Kathleen's tone is the most beautiful I've heard of any Opera singer. It retains it's natural beauty even when climbing the scales. Sure, you'll find more powerful singers than Battle but none comes close to that tone. It's like a glass of sweet tea on a hot summers day.
thats because she's a light-lyric soprano (or soprano-leggero) and not a full lyric like Renee Fleming nor a dramatic soprano like Jessye Norman. Other light-lyric sopranos include Gundula Janowitz, Barbara Bonney, etc. Each voice type has a suitable role in opera.
Jessye Norman is truly a gift , no one can complement her voice but Katheleen Battle who also Remains supreme those two Ladie"s can make you leap out your seat!!!!, it dose'nt get any Better than these two ANGEL's !!
Did anyone spot the great Marianne Anderson in the audience - the first black African American to sing at the Met and a leading human rights figure in the USA!
Alistair Jones She was also the first African American to sing inside a place refused her in 1939, Constitution Hall, on March 14, 1953, as part of an American University concert series, and sang there for pay for the first time to an integrated audience.
Just let me stay right here on this floor. Somebody go get the prayer sheet to cover me up. Im fine. Don't touch me! Just amazing, these ladies just bless me so much on this one!
Rest In Peace beautiful goddess of music. Artists live for art and to give us the pleasure of music... may you be singing in heaven for all eternity dearest prima Donna.
Oh my, this performance is forever exponentially unshakable and my favorite! The two 🕊️🐦 songbirds are like a singing earthquake welcoming the "ALMIGHTY." The extraordinary "GRACE" of your voices unequivocally presents a feeling that the mountaintop 🏞️ is so ever peaceful! Jessye's🌹, spirit is all around us, R.I.P. 🤲 Debbie💖
Wow..that was breathtaking!! What voices..stunning..that high note kathryn sings put chills up my back. I cam home one nite in 1990 I was living in southern Florida, turned on PBS and this spiritual concert had just started and I was amazed right from the first song..you must listen to the whol concert it will bring you to tears..such raw emotion and unparalleled talent
Marian Anderson really wasn't an opera singer. She was a recitalist who included operatic arias in her repertoire, but due to racism didn't take the opera stage until she was nearly 60 years of age and past her vocal prime.
@@direfranchement Ok technically Marian wasn't classified as an OPERA SINGER..but she did perform operatic tunes..who are you ..you are picking at in important facts..she was a civil rights activist and was denied the right to sing inside the White House by the RACISTS DAUGHTERS OF THE REVOLUTION..FLOTUS Eleanor Roosevelt had everything needed for Miss Anderson to sing outside..AND GRAND LADY ELEANOR turned down her membership with the American Daughters of the Revolution..Everything AINT in the history book..something's certain folks want kept unknowledgable..I learned alot of history from the people who lived it..My GRANDPARENTS❤❤❤
@@madghee Marian Anderson was denied the right to sing at Constitution Hall by the DAR, not The White House, hence leading to Eleanor Roosevelt resigning as a member and the then Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes inviting Anderson to sing at The Lincoln Memorial. Also---while Marian Anderson was indeed black and broke barriers through her work which was as a recitalist, it would not be accurate to label her a "civil rights activist", certainly not in 1939, and certainly not in the same vein as a Paul Robeson (who was her contemporary) or Mary McLeod Bethune. At that time, most of her career had been spent in Europe since again, racism limited the space allotted for her as a black classical singer in the U.S. Facts are not your enemy. Embrace them.
I had the pleasure attending the dress rehearsal of the spirituals concert and it was amazing! The talent on that stage was breathtaking. Jessye Norman was one of those truly great singers that comes along once in a lifetime. She was also one of the most gracious individuals I have ever met. May her radiance live forever through her music.
Just discovering this now. Exquisite - classic. And to sing it for Marian Anderson. WOW. Beyond simply being beautiful. This is the stuff of legends. Brava.
Un dúo para la historia. Battle es pura delicadeza y parece un pajarito del bosque. Y Norman es todo un volcán de voz con la elegancia y carisma de toda una artista inmensa. Brava a las dos divas.
I love listening to Jessye Norman! I got to meet her when I was in college. As a voice major myself, we were able to go to one of her concerts and meet her after. She was as beautiful person as a singer. She did this song as an encore and had all of us in her hands!
A great ending to a great concert. The combination of unique talents - Battle, Norman , Levine. So wonderful to see Marian Anderson in the box. She was not the first professional african american opera singer as some have suggested here, that was Roland Hayes who was Marian's mentor. However she was the first to sing at the Metropolitan opera . opening the door for singers like Norman , Battle, Verrett and Price. She made a unique contribution.
