Kiri was already a famous opera singer at this point. But this performance made her famous around the world and put her on par with Pavarotti and Domingo.

I love the faces she makes while she is singing like saying: I know exactly what I'm doing and I'm enjoying it.

This performance catapulted Kiri Te Kanawa an international superstar of the classical music world. She deserves.

@victoriassazonova

9 ай бұрын

she was a superstar already in that time.

@kerry3679

7 ай бұрын

Agreed--that's why they had her.@@victoriassazonova

@clackmanoregon6947

5 ай бұрын

“The live broadcast made Te Kanawa a household name.” Royal Opera House Magazine, January 2024.

@markelijio6012

2 ай бұрын

@@kerry3679 Tell it like it is!

I remember watching this as a 6 year old and how proud us New Zealand people were to see one of our very own.

I watched this as a 16 year old in Trinidad 🇹🇹 West Indies and fell in love with Dame Kiri instantly. What a consummate performer, what a diva in the right sense of the word. Fabulous.

@heavenfxeyesforsale

4 ай бұрын

u sound fabulouz!

Like a brightly plumed songbird. Brava!

Amazzzing Amazzzing...OMG ...Dame Kiri Te Kanawa ...walks through... this aria like its a daily occurrence..... effortlessly.

I am so proud to be a New Zealander🇳🇿 xoxoxo ❤❤❤❤❤❤

I never forgot this and loved Dame Kiri ever since especially loved her clothes

@forestgreenorgangeek3473

7 жыл бұрын

ThePastorale She's gorgeous!

Have loved Dame Kiri Te Kanawa since I was 16 and I will be 70 in two months time and I still love he.

@mckavitt13

4 жыл бұрын

John Davy you are abit ahead of me. I’ve loved her since I was 20 & am now 70 & also still love her. Isn’t she lovely? She really establishes the royal tone.

Kiri Te Kanawa is certainly in my top 5 of great sopranos in the past 60 years. She is so versatile even now ie.2016. :)

@baritonebynight

5 жыл бұрын

Ironically, in late 2016 is when she quietly retired from singing. She is still teaching and every once in a while when teaching she will sing a note or two....and the voice is still very much there.

@charlesrhodes1358

2 жыл бұрын

Did you hear her sing on “ Downton Abbey? Not so good!

Dame Kiri is sublime

My favourite of all voices. Beautiful beyond imagining.

I was reading the book Once were Warriors and I had to search this up.. I've never heard of Kiri but I'm glad I do now.. she's a brilliant opera singer

Long live the QUEEN of the sopranos!

I salute her ! Islander represent right there

She is perfection!

In 99, I used to wake up in the morning preparing for work @ Kloof Mine at the sounds of this piece by Kiri Te Kanawa-set as alarm on my Technics Hifi.....Kwaks.......

One of the all time greats, respect to a fine lady....

@forestgreenorgangeek3473

7 жыл бұрын

Edgar Alan YEAAAAAH!

Such a wonderful soprano.

No microphone Wow So good😇

Amazing!!!!

How well I remember that day!

This is my main memory of that service. The voice. And the crooked necks.

I remember watching this ITV as a child, & the picture froze, partway through! This would never happen today, with modern media technology.......

She sung wonderful!

I remember this. We could no listen to any of the music in South Africa because of sanctions, so when Kirk sung they had to put on a recorded voice. Same with all the hymns.

Stunning

Who the hell would down-vote this sublime performance? Not liking the dress is no excuse 😉

@markelijio6012

4 ай бұрын

Making the dress is such an healthy combination. Norma Moriceau is responsible for the costumes during the 1981-1982 season.

sublime moment in history

@alfymiami

6 жыл бұрын

theblueangel28, What is the historic importance of that wedding?

@alfymiami

5 жыл бұрын

@Simon Brenden, and what is the historical importance of Prince Charles?

@Colourednexotic

5 жыл бұрын

Alfmedina it was the first time a black Pacific Islander was invited to perform a solo at a British royal wedding! So yes I am a very proud black islander !

@ngatihine6072

2 жыл бұрын

@@Colourednexotic she's not black. And she hardly acknowledges her maori heritage. Polynesian aren't black.

@Colourednexotic

2 жыл бұрын

@@ngatihine6072 seriously come on black comes in all shades u idi

Amazing 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Such glorious music …who could guess that all this happiness would end so ingloriously…

One of the greatest opera singers of all time. I grew up with her beautiful singing.

Dame Te Kanawa was already a opera stella

Most beautiful of Handel's arias!❤️🙏❤️🛐🛐🛐

@flogreer1627

2 жыл бұрын

In my opinion!

John Wallace - so wonderful! All the best!

Her voice and presence stand out like a bright seraph

Came here after watching Pretty Yende singing Sacred Fire for the coronation. Another sublime voice and sublime aria. Utterly spellbinding.

*can't believe she's not using a microphone* !!

@Yves_Ka

5 ай бұрын

opera singers never use microphones to sing classical music

@iainclark5964

3 ай бұрын

for the same reason Church choirs don't use mics

Isn't she a great singer ?

