Dame Kiri & Friends - The Gala Concert

A spectacular gala concert from our archives presented by the Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation in 2006.

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa performs with her long-time friend and colleague, Frederica von Stade, and two young up-and-coming singers, Anna Leese and Seung Wook Seong. Joining them are the Chapman Tripp Opera Chorus and New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by James Judd.

The programme includes popular arias and duets from operas by Mozart, Offenbach, Dvorak, Puccini, Korngold and Verdi, songs from Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été and Canteloube’s Songs of the Auvergne along with well-known opera choruses. There's an interval interview with special guest Frederica von Stade.

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American mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade talks to Charlotte Wilson about her international career and long-time friendship with Dame Kiri, in an interview recorded in 2006.

Programme

MOZART: Overture, Don Giovanni

MOZART: Mi tradi quell' alma ingrata, from Don Giovanni

MOZART: Corriamo, fuggiamo, from Idomeneo

MOZART: Parto, parto, from La Clemenza di Tito

MOZART: Ah guarda sorella, from Cosi fan tutte

DVORAK: Song to the Moon, from Rusalka

PUCCINI: Musetta's Waltz song, from La Boheme

BERLIOZ: Hungarian March, from The Damnation of Faust

BERLIOZ: Villanelle, from Les Nuits d'été

BERLIOZ: Le Spectre de la Rose, from Les Nuits d'été

VERDI: Va pensiero, from Nabucco

VERDI: O Carlo, ascolta, from Don Carlos

VERDI: Ave Maria, from Otello

VERDI: Credo in un Dio crudel, from Otello

KORNGOLD: Seahawk

KORNGOLD: Marietta's Song, from Die tote Stadt

OFFENBACH: Ah! Que j'aime les militaires, from The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein

OFFENBACH: Ah! quel diner je viens de faire, from La Perichole

CANTELOUBE: L'aïo dè rotso; Lou Boussu; Baïlèro; Tè l'co, tè!; La Delaïssado; Lou Coucut, from Songs of the Auvergne

MASCAGNI: Easter Hymn, from Cavalleria Rusticana

ROSSINI: Cat Duet

 

Recorded 11 February 2006, Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ Concert

Producer: David McCaw

Presenter: Christine Argyle

Engineer: Graham Kennedy