DVD: Kiri Te Kanawa

DVD: Kiri Te Kanawa

DVD:

Kiri Te Kanawa

Johann Strauss - Die Fledermaus / Domingo, Te Kanawa, Prey, Royal Opera Covent Garden

Kiri Te Kanawa, Hermann Prey

Warner Music Group Germany, 2003

Die Fledermaus
Although the performance dates from the 1980s the DVD is visually and technically quite satisfactory. The DVD I ordered suffered from two or three brief interruptions. It was a gift to a relative and I wasn't able to determine whether the problem was with the disc or ...

Mozart - Don Giovanni / Maazel, Raimondi, Te Kanawa, Paris Opera

Ruggero Raimondi, John Macurdy

Sony Pictures, 2002

Good Opera!!
Taking in consideration that it was done in the 70's it is a reasonable recording. Music is great!! Good to have one.

Andrew Lloyd Webber - The Royal Albert Hall Celebration

Tina Arena, Michael Ball

Universal Studios, 2001

Andrew Lloyd Webber- The Royal Albert Hall Celebration
The Andrew Lloyd Webber- The Royal Albert Hall Celebration was just wonderful. I highly recommend this if you did not get to see some of these performers on Broadway. The music and performers are just great and you will be so entertained you will think you are there ...

The Making of West Side Story - Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein, Kiri Te Kanawa

Deutsche Grammophon, 2005

Learning with the Master
The absolute genious of L. Bernstein drives us constantly to tears of emotional joy. Paraphrasing Dame Kiri te Kanawa "...it's like having Mozart in front of you..." I've always been learning music with Bernstein especially when, as young piano student back in the ...

Richard Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier / Te Kanawa, Howells, Haugland, Bonney, Solti, Schlesinger (The Royal ...

Kiri Te Kanawa, Aage Haugland

Kultur Video, 2004

Delightful
I thoroughly enjoyed this performance. Both the singing and the acting were superb. I really cannot imagine that Te Kanawa's Marschallin can be bettered and Anne Howell's Oktavian was an eye-opener for me. If you want a moving and well acted performance you can't do ...

Puccini - Manon Lescaut / Sinopoli, Domingo, Te Kanawa, Allen, Royal Opera Covent Garden

Kiri Te Kanawa, Plácido Domingo

Kultur Video, 2003

Great Opera
Manon Lescaut is one of those operas that has all the elements to be a classic. Beautiful music, poignant story and a tragic end. And of course, it is Puccini's! true that it is not his best one. But not because he was not done his best but because he was still walking ...

Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)

Hermann Prey, Mirella Freni

Deutsche Grammophon, 2005

better than I could ever have hoped
I am not a great opera fan, but I love Mozart and really wanted to hear the whole Marriage of Figaro beyond the too-familiar overture. I read the reviews on this one and it seemed more like a movie than a Brunhilda endurathon. BOY DID I FIND A GOOD ONE! If ratings ...

Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro / Te Kanawa, Cotrubas, von Stade, Luxon, Skram, Fryatt; Pritchard, Glyndebourne ...

Kiri te Kanawa, Ileana Cotrubas

Arthaus Musik, 2004

Brilliant!
This DVD is a treasure. Perhaps one of the best productions ever. Terrific cast, great direction, wonderful music interpretation, great acting and singing. I am personally quite taken with some of the Met productions I've seen, but this is right up there with them, and ...

Verdi - Simon Boccanegra / Levine, Te Kanawa, Metropolitan Opera

Kiri Te Kanawa, Plácido Domingo

Deutsche Grammophon, 2002

Tutti Brava
Simon Boccanegra is greatly underappreciated. For the patient listener, it is an inestimable treasure. The opera may not be ecspecially tuneful, but its epic plot and moving composition, place it at the top of Verdi's Operas. This production has no weak points, it ...

Metropolitan Opera Gala - James Levine's 25th Anniversary

Renee Fleming, Deborah Voigt

Deutsche Grammophon, 2005

A Must-own for any opera fan
I first watched this gala a decade ago when it first aired on PBS. I was smart enough to tape the whole thing then, and those tapes got watched many many times over the next few years. I was in highschool then, and, after leaving home for college, have not had many ...

Kiri Te Kanawa: A Celebration Live at the Royal Albert Hall

Kiri Te Kanawa, Dennis O'Neill

Decca, 2007

A great tribute to Kiri and she sings well
A great prodcution for Kiri's birthday. The "Climb Every Mountain" song was superb; best I've heard. It was nice of her to bring in the Maori people from her native land of New Zealand. One thing I didn't like is is no one spent enough time with the Maori people with ...

Mozart Opera Glyndebourne Collection: Cosi fan Tutte, Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro, Die Entfuhhrung aus ...

Kiri te Kanawa, Frederica von Stade

Arthaus Musik, 2006

Great Opera for a Reasonable Price
These are six of Mozart's finest operas put on by a very fine opera company. And for around 50 bucks it is totally worth it...these are staples that every opera singer/opera lover should have in their collection

Richard Strauss - Capriccio / Runnicles, Te Kanawa, Hagegard, Troyanos, San Francisco Opera

Kiri Te Kanawa, Håkan Hagegård

Kultur Video, 2003

Capriccio's beauty and subtle music in a masterful performance!
Capriccio is a difficult nut to crack as some critic commented somewhere but in a performance like this, the opera becomes a delight and worthy of all our attention. Te Kanawa is in radiant voice becoming Madeleine in voice, drama and acting. Troyanos, already ...

Verdi - Otello / Solti, Domingo, Te Kanawa, Royal Opera Covent Garden

Plácido Domingo, Kiri Te Kanawa

Kultur Video, 2001

An OTELLO for the Ages
I have known and loved this OTELLO for nearly ten years now, having first watched it on videotape. The Elijah Moshinsky production for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, taped live in 1992, features what could be Placido Domingo's definitive version of a role he began ...

Prom at the Palace - The Queen's Concerts, Buckingham Palace

Roberto Alagna, Andrew Davis

Opus Arte, 2002

IDEAL CLASSICAL MUSIC VIDEO & ENTERTAINING TOO
FIRST THOUGHTS: UNREAL ATMOSPHERE - BUT IT IS REAL! All through this concert one could see both the grounds and surroundings of Buckingham Palace, as the sun set. Really pleasant to look at. There were interiors with the Ballet and outdoor fireworks in this ...