Excellent performance! I lived in China and read the book of his private physician. The opera is the best contemporary picture painted with music!
@LaFantasia03274 күн бұрын
Why did she flat at "the book the book the book the book"? I heard her doll song and she did not have any problem reaching repetitive high notes.
@dongiovanni375921 күн бұрын
I enjoyed yesterday in Berlin this amazing Opera. This was my second time. This aria is just heart and breath taking! Love it!
@foreignparticle13204 ай бұрын
I saw Kim perform this in a staged concert version a dozen or so years ago. I'd never heard the score before then. This aria was incredible, and is one of the few things I remember vividly.
@EdwardsGrant6 ай бұрын
It's the greatest performance in all the history of opera, I think.
@khouloudtt12296 ай бұрын
Bro really believed that nixon and his wife were the good guys hahahahaha 🤡🤡🤡
@jrock27207 ай бұрын
I think I would watch this ducking below the seat in front of me, with just one eye peering over in utter trepidation.
@rons.96789 ай бұрын
Does anyone know the legend of The Emperor’s New Clothes? This is pure shit. I’m a composer myself who’s had his works performed internationally If you could bring back from the dead some masters of old, they’d wonder where our minds had gone
@Pvviolinist3 ай бұрын
😂
@user-on6db4rf4sАй бұрын
Where are your works lmaoooooo
@TomorrowWeLive Жыл бұрын
Opera/drama and poetry are the only arenas in which I actually prefer modernism to classicism.
@vocalisse Жыл бұрын
Sorry to say but Sumi Jo in 2002 in Paris aged with 51 years old is better : more colour, projection and beauty of sound.(with June Anderson as Pat Nixon)
@tonivaripati5951 Жыл бұрын
what can I say, this performance is over the top!
@carbonghadius1408 Жыл бұрын
What a banger! She deserved a standing ovation for that performance.
@garyhickman6897 Жыл бұрын
Will be seeing this live performance once again this weekend, this time at The Opera Bastille in Paris. The conductor is Gustavo Dudamel. Can't wait to experience this !!!
@kbhprinsesse Жыл бұрын
Amazing - a 20th century composition that actually sounds like music! My compliments!
@beatriceyoung161 Жыл бұрын
Kathleen Kim is superb in this role!!! Not only did her theatrical performance bring Chiang Ch'ing to life, but also, more importantly, her singing really embodied the neuroticism of Chiang Ch'ing. A flawless interpretation in my opinion.
@hsr.babY123 Жыл бұрын
One of my favorite arias brilliantly performed. A gem i come back to regularly for years. Thanks for posting this.
@stevielagan1948 Жыл бұрын
I hate her so much in this. All she needs is a moustache to twirl and we would have the operatic equivalent of Snidely Whiplash ("Look at Me!!!! I'm EVIL! I'm EVIL!!!"). What is up with that face in the end??? Jiang Qing was a complex woman who was party to or authority of monstrous things. But she deserves far better than this ogreish caricature Kim is disgusting us with here.
@monsieurw1 Жыл бұрын
Wow, it is just like Roman Catholic catechism class, as I experienced it...
@theoperatripleaxel5417 Жыл бұрын
Amazing actress... One of the greatest modern arias for high sopranos.
@500carl Жыл бұрын
The horror portrayed in the scene reflects the chaos, human disaster and misery being wreaked on the world by leftists extremists in all countries. They all speak according to their book.
@Thorscauldron Жыл бұрын
0:36 character in light colored suit being throttled by madam Mao. Is he a representation of french colonialism or Kai-Shek?
@billw1266 Жыл бұрын
A tour de force. 👏👏
@michaelcrouch8783 Жыл бұрын
Wonderfully beautiful and scary simultaneously
@igenyar Жыл бұрын
brilliant
@arielthequeen890 Жыл бұрын
This song is such a bitch to sing, y’all. Absolutely amazing, but so terribly tough.
@darkgalaxy5548 Жыл бұрын
Is it racist for someone of Korean ancestry to perform a Chinese role?
@itamarbar95802 жыл бұрын
2:37 here the aria starts derailing and exposing the coltural ;-) revolution for what it truly was.
@itamarbar95802 жыл бұрын
The most accurate dressing and look I've seen! Really similar to Chiang Qing in her later years. Moreover, Kathleen Kim parades the stage like a dictator, raging and "educating". She doesn't even try to hide her twisting of reality in the words "at the breast of history, I sucked and *pissed* ". One thing that I didn't like is that she didn't pronounce the word "Blind" like the words before it and after it, but that's nitpicking. Overall, this deserves to be the reference performance for years to come. Edit: In addition, this is one of the least racist representations of China in the whole of opera.
@barbarasmith60052 жыл бұрын
Fantastic performance.
@tiivc2 жыл бұрын
She seems nice.
@groovecanon2 жыл бұрын
It’s just so fucking dope. What a performance
@mostshenanigans2 жыл бұрын
I don't really understand what's happening in the video, but that wife of Mao is surely a loud one.
