Dame Kiri Te Kanawa - "I Dreamed a Dream" - "Les Misérable"

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa sings "I Dreamed a Dream" from the musical "Les Misérables" by Claude-Michel Schönberg (1944- ) on a libretto by Alain Boublil. With Australian Pops Orchestra, John Hopkins / conductor. Recorded at State Theatre Victorian Arts Centre Melbourne, Australia, 1993.

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Music

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• soprano
• opera
• aria
• classical
• diva
• Claude-Michel
• Schönberg
• John
• Hopkins
• Melbourne
• Australia
• Victorian
• Arts
• Centre
• muical

[timesinger]

please do not compare the goddess of sopranos, kiri te kanawa, with susan boyle. i don't understand why we always need to compare~ just enjoy each musician and each performance separately for its own merit.

[ihaveloosefeet06]

Why are we even comparing the two??

[Operaprimo]

My goodness! Is this what they call the Goddess of Sopranos? LOL! I saw her on BBC 2 during an interview about her music and her show, and she was ask about Britain's Got Talent Winner Susan Boyle's rendition of "I dreamed a dream". And she was so mean, she said, I'm not doing a "whizbang" here. Not only to Boyle but also to Katherine Jenkins. She's too perfectionist! It sounds that she's insecure or what? Well, we have different taste and styles. After all, Ms. Kanawa has a talent.

[bernardmvella]

She can do better than this.

[Limpandtotheleft]

That was horrid. Thin and reedy.

Was she trying to stop the 'bel canto' voice that really doesn't suit musical theatre?

FWIW, I think Boyle is dire. to judge from her pace and projection, I'd say Boyle doesn't understand the songs she sings.

[duanenumber2]

@LeoInterHyenaem quite the snob aren't we . . . by the way it is Mariah Carey. A "proper soprano" . . sounds like a designation . . . is it only "designated" for "Dames"? A true "singer" sings what resonates with her/him, and there is no "gutter" or "proper" music for such. A famous musician once said that there were 2 kinds of music . . good music and bad music . . . . and the Dame has earned the right to chose to sing whatever she wants . . .

[cantorgasma]

No one ever did it better. No one ever did anything she sings better. She could sing the phone-book and the universe would be entranced.

[LeoInterHyenaem]

The Dame goes for the easy thing. I'm sure this sort of thing will appeal to a wider public (sentimental fools). Next she'll sing - what was her name - Maria Cary? A proper soprano should not bemean to singing Italian Romantics and almost anything to have followed. Can one imagine Bartoli, Basso, Jaroussky, Mingardo, Invernizzi, Scholl, Prina, Daniels or Semmingsen settling down in that gutter, figuratively speaking!

[beckyxxxful]

I agree this is not the best version for such a song.... I don't see why not compare, it's just for discussing on tastes. Of course this woman rocks, but the song's and story's plot goes better with a more dramatic yet less lyrical interpretation in my opinion. I totally prefer susan boyle's

[Unicron4ever]

This song does not go well with her voice. It's too soft.

Kiri Te Kanawa has a perfect voice for singing arias, not this.

(I go crazy when she sings "O mio babbino caro", btw)

[MadonnaImperia]

@timesinger I love Susan Boyle's rendition of this song, and I admire Kiri Te Kanawa in the Mozart recordings I have with her. However, I strongly disagree with her being the goddess of sopranos. If this was true, a postulate I don't think you'll find any musicologist backing, we may wonder why 1) she didn't bother to learn this song properly and 2) why she didn't perform something slightly more challenging.

[Raaona]

and she clapping and clapping and clapping .............for what, she was bad, each

greehorn can hear this song is not her style