Kiri Te Kanawa: I Could Have Danced All Night

Conductor:

John Hopkins, Stephen Barlow

Portrait Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's story contains all the best elements of an operatic fairy tale. Born into a family with Maori roots, Kiri Te Kanawa rose to become one of the world's most famous opera stars. In this exciting portrait, Kiri Te Kanawa recounts her life and career in a series of revealing, in-depth interviews. The documentary shows Kiri Te Kanawa recording Strauss's Four Last Songs with Sir Georg Solti and the Vienna Philharmonic, singing in a small English country church in the presence of the Prince of Wales, and rehearsing and performing Arabella and Capriccio. Concert In early 1990, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa made a triumphant return to her native New Zealand, culminating in an open-air concert in Wellington, where an audience of over 75,000 enjoyed music from Puccini to Gershwin. A little over a year later, she delighted her guests at the Old Royal Naval College Chapel in Greenwich, London, designed by Christopher Wren, with a program of Handel and Mozart. Highlights of these two performances include "Tu che di gel sei cinta" from Puccini's Turandot, "O mio babbino caro" from Gianni Schicchi, Mozart's "Exsultate, jubilate," "I Could Have Danced All Night" from the musical My Fair Lady, and many others.