Max Emanuel Cencic - Rossini Arias video free download

Derek Malcolm Bewick Bryon

Absolutamente fantástico!

Oudtshoornify

Effortless and utterly beautiful. When he was a child I watched and listened to him with the Wiener Sangknaben, and was very impressed; now, even more so. Thank you for sharing this wonderful music and his wonderful talent.

altus1959

This is outstandingly good singing.

M. Y. Aw

A countertenor's voice, as compared to a falsettist, is NOT small.

William Caron

Amazing that a male can do these runs.

2010wieliczka

@MGHall07 I do not aree with you, it is not like natural soprano. Natural soprano is something like a cotton, falsetto is something like nylon. Voice of Cencic and Jaroussky is like coolmax- not natural but excellent, very nice for body.

Ray Martinez

@crazygirl0071 NO he is NOT by any means he jokes around with it he's my friend, and so does male [modal register] soprano Michael Maniaci. he is simply an INCREDIBLY TALENTED and exquisitelty trained COUNTER-TENOR or tenor singing in falsetto which transposes the voice about an octave up in tessitura placement, making his voice equivalent to that of MEZZO-SOPRANO fach.

Ray Martinez

@hibyeeee2 Let me try to clarify your statements, because you are apparently confused in some fundamental facts. First of all, a man such as RADU MARIAN or MICHAEL MANIACI can be termed male MODAL sopranos because their physiology is producing the voice in MODAL register, NOT falsetto, Falsetto is a TONE of HEAD VOICE and is a function of MODAL register, therefore it is allowed in operatic repotoire if disciplined accordingly.

hibyeeee2

@MGHall07 A man can also be a male Soprano if he uses his head voice. It actually preferred to used head voice. David Daniels, and Andreas Scholl are countertenors that use head voice. I think Max Emanuel Cencic might use head voice too. Male Sopranos use head voice to. Head voice gives a stronger sound then falsetto.

UlfenDaddy

@kh Oh for the most part I agree; the composer's intention was a clear, high female coloratura voice. The intrigue is a talent such as Cencic: how should he, with his experience (Weiner SngK, etc) proceed? That high male voices for opera will never be typical is obvious. This repertoire with him is sui generis, and while it's odd, the question is, Was is a pleasant musical experience? With his talent and personal joy of singing, I enjoyed it thoroughly. I suspect Rossini would've also...

Constanza Gimenez

@UlfenDaddy Maybe you are right about the tonality, but I still think that if a composer think in a specific kind of voice when he designe the arias (in this case, a woman's voice), that kind of voice should sing the part, at least that is the ideal for me. But I agree with you, at the end, is a matter of taste.

UlfenDaddy

The score is written in E-flat, he sings in E-flat. Compare to the other Rossini aria (w/ Spinosi,) which is in E-natural, same opera. Slides right on up to G-sharp with no trouble at all and it's not a falsettist-style. Prefering Horne or Bartoli is simply taste, neither right nor wrong; he does a FANTASTIC job of it. I do however get really tired of the accusation that singers ajust tonality for a vocal advantage; an absurd charge and untrue here as in other places it's been said in youtube.

Constanza Gimenez

This is very artificial to me. The aria is evidently changed in it's tonality, much lower than the original. I think it wasn't Rossini's desire; also he was thinking clearly in a woman when he wrote this repertoire. I prefer Horne and Bartoli!

yarmo28

super wonderful voice - I hope he will one day travel on tour to the USA.

Nuova Luce

Cencic sounds just great now! What is your concern then? Why don't you just relax and listen to his wonderful singing instead of speculating what he might have done while he didn't sing?! Do you like this aria or not in his rendition? I guess not if you think only about this...

vctvi

Not to my taste; not very good

Acacia Bloom

Rossini actually wrote this Role of "Arsace" in Semiramide for Rosa Mariani. As the name Rosa suggests she was a female (contralto). So from the beginning a woman was intended to play a male role. Neither a castrato, nor a counter tenor and definitely not a transvestite. Ok Rosa was probably in that moment a cross-dresser. It does not really matter if a male plays a male role and sings with a female voice, or a female plays a male role and sings with a female voice. Its all a shambles anyway.

Nuova Luce

His singing is just awesome!

TheEvaCarlson

Je découvre ce grand chanteur. Quelle voix ! Et quel magnétisme...

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