@renieldacudao14972 жыл бұрын
Why Gillian Anderson's Margaret Thatcher on the background? 😂 Kathleen Kim delivered this horrific and difficult aria like it's not hard!
@tipsy99473 жыл бұрын
I saw the original production when it came to Brooklyn, and when the curtains suddenly parted to show the gigantic portrait of Mao--dwarfing the ballet performers and the Nixons below them--it was such a genuinely eerie moment. And then the aria began...
@JamesMorgan-zp1ue3 жыл бұрын
Talk about a FORCE OF NATURE!! Just magnificent singing actress! OMG she's SO EXCELLENT!
@nancyvukovic2562 жыл бұрын
I can hardly believe those high notes are possible. And with such intensity!
@JimCvit3 жыл бұрын
I remember watching this on PBS when I was a kid. I was so intrigued. This was one of my fave scenes.
@heyya0693 жыл бұрын
The very best Madam Mao ever...I'm not sure I won't be able to guess the other sopranos who can take this role as superb as like her! You guys Just listen to her high notes at the finale parts! It's a kind of revolution.You can feel the Aura of Perfact matching with this Role.Speechless... 정말 최고의 장칭. 닉슨 인 차이나에서 장칭을 제대로 연기한 소프라노는 적어도 나에게는 캐슬린 선생님 한 분 뿐. 거의 접신에 가까운 캐릭터 해석력...
@annandune3 жыл бұрын
This is sumptuous music, beautifully written. Can't believe that White Stripes appear in the playlist to the left of this video.
@huangdp053 жыл бұрын
演义的不错。
@ssbraga3 жыл бұрын
Magnificent!! All the performance!!!
@markbryant77433 жыл бұрын
That look of horror on Pat Nixon's face at all the atrocities committed toward the end of the song. It's the perfect counterpoint to the violence, it really drives home the point.
@stephenlagan85693 жыл бұрын
Ugh. I just can't with this. All she needs is a Snidely Whiplash moustache to twirl. Jiang Qing didn't think she was evil... Ms. Kim's interpretation, however accomplished, reduces a very complex historical character to that of a typical telenovela or cartoon villain. Watch Trudy Ellen Craney in the original, so firm and resolute in her absolute belief in what she was doing which is so much more chilling and effective than what Ms. Kim is doing here (which just seems to be ''dripping evil''). My two cents, anyway! :-)
@mlebron203 жыл бұрын
John Adams secured his very high place in the world of music with this opera, and with this aria in particular. Just stunning.
@galenbrubaker56033 жыл бұрын
I’m never going to read the word book the same again 😂
@immatransl64393 жыл бұрын
Boo-ookkkkkkkk
@mrs.medeiros70903 жыл бұрын
I saw this, like, 10 years ago and I can still hear her singing the BoOoOOOOK! BoOoOk! BooOOOOkkkkk!!!! 😱. What a chilling performance, and a mastery vocal gymnastics. Absolutely breathtaking.
@monaiphone6363 жыл бұрын
This song is strangely addictive. Like most modern music I found it so bizarre at first but I just needed to revisit it. Now I can’t get it out of my head so I will have to start learning it…and this version will for sure be my template. Simply spectacular!
@gibran20133 жыл бұрын
me encanto el video xd
@EPlolz4 жыл бұрын
this is fucking badass
@UncleDoc734 жыл бұрын
I’m guessing part one never turned up anywhere?
@KimBakTarot4 жыл бұрын
She is such an actress with such firm technique and beautiful voice 🙇♀️ Bow ❤ People should watch more of this!!!!!! What an intense opera wow 👍👍
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Excellent performance! I lived in China and read the book of his private physician. The opera is the best contemporary picture painted with music!
Why did she flat at "the book the book the book the book"? I heard her doll song and she did not have any problem reaching repetitive high notes.
I enjoyed yesterday in Berlin this amazing Opera. This was my second time. This aria is just heart and breath taking! Love it!
I saw Kim perform this in a staged concert version a dozen or so years ago. I'd never heard the score before then. This aria was incredible, and is one of the few things I remember vividly.
It's the greatest performance in all the history of opera, I think.
Bro really believed that nixon and his wife were the good guys hahahahaha 🤡🤡🤡
I think I would watch this ducking below the seat in front of me, with just one eye peering over in utter trepidation.
Does anyone know the legend of The Emperor’s New Clothes? This is pure shit. I’m a composer myself who’s had his works performed internationally If you could bring back from the dead some masters of old, they’d wonder where our minds had gone
😂
Where are your works lmaoooooo
Opera/drama and poetry are the only arenas in which I actually prefer modernism to classicism.
Sorry to say but Sumi Jo in 2002 in Paris aged with 51 years old is better : more colour, projection and beauty of sound.(with June Anderson as Pat Nixon)
what can I say, this performance is over the top!
What a banger! She deserved a standing ovation for that performance.
