Dame Kiri Te Kanawa sings "Dove sono" - "Le nozze di Figaro"

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa sings La Countessa di Almaviva's aria "Dove sono i bei momenti" from the opera "Le nozze di Figaro" K.492 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Recorded at St. David's Hall, Cardiff. With Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera, Charles Mackerras / conductor, Cardiff, UK, 1990.

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Music

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• Hochzeit
• Welsh
• soprano
• opera
• aria
• classical
• diva
• Mackerras
• oper
• countess
• Rosina
• Konzert
• concert
• orchestra
• Nozze
• Figaro

[theblueangel28]

holy mackerel I want to sing in that place!!

this really is my very favorite aria

and the best singer to do it

[TheSmoshmy]

DIVINE!!!!!

[nclysander]

Probably. Singing with Bohm is very different from singing with Mackerras, and those are only two of the many. I agree with you that she is the best Countess, achieving something very special with the role - but the only one allowed to sing it?? Have you heard Price (Margaret, not Leontyne), Vaness, Grummer, Schwarzkopf, Jurinac? All give fabulous readings of this aria, even if they did not achieve the same association with the role Kiri did.

[nclysander]

Who in the world is that????

[mysticyx]

No, you forget about Maria Mena.

[mozartianissimo]

Bravissima, Dame Kiri!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Uma das maiores Condessas de todos os tempos!

[ndldidier]

Do the specialists agree if I say : we had - we still have - two true "mozartsiennes", Mademoiselle Margaret Price and Mademoiselle Kiri Te Kanawa ?

[paulotomaso]

Shes the greatest, I dont think anyone else should be allowed to do this one. I also really enjoy hearing her different readings over the years, which I guess is her adapting to the different conductors? I don't know, but its always brilliant. Thanks for this.