Giovin Fiamma

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[Cessa di più resistere] sung so spectacularly that it is difficult for me to describe the singer’s talent without resorting to hyperbole. By the time we get to the first brilliant high D in... — Fanfare, Nov/Dec 2021 More…

Release Date: 16th Aug 2019
Catalogue No: PRIMA002
Label: Prima Classic
Length: 63 minutes

Opus Klassik Awards

2020

Nominee - Male Singer of the Year

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Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Cessa di piú resistere

Work length7:12

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Levy Sekgapane
Munich Radio Orchestra
Giacomo Sagripanti

Rossini: Languir per una bella (from L'Italiana in Algeri)

Work length6:50

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Levy Sekgapane
Munich Radio Orchestra
Giacomo Sagripanti

Rossini: La Cenerentola: Si, ritrovarla io giuro

Work length6:13

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Levy Sekgapane
Munich Radio Orchestra
Giacomo Sagripanti

Rossini: Semiramide: Ah dov'è, dov'è il cimento

Work length7:39

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Levy Sekgapane
Munich Radio Orchestra
Giacomo Sagripanti

Rossini: Otello: Che ascolto... Ah, come mai non senti

Work length6:39

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Levy Sekgapane
Munich Radio Orchestra
Giacomo Sagripanti

Rossini: La donna del lago: Oh fiamma soave

Work length7:59

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Levy Sekgapane
Munich Radio Orchestra
Giacomo Sagripanti

Rossini: Zelmira: Terra amica

Work length7:51

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Levy Sekgapane
Munich Radio Orchestra
Giacomo Sagripanti

Rossini: Il turco in Italia: Intesi ah! tutto intesi... Tu seconda il mio disegno

Work length5:38

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Levy Sekgapane
Munich Radio Orchestra
Giacomo Sagripanti

Rossini: Elisabetta regina d'Inghilterra: Deh! Troncate i ceppi suoi... Vendicar sapró l'offesa

Work length7:52

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Levy Sekgapane
Munich Radio Orchestra
Giacomo Sagripanti

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Operalia’s First Prize winner in 2017, the young South African tenor Levy Sekgapane releases his debut album, ‘Giovin Fiamma’, featuring Rossini arias, on Prima Classics. He is accompanied by the Munchner Rundfunkorchester conducted by Giacomo Sagripanti (Young Conductor winner in the 2016 International Opera Awards).

Very much a rising star internationally and wonderfully suited to the Rossinian style, Levy Sekgapane brings freshness, clarity and thrilling and seductive vocal qualities to this Prima Classic recording. It combines arias from nine different Rossini operas, Il barbiere di Siviglia, L’italiana in Algeri, La Cenerentola, Semiramide, Otello, La donna del lago, Zelmira, Il Turco in Italia and Elisabetta regina d’Inghilterra. The Italian composer wrote these for three particular and very different singers: Giovanni Davide, Manuel Garcia, and Andrea Nozzari.

Besides winning Placido Domingo’s Operalia, Levy Sekgapane has also taken the top prizes in the Belvedere Singing Competition and the Monserrat Caballe International Competition amongst others.

Following his appearances as Count Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the 2019 Glyndebourne Festival, he will make his Salzburg Festival debut in Mozart’s Idomeneo, a Peter Sellars’ production conducted by Teodor Currentzis, in late July/August before returning once again to the Rossini role at the Teatro Massimo Palermo the following month. In October/November, he takes to the Wexford Festival Opera stage in the little-known Rossini opera, Adina.

”Levy Sekgapane is a tenor with a very special, bright, youthful timbre. This young tenor can really seduce you with his voice.“ - Klassik begeistert - Silverstergala- Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

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Nov/Dec 2021

[Cessa di più resistere] sung so spectacularly that it is difficult for me to describe the singer’s talent without resorting to hyperbole. By the time we get to the first brilliant high D in the aria from Zelmira, I was not even surprised at how solidly Sekgapane hits it or the other high Ds to follow. There seems to be no technical demand expected by Rossini that intimidates him at all.

Awards Issue 2019

He has a light, appealing tone and top notes that often hit the mark with real zing…A sequence of nine high-octane, high-wire Rossini arias isn’t necessarily recommended listening in one gulp, whoever the tenor…But Sekgapane has put together an interesting programme…With the right training, he could well grow into a Rossini tenor of some stature.

March 2020

Sekgapane has a voice that is remarkably even from the lower register to the highest notes, and his singing has chutzpah without resorting to trickery: he does not hide anything and gives it his all. That is more than enough to make this a valuable recording for anybody interested in how a young voice develops, rising to the challenge of an ambitious and arduous repertoire.

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