Ludovic spiess biography of barack obama

LUDOVIC SPIESS  BY COSTIN POPA
Curtea Veche Publishing,  Bucarest
www.curteaveche.ro
pp 344

(photo courtesy Charles Mintzer collection)

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 because of damaged vocal cords; he later became minister of culture in the post-Communist government in the early 1990s and was director of the Romanian Opera from 2001 until 2005.
Spiess made his stage debut as the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto at the Romanian city of Galati in 1962, and won singing competitions in Toulouse, Rio de Janeiro and s’Hertogenbosh and made his first appearance as Cavaradossi in Tosca at the Bucharest Opera two years later.

He also sang operetta for a couple of seasons. For Electrecord he even recorded the hits of Francis Lopez the man who was to Luis Mariano what Léhar was to Tauber. Spiess was discovered by Ioan Holender and brought to the West, especially Germany.