Dame Kiri Te Kanawa sings "O Mio Babbino Caro" - Puccini

[elenapercivaldi]

amazing

[AlphonsodeBarbo]

This is Kiri at her best!  Go New Zealand!!!

Sorry, neither England, the Ukraine, Russia...wherever can claim this girl...She's ours!

[khanew23]

The best "O mio babbino caro" !

[luowe11]

Stunning!



[PBDPBD]

Great singing and all, but having to wait almost 1:30minutes? seriously? Literally more than half of this video is just applause (before and after). 

[bigsilverdaddy58]

@PBDPBD ...shes an amazing artist!!! stand up and applaud too!!!!

[bubukaka5]

I'll take that over the pushing out a massive turd voice of Flemming ANYTIME !

[FuneFeai]

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa was born in New Zealand in 1944, and did not leave NZ until 1966 when she was 22, so she did NOT 'grow up" in London!

[Geomeller]

Kiri Te Kanawa born in New Zealand grew up in London and became a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1982, invested as an Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia in 1990 and awarded the Order of New Zealand in the 1995

[lindyjon]

One of the better ones I've heard. Bravo! My favorite next to Sissel and Maria.

[8Footdread]

@JoseEduardoNZ She is a bird of amazing flying powers...she is the Kuaka who is the Bar-tailed godwit, Limosa lapponic - the bird of the greatest migratory flight achievement of all birds on the planet whose flight takes her to Russia and all the way back home to Aotearoa...she is the manu tiioriori e korihi atu i te Aomaarama - the gorgeous lilting songbird who sings the very world into enlightenment.

[chubbieface]

Acting with the voice!!! That's what I like about good Sopranos. It's not just about singing through the song, it's the interpretation.

[katievhoneychurch]

noone does it better.

[Jayonesgirl]

She does this beautifully, she kept my attention, and I could imagine a young girl singing this not an old dame....

[thejedi9makisi]

Go Kiri from ur home new zealand

[Baskerville22]

Probably the best...

[Ephany12]

the best of anyone ever.. can understand the words cant on any other

[shapeepster]

Perfection....aaaahhhhhhhhhh!!­!! BRAVO and ENCORE!!!

[TheMonarquico]

where is Kiri from?? I tought that she was form Uckraine or Russia.

[damekirilover]

New Zealand.

[JoseEduardoNZ]

@TheMonarquico  She is a New Zealander of Maori extraction. A Kiwi... a flightless bird and an inhabitant of those islands. Dame Kiri Te Tanawa is a lovely bird that flies very high as we can tell. All this singing made me homesick.

[Skaramouche]

@TheMonarquico She CAME from tha land down under :-))))

[jhmagno]

prefiero a angela Ghiorghiu, sostiene más el falsete durante más tiempo

[yodavidnavarro]

Falsetto? LOL... "Pianissimo"

[knolly2]

Absolutely beautiful. Dame Kiri is pure class all the way. This is totally amazing. However check out Angela Georghiu's version. I think that maybe just edges it. This is either the 2nd best or THE best on youtube. What do you think?.

[mdcam89]

i think anyone that prefers angela Georghiu over Kiri is musically incompetant

[bigjoetube]

Georghiu is wonderful...............But KIri is beyond wonderful

[Baskerville22]

Angela IS very good...but Kiri just edges her.

[manuka737]

Beautiful! Makes me proud to be maori xoxo hope i can only be an eighth as good as her but i'll keep on hoping practising and dreaming :D

[ticojester]

Dame Kiri is one of the best, if not the best, interpreter of this aria, and not only in this particular interpretation, but in all of them. Her performances do the honor that Puccini's classic deserves. Brilliant.

[richstout]

Wow. She is so musical.

[musicfan28]

Is she lives in New Zealand ?

[seigrandeale]

I LOVE HERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[tenorant]

this is in her prriiiiiimmmmeeee my goodness! I met her last week i really did i got a cuddle :)

[magicmonkichi]

Is it just me, or is much of this concert a lil, up tempo? Brilliant as always from Dame Kiri, but this conductor seems a lil excited. (just my opinion.)