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• 29 Ott 2014

Léopold Simoneau – “La fleur que tu m’avais jetée” Aria of Don José – “Carmen” – Georges Bizet (1838 – 1875).

Album Urania “Carmen” – ℗1959.
Cast: Consuelo Rubio Leopold Simoneau Pierrette Alaire Heinz Rehfuss Orchestra and Chorus of Les Concerts de Paris
M.° Pierre-Michel le Conte Conductor.

Superb! His “Flower Song” is superb, some strain apart, and he obeys all the instructions in the score. Simoneau was the most poetic Don José of all.
Léopold Simoneau (May 3, 1916 – August 24, 2006) was a French-Canadian lyric tenor, one of the outstanding Mozarteans of his time.
In the 1950s he made several famous recordings, including George Bizet’s “Les pêcheurs de perles” and “Carmen”.
Simoneau made his debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 1954, he sang there until 1961, notably in “La traviata” opposite Maria Callas.
Simoneau’s final appearance was in Handel’s Messiah in Montréal on November 24, 1970.