Will be seeing this live performance once again this weekend, this time at The Opera Bastille in Paris. The conductor is Gustavo Dudamel. Can't wait to experience this !!!
Amazing - a 20th century composition that actually sounds like music! My compliments!
Kathleen Kim is superb in this role!!! Not only did her theatrical performance bring Chiang Ch'ing to life, but also, more importantly, her singing really embodied the neuroticism of Chiang Ch'ing. A flawless interpretation in my opinion.
One of my favorite arias brilliantly performed. A gem i come back to regularly for years. Thanks for posting this.
I hate her so much in this. All she needs is a moustache to twirl and we would have the operatic equivalent of Snidely Whiplash ("Look at Me!!!! I'm EVIL! I'm EVIL!!!"). What is up with that face in the end??? Jiang Qing was a complex woman who was party to or authority of monstrous things. But she deserves far better than this ogreish caricature Kim is disgusting us with here.
Wow, it is just like Roman Catholic catechism class, as I experienced it...
Amazing actress... One of the greatest modern arias for high sopranos.
The horror portrayed in the scene reflects the chaos, human disaster and misery being wreaked on the world by leftists extremists in all countries. They all speak according to their book.
0:36 character in light colored suit being throttled by madam Mao. Is he a representation of french colonialism or Kai-Shek?
A tour de force. 👏👏
Wonderfully beautiful and scary simultaneously
brilliant
This song is such a bitch to sing, y’all. Absolutely amazing, but so terribly tough.
Is it racist for someone of Korean ancestry to perform a Chinese role?
2:37 here the aria starts derailing and exposing the coltural ;-) revolution for what it truly was.
The most accurate dressing and look I've seen! Really similar to Chiang Qing in her later years. Moreover, Kathleen Kim parades the stage like a dictator, raging and "educating". She doesn't even try to hide her twisting of reality in the words "at the breast of history, I sucked and *pissed* ". One thing that I didn't like is that she didn't pronounce the word "Blind" like the words before it and after it, but that's nitpicking. Overall, this deserves to be the reference performance for years to come. Edit: In addition, this is one of the least racist representations of China in the whole of opera.
Fantastic performance.
She seems nice.
It’s just so fucking dope. What a performance
I don't really understand what's happening in the video, but that wife of Mao is surely a loud one.
Why Gillian Anderson's Margaret Thatcher on the background? 😂 Kathleen Kim delivered this horrific and difficult aria like it's not hard!
I saw the original production when it came to Brooklyn, and when the curtains suddenly parted to show the gigantic portrait of Mao--dwarfing the ballet performers and the Nixons below them--it was such a genuinely eerie moment. And then the aria began...
Talk about a FORCE OF NATURE!! Just magnificent singing actress! OMG she's SO EXCELLENT!
I can hardly believe those high notes are possible. And with such intensity!
I remember watching this on PBS when I was a kid. I was so intrigued. This was one of my fave scenes.
The very best Madam Mao ever...I'm not sure I won't be able to guess the other sopranos who can take this role as superb as like her! You guys Just listen to her high notes at the finale parts! It's a kind of revolution.You can feel the Aura of Perfact matching with this Role.Speechless... 정말 최고의 장칭. 닉슨 인 차이나에서 장칭을 제대로 연기한 소프라노는 적어도 나에게는 캐슬린 선생님 한 분 뿐. 거의 접신에 가까운 캐릭터 해석력...
This is sumptuous music, beautifully written. Can't believe that White Stripes appear in the playlist to the left of this video.
演义的不错。
Magnificent!! All the performance!!!
That look of horror on Pat Nixon's face at all the atrocities committed toward the end of the song. It's the perfect counterpoint to the violence, it really drives home the point.
Ugh. I just can't with this. All she needs is a Snidely Whiplash moustache to twirl. Jiang Qing didn't think she was evil... Ms. Kim's interpretation, however accomplished, reduces a very complex historical character to that of a typical telenovela or cartoon villain. Watch Trudy Ellen Craney in the original, so firm and resolute in her absolute belief in what she was doing which is so much more chilling and effective than what Ms. Kim is doing here (which just seems to be ''dripping evil''). My two cents, anyway! :-)
John Adams secured his very high place in the world of music with this opera, and with this aria in particular. Just stunning.
I’m never going to read the word book the same again 😂
Boo-ookkkkkkkk
I saw this, like, 10 years ago and I can still hear her singing the BoOoOOOOK! BoOoOk! BooOOOOkkkkk!!!! 😱. What a chilling performance, and a mastery vocal gymnastics. Absolutely breathtaking.
This song is strangely addictive. Like most modern music I found it so bizarre at first but I just needed to revisit it. Now I can’t get it out of my head so I will have to start learning it…and this version will for sure be my template. Simply spectacular!
me encanto el video xd
this is fucking badass
I’m guessing part one never turned up anywhere?
She is such an actress with such firm technique and beautiful voice 🙇♀️ Bow ❤ People should watch more of this!!!!!! What an intense opera wow 👍👍