@forestgreenorgangeek3473

7 жыл бұрын

Oscar Meijer YEAAAAAH! my favorite along with the birthday girl Renee Fleming. 2/14/17 Yeaaah, Renee and Kiri!

absolutely stunning , too bad the wedding didn t pan out as well as the aria !

@forestgreenorgangeek3473

7 жыл бұрын

Tom Kelly I agree. Glad Will and Kate are so happy, unlike Charles and Di. Poor Di didn't deserve such mistreatment. But I digress. Kiri and Renee are the best.

This live version compared to the one at Prince Harry's wedding....the difference is clear, and yet this was 1981. Dame Kiri controls herself but Elin at Prince Harry's wedding was probably very very nervous but then again Dame Kiri at this time had already sung on most of the worlds Opera stages hence the amount of control.

@JV-yd4qg

6 жыл бұрын

Noe' Kris I heard Prince Charles were responsible for some of the music act like the kingdom choir & possibly the bridal walk song for Meghan.😅 a bit squeaky but Prince Charles were a patron for music and she is a welsh singer, so maybe 1 of the reason he chose her.😅

Love ❤️

Kiri, sing happy birthday to Renee Fleming, today's her birthday.

I sing. I've sung some opera. This is brilliant.

That would be added to my new opera of singing Zeneckoj Family Member Names.

crazy clothes!!

@forestgreenorgangeek3473

7 жыл бұрын

gertrude aucoin didn't notice...I'm so spellbound by her voice I had no idea whether she was wearing crazy clothes or church choir vestments (surplice etc.) :)

@forestgreenorgangeek3473

7 жыл бұрын

p.s. I love the names of the vestments... ruff, surplice, etc. I was in a choir briefly but got tired of going "wheeze...gasp..." Playing the organ is more my speed than...wheeze...gasp...singing.

@wandaborowy9400

5 жыл бұрын

She was worried about her hat falling off her head.

@starrama7711

4 жыл бұрын

big bird out stalkin LOL F***ED

@markelijio6012

4 ай бұрын

With this in mind, filmmaker Gillian Armstrong and her collaborators were DP Russell Boyd, film editor Nicholas Beauman, production designer Luciana Arrighi and costume designer Norma Moriceau who put it all together to make it more beautiful. Especially they made an numerous combination for Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and others too.

What a magnificent voice Kiri had in the right repertoire. This aria, however, taxes her in the extreme and while she manages to conquer most of it, the limitations are obvious in numerous instances of grabbed breaths and un-Handelian phrasing.

@mentak2593

4 ай бұрын

lol, you had your hearing evaluated or is it just pretentiousness?

Cool hat

@markelijio6012

Ай бұрын

According to Ellen Mirojnick, the Emmy winning and Oscar nominated costume designer who gave such wonderful praise about cool hat back in the fall of 1981 and even an lovely dress which was designed by Norma Moriceau with such glorious, happiness, spirit, triumph and joy.

I could never sing with that collar around my neck. That said, I love her and love that her favorite male singer was Elvis.

kiRI TE KENAWA ONLY ONE

BRAVA...BRAVİSSİMA...MY GREAT SOPRANO....B R A V A A A A.....

Sadly, this was truly all pomp & circumstance. But who were we to know? 😢

Great job. Great hat. Not a great dress.

@markelijio6012

2 ай бұрын

"Yes, I Understand" - Patsy Cline (1957).

Shame about Tom Flemings commentary right over the introductory bars and nearly crashing into the vocal.

Kiri is a great soprano, but who chose that weird dress?

@margaretross9150

5 жыл бұрын

I like it. Remember, this was the '80s.

@davidallen508

2 жыл бұрын

@@margaretross9150 , I well remember the 80’s and NEVER saw anyone wear such a weird outfit ; every fellow Kiwi I spoke to at the time really hated it and said it spoiled the whole occasion for them.I still agree.Bad taste all round.

@markelijio6012

4 ай бұрын

I love that wonderful dress, it was designed by Norma Moriceau of the Mad Max and Jack Ryan as well as White Sands fame.

She was highly criticized by her apparel on that day.

@markelijio6012

2 ай бұрын

I believe in you, David. I really do. But Dame Kiri Te Kanawa should wear a few wedding dresses on many wonderful occasions all around. And what the world says, "It's time to change your attitude. It's time to change your behavior. It's time to change your wardrobe. It's time to reach into new heights and achieve yourself."

Beautiful voice. Beautiful song. But that outfit. Oh the 80s fashion disaster!!

@markelijio6012

4 ай бұрын

You wanna know something? That outfit was very lovely by designer Norma Moriceau. By September 1994, most fashion magazines such as Bazaar and Glamour were captured their taste and interest in today's world.

After all these years I still marvel at who was it who talked Dame Kiri into wearing this hideous frock and this ridiculous hat. :-)

@MauriceRivers415

2 жыл бұрын

It was the 80's. 😎

Beautiful voice.Ridiculous dress.

@markelijio6012

4 ай бұрын

The dress isn't that bad - if that's the case. Get a wedding gown!

I can’t quite make out the lyrics. Nice hat but it won’t keep the rain off for long. She should get an umbrella or anorak. Handel used to live just down the road from my house in London - quite a few years ago. He never made the Top Twenty though. Not like The Birdy Song. That was class.

Sloppy colaratura.