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List Price: $16.98 | | Label: EMI Classics
Salesrank: 155039
Released: May 10, 2005 |
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Dame Kiri and Friends: The Gala Concert Track Listing:
1. Tarakihi
2. Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492: Porgi Amor
3. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Soave sia il vento
4. Morgen ('Und morgen wird die Sonne wieder scheinen'), song for voice & piano (or orchestra), Op. 27/4 (TrV 170/4)
5. Carmen, opera: Habanera
6. Carmen, opera: Flower Song
7. I Vespri siciliani, opera (Les vêpres siciliennes): Mercè diletti amiche
8. Louise, opera: Depuis le jour
9. Lakmé, opera: Dôme épais, le jasmin
10. Tosca, opera: Vissi d'Arte
11. Turandot, opera: Nessun dorma
12. Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: Un bel dì vedremo
13. La Rondine (The Swallow), opera: Chi il bel sogno di Doretta
14. Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492: Che soave zefiretto
15. Adriana Lecouvreur, opera: Io son l'umile ancella
16. La bohème, opera: O soave fanciulla
17. Candide, operetta in 2 acts (original version, withdrawn): Make Your Garden Grow
18. Die Fledermaus (The Bat), operetta (RV 503): Champagne Chorus
19. May It Be (for the film Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring)
20. Hine e Hine (Maori Lullaby)
Dame Kiri and Friends: The Gala Concert Reviews:
Very good 
2008-02-10 - Well, I agree with the previous reviewer that her voice is certainly not at its peak in this DVD. However considering her age she sounds fabulous!
The Farewell CD 
2006-02-21 - This is probably Dame Kiri's last major release CD, and if it isn't it should be. As demonstrated on this CD her voice is now tired and unemotive. Her radiant tone is now wobbily and unsteady, and she sounds over-miked and uninvolved. It was wise that she had the back-up of several other singers, younger and in more vocal prime, on her programme.
Dame Kiri has announced her retirement from staged opera (www.kiritekanawa.org). Like all great singers before her, there does come a time when ones powers are waning and you must stop. I think this CD is sad, a reminder of what things once were but are no longer.
