Kiri Te Kanawa at the 麻豆社
New Zealand soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa looks back at her life in song through 40 years of performances from the archives, including rugby anthem World in Union on Top of the Pops.
The charismatic New Zealand soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa looks back at her life in song through forty years of classic performances from the 麻豆社 archives, from her first TV performance on The Harry Secombe Show in 1971 to her appearances on Top of the Pops to sing the rugby anthem World in Union in 1991, plus performances from the Last Night of the Proms and Terry Wogan's chat show.
Dame Kiri's dramatic and operatic skills are captured in the Royal Opera's production of Puccini's Manon, she describes working with Leonard Bernstein, Georg Solti and on Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio, and she recalls the royal wedding in 1981 at which she sang Handel's Let the Bright Seraphim to a global TV audience of 700 million.
There's documentary footage of the house where Kiri grew up in New Zealand (now a car park), she vividly evokes the East End of London, where she studied as a student when she first came to London, and we see her goofing around on the golf course with Placido Domingo.
As Dame Kiri says in her candid new interview for this programme in which she reflects on her 麻豆社 appearances, "If I look back what you have is snippets of my life, I suppose.".
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Giacomo Puccini
Chi Il Bel Sogno Di Doretta
Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Conductor: Peter Knight. -
Kiri Te Kanawa
Maori Folk Song
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Giuseppe Verdi
Willow Song
Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Conductor: Robin Stapleton. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. -
Franz Leh谩r
Love Unspoken
Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Performer: Pl谩cido Domingo. Conductor: Robin Stapleton. Orchestra: 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra. -
George Frideric Handel
Rejoice Greatly
Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Conductor: Pl谩cido Domingo. Orchestra: 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra. -
George Frideric Handel
Let the Bright Seraphim
Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Conductor: Sir David Willcocks. -
Leonard Bernstein
Somewhere
Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Performer: Pl谩cido Domingo. Conductor: Robin Stapleton. Orchestra: 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra. -
Gioachino Rossini
The Duet of Two Cats
Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Performer: Norma Burrowes. Performer: Robin Stapleton. -
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Memory
Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Performer: David Firman. Conductor: Robin Stapleton. Orchestra: 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra. -
Giacomo Puccini
Sola, Perduta, Abbandonata
Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. -
Joseph Canteloube
Malurous Qu聮o Uno Fenno
Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Performer: Roger Vignoles. -
Leonard Bernstein
I Feel Pretty
Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. -
Leonard Bernstein
I Have a Love
Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Performer: Tatiana Troyanos. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. -
Henri Duparc
Chanson Triste
Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Performer: Roger Vignoles. -
Frederick Loewe
The Rain in Spain
Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Performer: Jeremy Irons. Conductor: John Mauceri. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Composer: Alan Jay Lerner. -
Frederick Loewe
I Could Have Danced All Night
Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Conductor: John Mauceri. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Composer: Alan Jay Lerner. -
Richard Strauss
惭耻迟迟别谤迟盲苍诲别濒别颈
Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Performer: Georg Solti. -
Giacomo Puccini
O Mio Babbino Caro
Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Performer: Roger Vignoles. -
Paul McCartney
The World You'聮re Coming Into
Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Performer: Jeremy Budd. Conductor: Carl Davis. Composer: Carl Davis. -
Gustav Holst
World in Union
Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Composer: Charlie Skarbek. -
Alfredo Catalani
Ebben Ne Andro Lontana
Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra. -
Thomas Arne
Rule Britannia!
Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra. -
George Gershwin
Summertime
Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth. Orchestra: 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra. -
Leonard Bernstein
I Feel Pretty
Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa. -
George Frideric Handel
Rejoice Greatly
Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa. -
Renata Tebaldi, Giacomo Puccini, Francesco Molinari鈥怭radelli & Santa Cecilia Academy Rome Orchestra
Manon Lescaut - Sola, perduta, abbandonata
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Frankie Paul
I'm Free
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Sarah Brightman
La Wally
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George Gershwin
Summertime
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The Mantovani Orchestra
Summertime
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Interviewed Guest | Kiri Te Kanawa |
Performer | Kiri Te Kanawa |
Producer | Andy King-Dabbs |
Executive Producer | Mark Cooper |
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