The Operatic Brilliance of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa | Perspective 

One of the most beautiful voices ever. She was also a great singer of baroque music. I highly recommend her Handel recording "The Sorceress".

Dame Kiri is truly one of the most exceptional singers of our time. She was able to sing very well into her early 70s because of her exceptional technique and intelligence. She once said "the voice is like a salami , every time to use it , you take a slice off." Therefore, she didn't pack her schedule and for the most part only sang what she felt fit her instrument. I saw in her 2006, thinking she was already retired from staged opera and only making occasional appearances here and there. Boy was I wrong! She was in excellent voice and continued to appear in opera and recital for another ten years including one final Marschallin in 2010 at the age of 66!

I saw Dame Kiri in a concert with piano in Toronto....around 15ish years ago. I was a huge fan, and it was my first time hearing her live and with just a piano. I shall never forget it! Brava!

Best soprano who has ever lived!

Wonderful insight to 1 of the greatest doprano

I saw her in several Richard Strauss operas in San Francisco. She had the perfect voice for those roles.

Was introduced to opera from her solos in the Room with A view film. Had thought of sopranos as screechy yet here was the most gorgeous golden voice. She opened up the opera world and I graduated to Callas.

Thanks for this upload. Dame Kiri was the total package, a sublime interpreter for the opera stage in every aspect. No one need have left the opera house wanting. Radiantly beautiful in voice and form, along with a better average acting chops, though sometimes uneven in dramatic roles, she more than compensated in comic roles. I'm going to dig up a copy of the film Don Giovanni with Ruggero Raimondi and Teresa Berganza, clips of which you feature in this doc. I also learned a few tidbits I didn't know until now; I'm always on the hunt for new knowledge. Mil gracias, paz.

Why are they referring to her in the past tense? Last time I checked, she's still alive and well.

Thank you for sharing these wonderful videos with us! In this lockdown, I need all the help I can get.

The Santa Fe opera festival is one of the best summer festivals in the world. Keri and Fredericka von Stade made their big debuts in that production of The Marriage of Figaro before they were big stars. And the rest is history. Long and glorious careers for both.

She was one of the most wonderful singers who ever took the stage. A fantastic voice but she went on far to long. That was said. But in her best years she sang unforgettable roles.

I remember when my mother first listened to her. She wept. A beautiful person, inside and out. A class act.

Kiri is our Aotearoa princess!

This makes me very proud to be a New Zealander.

Incomparable Kiri! Opera royalty!

In spite of using several clips from the 1983 Covent Garden 'Fledermaus' in the beginning, they never mentioned that role at all, which is a shame. I've seen several productions, and I can't even remember the names of the ladies playing Rosalinde. Dame Kiri's sense of comic timing in that role was impeccable. My favortie is when Falke is announced by Adele: Well, at least he's not another tenor...

Very Regal!

Correction ; she did NOT train as a “mezzo soprano”. Dame Sister Mary Leo, her N.Z. teacher, trained her as a lyric soprano.

I wonder why they played vpn Stade’s Cherubini when talking about her Nozze

The voice at 12:12 is Frederica Von Stade...

That's Frederica von Stade singing @11:59

Teresa Berganza never got even close to Otello. She was a Rossini specialist mezzo

Silky throat high way, magnefficient

You should read "Kiri the real biography"! She is a "Diva" and like many divas a monster! Her behaviour in Auckland which built a theatre for her was so bizarre and ungrateful that they put her statue in a cupboard for years. She also was cruel to the NZ conductor who did so much to ensure her success. There were many other wonderful young singers in Auckland who were never given the opportunities that she had showered upon her. She can be very rude and her unfortunate behaviour has spoiled her image for many of us.

Please Please Please do Andrea bocelli Please Please Please .

Narrator: "during the 80's Kiri continue to delight audiences in the biggest production of Opera across the globe, but it was in 1991 that she reached pop music charts success" - I was expecting some blockbuster that had hit the Globe - "singing a Hymn for Rugby" ... kkkkkk ... It seems that the rest of the world don't give a damn to Rugby cups ...

Kiri Te Kanawa? Pretty voice and gracious lady but I would think after Callas Perspective would have done a profile on Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballe, Birgit Nilsson, Renata Tebaldi, or Leontyne Price. They seem of more importance in the operatic world, imho. Oh, well. Whatever.