Kiri Te Kanawa - Let The Bright Seraphim - Prince Charles & Lady Diana's Wedding, St Pauls 1981
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- Dame Kiri Te Kanawa sings "Let the Bright Seraphim" from the oratorio "Samson" by George Frideric Handel during the wedding of Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer in St Paul's Cathedral, London on the 29th July 1981
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Kiri was already a famous opera singer at this point. But this performance made her famous around the world and put her on par with Pavarotti and Domingo.
I love the faces she makes while she is singing like saying: I know exactly what I'm doing and I'm enjoying it.
I remember watching this as a 6 year old and how proud us New Zealand people were to see one of our very own.
This performance catapulted Kiri Te Kanawa an international superstar of the classical music world. She deserves.
she was a superstar already in that time.
Agreed--that's why they had her.@@victoriassazonova
“The live broadcast made Te Kanawa a household name.” Royal Opera House Magazine, January 2024.
@@kerry3679 Tell it like it is!
I watched this as a 16 year old in Trinidad 🇹🇹 West Indies and fell in love with Dame Kiri instantly. What a consummate performer, what a diva in the right sense of the word. Fabulous.
u sound fabulouz!
Have loved Dame Kiri Te Kanawa since I was 16 and I will be 70 in two months time and I still love he.
John Davy you are abit ahead of me. I’ve loved her since I was 20 & am now 70 & also still love her. Isn’t she lovely? She really establishes the royal tone.
Like a brightly plumed songbird. Brava!
I never forgot this and loved Dame Kiri ever since especially loved her clothes
ThePastorale She's gorgeous!
I am so proud to be a New Zealander🇳🇿 xoxoxo ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Amazzzing Amazzzing...OMG ...Dame Kiri Te Kanawa ...walks through... this aria like its a daily occurrence..... effortlessly.
Kiri Te Kanawa is certainly in my top 5 of great sopranos in the past 60 years. She is so versatile even now ie.2016. :)
Ironically, in late 2016 is when she quietly retired from singing. She is still teaching and every once in a while when teaching she will sing a note or two....and the voice is still very much there.
Did you hear her sing on “ Downton Abbey? Not so good!
I was reading the book Once were Warriors and I had to search this up.. I've never heard of Kiri but I'm glad I do now.. she's a brilliant opera singer
My favourite of all voices. Beautiful beyond imagining.
In 99, I used to wake up in the morning preparing for work @ Kloof Mine at the sounds of this piece by Kiri Te Kanawa-set as alarm on my Technics Hifi.....Kwaks.......
Dame Kiri is sublime
Long live the QUEEN of the sopranos!
I salute her ! Islander represent right there
No microphone
Wow
So good😇
One of the all time greats, respect to a fine lady....
Edgar Alan YEAAAAAH!
She is perfection!
I remember watching this ITV as a child, & the picture froze, partway through! This would never happen today, with modern media technology.......
This is my main memory of that service. The voice. And the crooked necks.
Such a wonderful soprano.
I remember this. We could no listen to any of the music in South Africa because of sanctions, so when Kirk sung they had to put on a recorded voice. Same with all the hymns.
How well I remember that day!
Most beautiful of Handel's arias!❤️🙏❤️🛐🛐🛐
In my opinion!
Amazing!!!!
sublime moment in history
theblueangel28, What is the historic importance of that wedding?
@Simon Brenden, and what is the historical importance of Prince Charles?
Alfmedina it was the first time a black Pacific Islander was invited to perform a solo at a British royal wedding! So yes I am a very proud black islander !
@@Colourednexotic she's not black. And she hardly acknowledges her maori heritage. Polynesian aren't black.
@@ngatihine6072 seriously come on black comes in all shades u idi
One of the greatest opera singers of all time. I grew up with her beautiful singing.
Who the hell would down-vote this sublime performance? Not liking the dress is no excuse 😉
Making the dress is such an healthy combination. Norma Moriceau is responsible for the costumes during the 1981-1982 season.
Such glorious music …who could guess that all this happiness would end so ingloriously…
She sung wonderful!
Dame Te Kanawa was already a opera stella
Her voice and presence stand out like a bright seraph
Came here after watching Pretty Yende singing Sacred Fire for the coronation. Another sublime voice and sublime aria. Utterly spellbinding.
Stunning
*can't believe she's not using a microphone* !!
opera singers never use microphones to sing classical music
for the same reason Church choirs don't use mics
John Wallace - so wonderful! All the best!
