Ah! quel giorno ognor rammento

Please visit Elena Cernei : Semiramide-Ah, quel giorno ognor rammento (G.Rossini)
The Romanian Radiotelevision Studio Orchestra, conductor Ludovic Bacs
The text used on the video:
The greatest Romanian mezzo-sopranos of the 20th century Elena Cernei. She was born on 1 march 1924 in Bairamcea near Cetatea Alba. Despite of communism regime, she made an international career. Title roles in G.Bizet's Carmen and C.Saint Saens's - Samson et Dalila made her known all around the world. She was the last mezzo-soprano act as Amneris at the Old Metropolitan in the last performances of "Aida" before closing down and the first as Amneris in the inaugural performance at the New Metropolitan. Her partners where the greatest actors of the Metropolitan Opera like : Franco Corelli,Leontyne Price,Birgit Nilsson,Richard Tucker,Robert Merrill,Jon Vickers and etc. Her last aparence at Met on 2.10.1968 was the famous performance of F.Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur with the Great Renata Tebaldi and Plácido Domingo (who replaced Franco Corelli because of illness).

piu grande Carmen della mia carriera
Giuseppe di Stefano
una ideale interprete di Amneris per la dinamica vocale e interpretativa di grande classe
Franco Corelli
una magnifica voce dallunico fascino
Mario del Monaco
mezzosoprano dalla voce ed interpretazione singolari
Plácido Domingo

After retire Cernei settled in Rome with her husband, the physician and musicologist Dr. Stephan Poen and in her later years taught voice and served on the juries of several singing competitions in Italy and Romania