Browse: DVD Video, Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano)
Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Kiri Te Kanawa (Manon Lescaut), Plácido Domingo (Des Grieux), Thomas Allen (Lescaut), Forbes Robinson (Geronte), Robin Leggate (Edmondo), Anna Cooper (Madrigal Singer)
The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Giuseppe Sinopoli
an ideal cast of principals and passionate, idiomatic conducting...the glorious singing of Placido Domingo as Des Grieux comes over heroically, and Kiri te Kanawa as Manon is both girlish and... — More…
Strauss, J, II: Die Fledermaus
Kiri Te Kanawa, Hermann Prey, Benjamin Luxon, Hildegard Heichele (guest appearances by Hinge & Bracket, Charles Aznavour, Merle Park & Wayne Eagling)
Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Placido Domingo
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Hermann Prey (Figaro), Mirella Freni (Susanna), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Count), Kiri Te Kanawa (Countess), Maria Ewing (Cherubino), Paolo Montarsolo (Bartolo), Heather Begg (Marcellina), John van Kesteren (Basilio), Willy Caron (Curzio), Hans Krämer (Antonio), Janet Perry (Barbarina)
Wiener...
a visual treat, but having some solos delivered as interior monologues is distracting — More…
Offer, The Mozart Glyndebourne Collection
Helena Dose (Fiordiligi), Sylvia Lindenstrand (Dorabella), Daniele Perriers (Despina), Anson Austin (Ferrando), Thomas Allen (Guglielmo), Frantz Petri (Don Alfonso), Benjamin Luxon (Don Giovanni), Stafford Dean (Leporello), Horiana Branisteanu (Donna Anna), Rachel Yakar (Donna Elvira), Leo Goeke (Don...
Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro captures Peter Hall’s delightful and wonderfully vivid production. Cast from strength, it is presided over with great sympathy by conductor John Pritchard — More…
Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
Kiri Te Kanawa (Die Marschallin), Anne Howells (Oktavian), Barbara Bonney (Sophie), Aage Haugland (Ochs), Jonathan Summers (Faninal), Robert Tear (Valzacchi), Cynthia Buchan (Annina), Dennis O'Neill (Italian Singer), Phyllis Cannan (Marianne Leitmetzerin), Roderick Earle (Polizeikommissar), Kim Begley...
Bernstein: The Making of West Side Story
Kiri Te Kanawa (Maria), José Carreras (Tony), Tatiana Troyanos (Anita), Kurt Ollmann (Riff)
Directed by Christopher Swann
Christopher Swann's 1985 film of the sessions for a new recording of West Side Story repays repeated viewing. Bernstein, conducting his musical for the first time, alternates between thunderclouds... — More…
Verdi: Otello
Plácido Domingo (Otello), Kiri Te Kanawa (Desdemona), Sergei Leiferkus (Iago), Robin Leggate (Cassio), Ramon Remedios (Rodrigo), Mark Beesley (Lodovico), Roderick Earle (Montano), Claire Powell (Emilia)
The Royal Opera & The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Georg Solti
Sergei Leiferkus's dark Russian tone… suits Iago down to the ground. Kiri Te Kanawa's limpid tone makes her a near-ideal Desdemona… Plácido Domingo… is noble and heroic. — More…
Offer, Plácido Domingo - My Greatest Roles Volume 2 (Verdi)
Plácido Domingo (Ernani), Mirella Freni (Elvira), Renato Bruson (Carlo), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Silva), Gianfranco Manganotti (Riccardo), Alfredo Giacomotti (Iago), Jolanda Michieli (Giovanna), Plácido Domingo (Otello), Kiri Te Kanawa (Desdemona), Sergei Leiferkus (Iago), Robin Leggate (Cassio), Ramon...
Domingo's much-admired Otello is captured here around its peak (1992). The rare La Scala Ernani is a strong souvenir, but the Trovatore under Karajan with a top-notch cast is even more special. — More…
Verdi: Otello
Kiri Te Kanawa, Piero Cappuccilli & Vladimir Atlantov
Orchestra & Choir of Arena di Verona, Zoltan Pesko
The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala
Eva Marton, Kiri Te Kanawa, James McCracken, Ruggero Raimondi, Joan Sutherland, Catherine Malfitano, Alfredo Kraus, Nicolai Gedda, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Plácido Domingo, Mirella Freni, Jose Carreras, Montserrat Caballé, Ileana Cotrubas, Linda Gelinas, Ricardo Costa, Renato Bruson, Grace Bumbry, Katia...