Kiri Te Kanawa At The BBC

The charismatic New Zealand soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa looks back at her life in song through forty years of classic performances from the BBC archives, from her first TV performance on The Harry Secombe Show in 1971 to her appearances on Top of the Pops to sing the rugby anthem World in Union in 1991, plus performances from the Last Night of the Proms and Terry Wogan's chat show.
Dame Kiri's dramatic and operatic skills are captured in the Royal Opera's production of Puccini's Manon, she describes working with Leonard Bernstein, Georg Solti and on Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio, and she recalls the royal wedding in 1981 at which she sang Handel's Let the bright Seraphim to a global TV audience of 700 million.
There's documentary footage of the house where Kiri grew up in New Zealand (now a car park), she vividly evokes the East End of London where she studied as a student when she first came to London, and we see her goofing around on the golf course with Placido Domingo.
As Dame Kiri says in her candid new interview for this programme in which she reflects on her BBC appearances, "If I look back what you have is snippets of my life, I suppose.".
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[@petra4947]

Himmel auf der Erde. Das stimmst, aber ohne dieses Herz, diese Liebe, wäre es nicht möglich…..Ihre Stimme strahlt von dem, was sie innen hat. Liebe. Das ist sooo herrlich! Sie ist ein Engel.

[@craiglemming1510]

Happy 80th Birthday, Dame Kiri!

[@Bailey2006a]

Listening to this glorious voice is heaven on earth. Brava

[@petra4947]

Ich bin Solistin an der Staatsoper Prag. Dame Kiri ist die absolute schönste, wunderbare! So ein schöne Mensch und Künstlerin!
Jetzt studiere ich Manon Lescaut…. In jeder Oper ist sie mein Vorbild. Wirklich, nicht einmal Callas. Ihr Herz ist das schönste, die strahlt durch ihr herrliches Singen! Wie rührend! Mein Lebens Wunsch sie zu begegnen…
Danke!!!!!Gott segne sie und ihre Lieben!

[@jlb9368]

A rare and beautiful talent - gift to the world.

[@siriaperez97]

Amazing! She´s the perfect example than a real music lover can shine besides the genre that she/he sings...Magical voice!

[@wotan10950]

Lovely profile. I saw Kiri onstage in New York several times - the Countess, Fiordiligi, the Marschallin. Also Violetta, which wasn’t convincingly acted, but it was the most beautiful sound I’ve ever heard from a human voice.

[@pam0626]

Kiri’s beautiful voice filling that cavernous space at St. Paul’s Cathedral gives me chills to this day.

[@marilynwoolford-chandler1161]

‘There’s a place for us’ brought a powerful emotional response from me quite unexpectedly. Bernstein Kiri and Placido ...what an overwhelming combination. The glimpse of the Bernstein rehearsal and the quiet courage it must have taken for Kiri to challenge his non stop smoking
Thank you BBC; I will be watching my fellow Kiwi (NewZealander) in this marvellous programme many many times...so much richness ...

[@joyciejd9673]

I so enjoyed this video. I love Dame Kiri and it was great to see her through all stages of her life. Thank you for this experience

[@normanzurich2781]

C’est énervant 😊 cette facilité à chanter ❤❤❤

[@IsabellePETIET]

Merveilleuse! La plus sublime des Mimi à Paris au Palais Garnier avec P Domingo: un souvenir inoubliable.

[@magicmonkichi]

[@Marcel_Audubon]

my favorite

[@pega17pl]

There's only one danger: Kiri Te Kanawa's voice could be too beautiful we forget dramatic of content she sings about.

[@davidtracey9094]

such class

[@Weisz82]

Love her

[@marywills3617]

Always a pleasure to watch this "Poetry In Motion"!

[@uppityglivestockian]

So wonderful to know more about Dame Kiri, one of my two most favorite sopranos ever. Every single time I see her sing with Placido, I imagine the beautiful babies they could have made together. ***slaps own face*** Did I say that out loud? Sigh.... My favorite Desdemona to his Otello. My favorite Manon to his De Grieux. Earth shatteringly moving. Thank you for sharing this with us. Brava!

[@nicolaholgate7]

Kiri and Leonard=Dream Team

[@anomastro]

MERAVIGLIOSO IL DUETTO BUFFO DEI GATTI DI ROSSINI

[@raine5445]

Kiri TeKanawa and Maestro Placido Domingo 1971

[@jesusnuovo5346]

A great suprise to find this documental. Thank, you for sharing this material with us. Did you record it from a TV special?

[@rosariabianchi3445]

Madam tell me because in your biograph Jeremy Irons and Warren mictchell they are not singer.Write back soon

[@noyoufkoff11]

wats that 1 called at 24:00

[@RaymondHng]

"Sola, Perduta, Abbandonata" from _Manon Lascaut_ (Puccini)

[@soavemusica]

So we couldn`t hear her singing Pokarekare Ana in a rare 1975 recording, because the interviewer/director just had to start interviewing. How is possible not to understand the meaning of her singing? How is it possible not to shut up?

[@johnhames7333]

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