Kiri Te Kanawa & Frederica Von Stade - Being A Diva
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- Kiri Te Kanawa & Frederica Von Stade in an excerpt from Imagine. The Alan Yentob BBC Arts program in which he takes at look at operatic divas and what it takes to be one. Glyndebourne 2006.
I sang with Flicka here in Los Angeles. One of the most generous and beautiful and real people I have had the pleasure to know.
I saw them in recital at this time...and was lucky enough to meet them after the concert. I spoke to both of them about my singing and told Flicka "I am constantly working on technique....and it's sooo damn hard." She said something to the effect of "join the club!". So down to earth....and Dame Kiri was absolutely gracious as well.
The duett at the end ist wow....❤
Dame Kira has been a very even and well projected, creamy and gleaming LYRIC SOPRANO. I saw her in Arabella and her performance was stunning. Her top shot through the hall and her flow was never wan nor overly passionate it was a perfect lyric soprano expression. It’s very interesting that she started out as a Mezzo and that many people felt Von Stade was a lazy soprano as her soprano extension is glorious. Many also felt a caprino quality crept in early for the first 15 years because she was singing in a register that was too low. This disappeared by the 1990’s. Dame Kiri tried her hand and recorded Traviata, Tosca and Manon Lescaut. The last two were underwhelming in reviews. And she stated that Traviata was an awfully long night of singing. At either rate both sang their hearts out and gave many lovely performances.
It's so interesting that so many singers can't be honest about how their voice has changed.
Kiri is the only singer in the UNIVERSE who destroyed her voice too soon by singing ABSOLUTELY nothing :D A phenomenon of how a singer can destroy her voice without singing anything at all
haha. Well she did some heavy dramatic roles likes Tosca and Puccini Manon which may have prematurely aged the voice. But she held up fine into her 50s, no? I wouldn't say she destroyed it... Or what performances/recordings are you thinking of?
Manon can destroy a Voice? thats a new :D... Tosca yes but they way she sang it? :D
The Puccini Manon is heavy stuff... Heavy orchestration. Watch Netrebko singing it, she is absolutely bellowing! :)
Manon is just typical Puccini lirico-spinto stuff... only the final act is reasonably heavy, but an Andrea Chenier or Turandot it is not lol.
Te Kanawa to my ears was a beautiful but completely and irretrievably boring singer. Same old repertoire that got more boring the more she sang it.
The closest thing we will ever get to "The Three Sopranos."