway?Some failed singer with nothing better to do? Get your facts right and your ear trained next time you mouth off your oh so important opinion.
nickcowie 4 years ago
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.
wotan3000 4 years ago
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.
aguacun 4 years ago
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.
aguacun 4 years ago
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!!
sebussy 4 years ago
I thought it was very good. But you should just sing
as you.
frecklenee 4 years ago
holy crap! hooray for depressed larnyx imitations... you could almost here the tenor creep in but you stuck with it bravo!
brendanemig 4 years ago
But you could have a career just singing as yourself. Glorious voice!
nbatterby 4 years ago
Bravo Mike!
duanekeys 4 years ago
can you do one with cathedral tone?
radiofriendly 4 years ago
You could have a carreer with your Cesare Siepi impressions if you sang like that all the time.
juadan 4 years ago
cosi si canta! w i baritenori
rodolfete111 5 years ago
Yo de Mon
terryspyres 5 years ago
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!
realbasso 5 years ago
This guy just has great technique... I'm a fan by the way.
cbrown6660 4 years ago