For the general public, the deceased Daniel Lévi will forever remain the unforgettable interpreter of Moïse in the cult musical “The Ten Commandments”. Yes, but now, according to one of his colleagues, the role was not necessarily intended for him…
“It will be ours tonight. It’s up to us to want it. Make only the love that we have shared. Makes us want to love…” these words taken from the hit of the musical The ten Commandmentsmillions of French people know them by heart and inevitably associate them with the late singer Daniel Lévi, died on August 6, 2022 at only 60 years old following cancer. But they could have ended up in the mouth of another artist…
The Ten Commandments: Cast Reveal
It’s in the pages of the magazine TV 7 Days that we discover this rather unknown information. On the occasion of an interview with the famous tenor Roberto Alagna – in full promotion for the musical al Capone, which starts on January 28 at the Folies Bergère in Paris – he released this surprising confidence. Asked what motivated him to join a musical comedy troupe, he who performs in opera houses around the world, he said: “I always dreamed of it. More than twenty years ago, Pascal Obispo asked me to play Moses in The Ten Commandments. I had refused because of my commitments. At 59, my career as a tenor being done, I can afford this parenthesis.”
Roberto Alagna added in his interview that he himself was recruited for al Capone by Jean-Félix Lalanne, author and composer of the show in which he will give the reply to Anggun. The tenor, for his part, recruited Bruno Pelletier, the essential voice of Notre Dame of Paris.
Daniel Lévi alias Moïse in The Ten Commandments: the artist’s requirement revealed by Pascal Obispo
On the death of Daniel Lévi – who left behind his widow Sandrine and four children – Pascal Obispo confided in the newspaper The Parisian.
And the one who composed the music for the cult show of the 2000s to relate this anecdote: “During the casting of the Ten Commandments, Albert Cohen, the show’s co-producer, told me about it. I had chosen a difficult song, L’Hymne à l’amour, for the candidates. When we heard it, we thought: ‘What a voice!’ Then we saw him again, and there it was obvious. You just had to accept that he didn’t sing on Fridays because of Shabbat. I remember having sometimes waited for him on Saturday evening in front of the rooms where the sun had to go down for him to arrive!”
