Kiri te Kanawa sings an aria in La Fille du Régiment (13/02/10)

Dame Kiri te Kanawa makes her appearance as the Duchesse de Krakentorp in La Fille du Régiment + an aria by Alberto Ginastera; at the Metropolitan Opera, New York.

Gaetano Donizetti
La Fille du Régiment

Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Marie: Diana Damrau
Tonio: Juan Diego Flórez
Marquise of Berkenfeld: Meredith Arwady
Duchess of Krakenthorp: Kiri Te Kanawa
Sulpice: Maurizio Muraro

Production: Laurent Pelly
Set Designer: Chantal Thomas
Costume Designer: Laurent Pelly
Lighting Designer: Joël Adam
Choreographer: Laura Scozzi

--Alberto Ginastera--
"En mis pagos hay un arbol
Que del olvido se llama,
Al que van a despenarse,
Vidalitay, Vidalitay,
Los moribundos del alma.

Para no pensar en vos
Bajo el arbol del olvido
Me acosté una nochecita,
Vidalitay, Vidalitay,
Y me quedé bien dormido.

Al despertar de aquel sueño
Pensaba en vos otra vez,
Pues me olvidé de olvidarte,
Vidalitay, Vidalitay,
Encuantito me acosté."

February 13, 2010

Category:

Music

Tags:

• kiri
• te
• kanawa
• la
• fille
• du
• régiment
• damrau
• florez
• farewell
• krakentorp

[dialectgirl]

Thanks, though you beat me to it - I was going to upload this;). It would have been fun to actually have been there, too bad I missed it! Thanks to cbc2 for the broadcast! :)

[leoperarm]

I'm sorry to hear that you were uploading this, I hope not to make you that uncomfortable ;-) Thanks for the comment!

[baritonebynight]

I saw her in recital not long ago and she was hardly voiceless. She still has the creamy instantly recognizable sound. She has taken very good of her voice and is proving that one can sing for a very long time if one sings with excellent technique and is careful to sing the right stuff.

[jacksvoice]

I was lucky enough to hear this first hand on the opening night.  The most wonderful thing was that her voice rang throught the auditorium, seemingly effortlessly. Bliss.

[newhere66]

It's an HONOR for Fille's protagonists to have as a special guest star such as a Dam KTK!

[theblueangel28]

she sounds fantastic

[byronjohnmcdonald]

Never watched anything so awkward!



[Tusson07]

I was lucky enough to see her first countess/Marriage of Figaro/Glyndebourne in 1971, it was a dream : she was so beautiful and had such a magnificent voice. A bit later she sang Faust at Covent Garden. And I saw her a couple of years ago in Athens, the voice was still beautiful.

[Bluemango123]

@vocalissimo1

It is a comic Opera, so she could have been exaggerating.

[veeerooniicaaa]

Gracias por el video!!

[vocalissimo1]

What a terrible choice of song, and the Dame's voice is clearly not what it used to be.

[RRydnew]

@Drelnis

I tried to DVR it but it came in scrambled and unplayable. I guess one must put a camera in front of a telecast and record it that way. The radio broadcasts I just place in a disc and record from the hard drive on my laptop using the local classical radio station's internet gadget. I think that the Met itself sells the previous season's telecast in DVD/Blu-ray but I am not sure. Hope that wasnt confusing?

[RRydnew]

@renzo0510

Living in Texas we hear a lot of Ginastera espically here in the Dallas Opera. Kiri's Spanish was never that great but she does give it a good try. She (and Leontyne) sound amazing still! I thank you for a great comment on Ginastera and KTK. Love her here in the Big D as well. Thanks for posting.

[RRydnew]

What is this I am reading? First of all, to those like me who have heard Kiri in recital and preformance, she hasnt lost that easy way her voice fills the room. Second, by her own admition, Spanish and German are not her strongest languages and finally, WIH did you expect from her...1982 or something? Technically and vocally, KTK can still hold her own with those 1/2 her age and will be singing long after those kids leave the stage! Brava Kiri!