Ludovic spiess biography

Ludovic Spiess (– 28 February 2006) was a Romanian spinto tenor.
Ludovic Spiess, born 13th May 1938, died January 28 2006, Romanian Tenor And finally, three Hungarian tenors.
Ludovic Spiess enjoyed an impressive career as a tenor with a dramatic voice and appreciable artistry for 14 years before being forced to give up.

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Ludovic Spiess (May 13, 1938 - January 29, 2006) was born in Cluj, in a family of humble people without musical education. Spiess young later discovered great music in 18 years, in a concert hall in Brasov.

Start studies in Cluj, with Basil and John Corpaci Mărgineanu, then go to Bucharest, where he continued studies with Professor George Pascu. Married very early, with pianist Gerda Zach. After a brief stint in the Army Ensemble and Musical Theatre debut in Brasov, in the autumn of 1962 became a soloist of the Operetta Theatre in Bucharest (1962-1964), where Let me sing and play Lysistrata by Gherase Dendrino, Gypsy Baron by Johann Strauss and Lehar Land of Smiles. Spiess and continued her studies in Bucharest with the famous baritone Peter Stefanescu Goangă in 1964 reaching the Romanian Opera singer (1964-1988).

Next to him during the great international success: Toulouse Grand Prix (1964), Grand Prix and two interpretation prizes at Rio de Janeiro (1965), First Prize at s'Hertogenbosch (1966) and a scholarship to Milan for a year. Meanwhile the Romanian Opera debut in Ri

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Spiess, Ludovic

Spiess, Ludovic, Romanian tenor; b. Cluj, May 13, 1938. He studied in Braçov, Bucharest, and with Antonio Narducci in Milan (1965–66). In 1962 he made his operatic debut as the Duke of Mantua in Galani. After singing at the Bucharest Operetta Theater (1962–64), he made his first appearance at the Bucharest Opera as Cavaradossi in 1964, where he subsequently sang regularly. In 1967 he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival as Dmitri in Boris Godunov, In 1968 he made his first appearances in Zürich as Radamès and at the Vienna State Opera as Dalibor. He sang Calaf at the Verona Arena in 1969. On June 3, 1971, he made his Metropolitan Opera debut in N.Y. as Manrico. He sang Radamès at his Covent Garden debut in London in 1973. He also appeared with many other opera houses in Europe and North and South America. Among his other roles were Florestan, Lohengrin, Otello, Don José, and Rodolfo.

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire

Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians

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Ludovic Spiess

Romanian singer (1939 - 2006)

Ludovic Spiess (13 May 1939 – 28 February 2006) was a Romanian spinto tenor.

Spiess was born in Cluj in 1938. After leaving school early and working at a factory in Brasov he studied at the Music Academy in Bucharest. He made his debut as the Duke of Mantua in Verdi's Rigoletto at Galați in 1962.^[1] A win at a competition in Toulouse and a Cavaradossi in Bucharest eventually led to his being discovered in 1967 by Herbert von Karajan, who recruited him for the role of Dmitri in the Salzburg Festival's production of Boris Godunov.^[2] Spiess made his American debut in 1968 as Calaf in Turandot. In the 70s he increasingly focused on Verdi roles.^[1]

After an international career spanning some fourteen years, Spiess was forced to abandon singing after discovering that irreparable damage had been done to his vocal chords. He went on to serve as the Romanian minister of culture in the Iliescu government during the 1990s, and later assumed the directorship of the Romanian National Opera, Bucharest from 2001