Dame Kiri Te Kanawa sings "Donde lieta usci" - La Boheme

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa sings Mimi's aria "Donde lieta usci" - Addio di Mimi - from the opera "La Boheme" by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924). A "Victoria State Opera" production, John Hopkins / conductor. Melbourne, Australia, 1989.

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• soprano
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• Australia
• Melbourne

[No1ZmeskalFan]

I would listen to Kiri sing about anything. if you are gonna always compare singers to others that gets dangerous. Sound is a matter of opinion. I would prefer listening to Kiri sing something wrong than most others doing it right. Her voice has a tone and quality that is unmatched to me and I love her in every role she does. Sure others have done better at certain roles. But others have done better than them to. it could go on and on if we always compare and never just enjoy. I LOVE YOU KIRI!!!

[frigginpoop]

HaHa. Are you a singer? Cause if you were a singer, you would look at the obvious. This woman is singing, without a microphone, in a 500+ room theatre, over an entire orchestra that is not always playing piano, and you can still hear her consonants and vowels and her dynamic range. It takes technique to do that. There's no way she could have produced some of the tone colors that she was producing and there's no way she would be doing this opera for you to critique, if she didn't have technique.

[Youkali67]

Kiri tiene unas grabaciones exquisitas de Mozart, diría que perfectas pero que desilusión escucharía en vivo, su voz es diminuto y no expresa nada, es una estatua. Su "i" siempre ha sido muy fea, muy apretada. Aun así hizo una gran carrera por su musicalidad.

[peque1204]

@No1ZmeskalFan you're so right!

[FoggyRoad81]

@eugenelohks Very true. If it was easy, there would be more than a handful of singers who are convincing in this music. It requires, MUCH more than bel canto in terms of mental focus on using the words to shape the drama of the lyrics.

[eugenelohks]

@Carolynnhall I know... ppl think, since there's no coloratura, and the high notes are spread out, it's somehow easier... I personally find it the most difficult, over bel canto and the hardest Strauss!

[MrArthurovenezuela]

Esto es el canto exquisito. Muy bien en La Boheme. Superior es a la Callas, que tiene una voz árida. Aquí se necesita dulzura y delicadeza, tal como Kiri.

[Bigman240]

Brava KIRI!

[Vairguy09]

A beautiful rendition. Dame Kiri has a lovely voice and great technique. Brava!

[Dymension]

Oh, you peopel talk so much shit. Her singing is fine. Is she the ideal Mimi? Probably not. But I've heard her live and her voice had so much bloom especially in certain repertoire. Hell, I even heard her sing "Ebben, ne andro lontana" at Avery Fisher hall, and her B was the loudest sound I ever heard from her...you can't judge from what the microphones pick up, you have to experience them in the hall..

[Carolynnhall]

O stop bickering and just love it. Puccini's operas are notoriously hard to sing. She is a prima donna!