Amazing 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
This live version compared to the one at Prince Harry's wedding....the difference is clear, and yet this was 1981. Dame Kiri controls herself but Elin at Prince Harry's wedding was probably very very nervous but then again Dame Kiri at this time had already sung on most of the worlds Opera stages hence the amount of control.
Noe' Kris I heard Prince Charles were responsible for some of the music act like the kingdom choir & possibly the bridal walk song for Meghan.😅 a bit squeaky but Prince Charles were a patron for music and she is a welsh singer, so maybe 1 of the reason he chose her.😅
absolutely stunning , too bad the wedding didn t pan out as well as the aria !
Tom Kelly I agree. Glad Will and Kate are so happy, unlike Charles and Di. Poor Di didn't deserve such mistreatment. But I digress. Kiri and Renee are the best.
I sing. I've sung some opera. This is brilliant.
Isn't she a great singer ?
Oscar Meijer YEAAAAAH! my favorite along with the birthday girl Renee Fleming. 2/14/17 Yeaaah, Renee and Kiri!
Love ❤️
Kiri, sing happy birthday to Renee Fleming, today's her birthday.
I could never sing with that collar around my neck. That said, I love her and love that her favorite male singer was Elvis.
What a magnificent voice Kiri had in the right repertoire. This aria, however, taxes her in the extreme and while she manages to conquer most of it, the limitations are obvious in numerous instances of grabbed breaths and un-Handelian phrasing.
lol, you had your hearing evaluated or is it just pretentiousness?
crazy clothes!!
gertrude aucoin didn't notice...I'm so spellbound by her voice I had no idea whether she was wearing crazy clothes or church choir vestments (surplice etc.) :)
p.s. I love the names of the vestments... ruff, surplice, etc. I was in a choir briefly but got tired of going "wheeze...gasp..." Playing the organ is more my speed than...wheeze...gasp...singing.
She was worried about her hat falling off her head.
big bird out stalkin LOL F***ED
With this in mind, filmmaker Gillian Armstrong and her collaborators were DP Russell Boyd, film editor Nicholas Beauman,
production designer Luciana Arrighi and costume designer Norma Moriceau who put it all together to make it more beautiful.
Especially they made an numerous combination for Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and others too.
That would be added to my new opera of singing Zeneckoj Family Member Names.
Cool hat
According to Ellen Mirojnick, the Emmy winning and Oscar nominated costume designer who gave such wonderful praise about
cool hat back in the fall of 1981 and even an lovely dress which was designed by Norma Moriceau with such glorious,
happiness, spirit, triumph and joy.
kiRI TE KENAWA ONLY ONE
BRAVA...BRAVİSSİMA...MY GREAT SOPRANO....B R A V A A A A.....
Great job. Great hat. Not a great dress.
"Yes, I Understand" - Patsy Cline (1957).
Shame about Tom Flemings commentary right over the introductory bars and nearly crashing into the vocal.
Sadly, this was truly all pomp & circumstance. But who were we to know? 😢
She was highly criticized by her apparel on that day.
I believe in you, David. I really do. But Dame Kiri Te Kanawa should wear a few wedding dresses on many wonderful occasions all around.
And what the world says, "It's time to change your attitude. It's time to change your behavior. It's time to change your wardrobe.
It's time to reach into new heights and achieve yourself."
Beautiful voice. Beautiful song. But that outfit. Oh the 80s fashion disaster!!
You wanna know something? That outfit was very lovely by designer Norma Moriceau. By September 1994, most fashion magazines
such as Bazaar and Glamour were captured their taste and interest in today's world.
Kiri is a great soprano, but who chose that weird dress?
I like it. Remember, this was the '80s.
@@margaretross9150 , I well remember the 80’s and NEVER saw anyone wear such a weird outfit ; every fellow Kiwi I spoke
to at the time really hated it and said it spoiled the whole occasion for them.I still agree.Bad taste all round.
I love that wonderful dress, it was designed by Norma Moriceau of the Mad Max and Jack Ryan as well as White Sands fame.
After all these years I still marvel at who was it who talked Dame Kiri into wearing this hideous frock and this ridiculous hat. :-)
It was the 80's. 😎
Beautiful voice.Ridiculous dress.
The dress isn't that bad - if that's the case. Get a wedding gown!
I can’t quite make out the lyrics. Nice hat but it won’t keep the rain off for long. She should get an umbrella or anorak.
Handel used to live just down the road from my house in London - quite a few years ago. He never made the Top Twenty though. Not like The Birdy Song. That was class.
Sloppy colaratura.