Giovin Fiamma Levy Sekgapane

• Gioachino Rossini (1792 - 1868):
• 1 Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Cessa di piú resistere 07:12
• 2 L'italiana in Algeri: Languir per una bella 06:50
• 3 La Cenerentola: Si, ritrovarla io giuro 06:13
• 4 Semiramide: Ah dov'è, dov'è il cimento 07:39
• 5 Otello: Che ascolto... Ah, come mai non senti 06:39
• 6 La donna del lago: Oh fiamma soave 07:59
• 7 Zelmira: Terra amica 07:51
• 8 Il turco in Italia: Intesi ah! tutto intesi... Tu seconda il mio disegno 05:38
• 9 Elisabetta regina d'Inghilterra: Deh! Troncate i ceppi suoi... Vendicar sapró l'offesa 07:52
• Total Runtime 01:03:53

Info for Giovin Fiamma

The new album, entitled “Giovin Fiamma,” will represent the second album for the start-up company and will showcase the tenor in arias by Rossini. The recording will be dedicated to arias from “Il Barbiere di Siviglia,” “Zelmira,” “Otello,” “La Donna del Lago,” “La Cenerentola,” “L’Italiana in Algeri,” and “Semiramide” among others.

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 Münchner 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 Plácido Domingo’s Operalia, Levy Sekgapane has also taken the top prizes in the Belvedere Singing Competition and the Monserrat Caballé 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, before returning once again to Rossini roles at the Teatro Massimo Palermo and the Wexford Festival Opera.

“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)

Levy Sekgapane, tenor

Levy Sekgapane
The young tenor Levy Sekgapane – winner of the 1st prize of Plácido Domingo’s OPERALIA 2017 – was born in Kroonstad in South Africa. From early childhood, he sang in different choirs until he began his musical education at Tirisano School Eisteddfod. Later on, he became a member of the Fidentia South African Youth Choir and received a scholarship to learn at Stellenberg High School in Cape Town. Afterward, Levy studied at the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town, under Kamal Khan and Hanna van Niekerk. Besides Operalia, Levy won several prizes, amongst them, the first prize at the Belvedere singing competition, and the first prize at the Montserrat Caballé competition in Spain. Shorty after, Levy became a member of the Young Ensemble in Semperoper Dresden. He debuted as Conte d’Almaviva/BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA at Deutsche Oper Berlin and at Aalto Theater Essen. He performs at major opera houses such as Hamburg State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Copenhagen Opera, Liceu Barcelona, Opéra National de Paris, Opéra National de Bordeaux, Glyndebourne Festival, Opera di Palermo, State Theater Wiesbaden, Oslo Opera, and Latvian National Opera Riga.

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