Kathleen Battle Interview

from Oct 9, 1999, highly editted clip from a 30 minute interview... check out complete interview before finalizing your judgement. i felt very bad for both Kathleen and the interviewer, very uncomfortable watching this ending of this editted clip.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Kathleen
• Battle
• walk
• out

[tsunamieyes]

An agreement breeched is an interview lost! Is this woman still a reporter? Miss Battle showed class by walking away and not putting her in check! I'd walked too..

[dybb234]

All the name calling is unnecessary. Mentally putting yourself in someone else's shoes can help us all have better understanding of each other.

[MariposaGirl1981]

Beautiful voice or not she is still a bitch if a normal person did that would that be ok? Of course not! Just because you are a star doesn't mean you are any better tab anyone else!

[RonaldBarone]

I can understand why she got mad, but they did the same thing many times to Maria Callas and she managed it so well why could Battle do the same?

[PClaytonHuggins]

Laurie Brown...yea, I saw this interview, when it aired on CBC Toronto, Laurie did a similar thing with Aretha Franklin - gourding her and then saying: but I was just being a journalist, thing is, she is not. I wondered then, if all those years of interviewing music "stars" for Much Music didn't do something to her and her attitude towards musicsians. She clearly has no respect for Ms Battle (nor for Aretha Franklin), which says so much more about her than her interview subjects.

[foreigner2thisworld]

A skilled interviewer would have obtained the information she was seeking with tact. Good for Battle -she did the right thing by walking out. This is more of a reflection of the poor skills and behavior of pop media personalities than it is anything else.

[pedrofribeiro]

@donpkra With that kind of cheap comment, you should try to get a job with this interviewer... And just for the record, Maria Callas was fired from the Met too, also for being too much perfectionist. But you don't have to believe me, darlin, watch her interview with Mike Wallace. Callas and Battle, the greatest sopranos that ever sang at the Met, and they were both misinterpreted and fired by stupid Managers.

[miuzefreak]

Oh GET OVER YOURSELF MISS KATHLEEN! lol

[Pavarotti48]

@miuzefreak I am a huge fan of both Callas and Battle. While I can appreciate the way Callas answered similar questions with calm and dignity I can also appreciate Ms. Battle's walking out of the the interview. With all due respect there's just some lines you never cross with a true Diva!

[Pavarotti48]

Of course she's difficult to work with. Ms. Battle strives for excellence in her performances and I bet she accepts nothing less from those around her. Good for her!!

[jerrya1979]

What a cheap question.the interviewer is the one who comes off unprofessional.

[preachazkid09]

@racourdav I think everyone needs to leave her alone for not commenting. Who would honestly say "Yes. I have terrible behavior". It's not gonna happen!