Kiri Te Kanawa - 'A Portrait' Interview/Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Dame Kiri Te Kanawa talks to Melvyn Bragg about her life and career as a camera crew travelled with her to capture an exciting year in her life. She is seen visiting and performing a concert in her native New Zealand, preparing Strauss Capriccio at The San Francisco Opera and the Royal Opera House, and recording with Sir Georg Solti.. Stars paying tribute to her include Solti, Dame Joan Sutherland, Richard Bonynge and Jeffrey Tate. 1991
I saw her San Francisco Opera debut as the Countess about a year after her Covent Garden debut. I had grown up as a child listening to a recording of Sena Jurinac in the role--which she sang like no other. This spoiled me: For years I was disappointed by the Countess in many otherwise wonderful productions. Then came San Francisco, c.1971. The curtain rose for Act II. There stood this beautiful woman. She opened her mouth, and from the first note of Porgi amor I was in heaven. This voice, like heavy cream, with perfect phrasing . . . one of the great experiences of my life.
Hi from Finland. Never cared for the opera, didn't understand the words or the 'squeeling'. But, once I heard her singing you'll never walk alone. I was like hello!! Never seen her live, but watched Manon Lescaut and The Sorceress from tv. She really is versatile with her range, voice and talent. I have few of her cd's, Kiri sings Porter, Legrand, broadway, two x-mas' and Jazz. Luckily the RUclips have lots of her music. Opera is no more squeeling to me. It's a whole new world.
Kiri as the 'Countess' in Strauss' 'Capriccio' at the MET was unforgettable. Her lush wonderful voice added magic to every role she undertook, especially Strauss and Mozart. Love Kiri!
In any discussion of the best of all time, her name must come up. For sheer beauty of tone, she can't be beat.
Glorious voice.... Her Strauss and Mozart, unparalleled brilliance
Dame Kiri - what a legend!!! So down to earth and that heavenly lyric soprano voice!! Great documentary 💜
i am speechless. breathless.
and she is peerless
I attended her concert in Hong Kong. I was on the edge of my seat, mesmerized.
I love this documentary had it on video when I was young then had it converted to dvd by far one of the most open interviews from Dame Kiri ....love it... love her ..
Kiri sets the benchmark.
With her great beauty and prodigious talent as an actress it's clear that she would have been a great stage and screen legend without ever singing a note. "Her flute legato", it leaves me holding my breath and melting.
I have the LP issue of her recording of Figaro with Popp, Ramey, Allen and Von Stade with the LPO, conducted by Sir Georg Solti. Picked it up for $5 at a second hand record store, mint conditions, never played. I was shocked to find the price online at around $90-150! Very lucky buy!
The VOICE OF ANGELS!
her singing gives me shivers of joy
46:15 Does anyone realize just how difficult it is to walk down a flight of steps, wearing a floor length cloud of a dress and NOT looking down once?!!! Oh yes, and by the way, singing in the meantime.... GOAT Kiri te Kanawa
I have thoroughly enjoyed watching this! Thank you for posting this video!
Extremely gorgeous voice
Wonderful post Thank you. I saw her live in Toronto giving a recital with piano. And she was wonderful~!
At the end I was waiting for Lucy Honeychurch to open the shutters. The first I ever heard Kiri's voice was in A Room With A View, and I thought it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever experienced.
He story her voice always make me so emotional.
Thank you for sharing this, it was wonderful.
You can't help but be amused during the part backstage at "Arabella" where Kiri has to instruct her dresser how to properly apply the glue for the wig.
And to think she sang another 25 years after this. I remember seeing a documentary about Dame Joan Sutherland about this time 1991....soon after she retired. Now I'm watching Dame Kiri shortly after she stopped. I guess one can't go on forever, but Dame Kiri went longer than most and her voice changed very little over the years.
A simply love this artist. That she does Desdemona with Domingo's Otello better than anyone along with Katia is a testament to her voice and artistry. Mil gracias!
Kiri certainly has a lovely voice and this documentary/interview is very interesting
but it is a little sad that she did not mention one of her singing teachers,Florence Norberg who said to her in 1969 that you are a soprano not a mezzo. It was also
Florence who gave her a solid technique now a little altered, but it has I believe
allowed her voice to be as good as it is at her age now.
ConstructiveTeaching This documentary has yet to be finished and shown on television. Until it has, we won't know who is mentioned or not. I'll be posting updates about the documentary's progress as i get them on our facebook page here:facebook.com/pages/KiriOnLine-Dame-Kiri-Te-Kanawa-Fan-Site/205668582811613
KTK VAULT This documentary is The South Bank programme from the early nineties.
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he is right. she is never arch. she is a real actress
one of the things that makes her peerless is shown in the Arabella sequence. both the man at the bottom of the stairs, and the soprano she's rehearsing with have opera face. they distort their faces horribly in order to sing, and you lose any semblance of acting or storytelling. Kiri is always engaged in the story, her face doesn't do that. like he said, she looks natural. and she's the only one
Singers are singers not actors. Marie McLaughlin was a very fine singer back then and had quite a substantial career.
@@peteradaniel opera singers are live performers who are telling stories and portraying characters. They do a good amount of acting training in many places. Kiri, Callas, Caballe, and many others are all excellent at maintaining the story the music comes from. It's just part of the job. Some are great at it, others are not at all. It's just how it is
Just...love!
What is she singing at the start of the documentary? Overlapped with the beautiful vistas of New Zealand
A New Zealand Maori song, "Pokarekare Ana". A love song.
I'M NOT AN OPERA FAN BUT I CHANCED ON SEEING KIRI ONE DAY ON TV AND I WAS MESMERISED BY HER LUSCIOUSNESS AND SEXINESS!!! ASTOUNDING!! I AM IN LOVE WITH HER!!!!!
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Was recording of 'West Side Story' so unimportant?
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Give me HUNGARIEN translation...
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