Kiri Te Kanawa - Ave Maria - Otello 1992

This version is very beautiful. My voice teacher took lessons from Tebaldi, so I'm a little partial to her voice and technique. But this does well for listening study....

I've loved this recording for years and years. It's almost TOO beautiful...

Fantastic!IVery true TheValdoro. thirty stars!!!!!

the only one to rival Tebaldi with beauty of tone and simplicity of action. Direct honest and praying not for herself, but for all of us!!!

True that. NO ONE not even La Divina could sing this aria as smoothly as Kiri. She is the ONLY soprano I like singing this.

EXACTLY! We need to be friends!

The difference between the 1982 in Verona, the 83 in ROH and this 1992 is like heaven and earth. In the 82 she vocalizes beautifully, but there is a detachment that makes it not work dramatically. The 83 ROH is a little hysterical, and the Italian not very idiomatic. This clip is the culmination of it all: It has the immediacy of the text, the beauty of the singing and the calmness of certain, but welcomed death.

I could not live without this clip, and i am not a Kiri fan.

No sorry. It WAS 1992. at ROH. With Domoingo. I was in that production

ok... I really believe this is from 92 as XPRT10R says

According with the DVDs this production is from 92 (ROH); The MET with Renee is from 95. The one from 1982 is with Vladimir Atlantov as Otello at Arena di Verona. Her Ave Maria from 82 is also here on youtube ;)