Kiri Te Kanawa: If She Stopped Singing She Would Die | Parkinson on BBC
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Kiri Te Kanawa came to opera late, only catching the bug after arriving in London and seeing Covent Garden for the first time. She thought it was the pinnacle, the highest mountain you could climb. She has been climbing it ever since. In this conversation with Michael Parkinson, she talks about Covent Garden's management leaving singers to fend for themselves, contrasting it with the Met in New York where dedicated staff look after performers at every turn. She talks about the physical cost of opera, about singers who lock their knees on stage and end up needing replacements, and about falling repeatedly during Tosca and doing serious damage to her back. She talks about singing next to Pavarotti and being completely taken over by the sound. She also talks about her divorce, about a marriage that ended because her husband wanted her to stop singing and she could not. She still feels that if she stopped, she would die. Legendary talk show host Sir Michael Parkinson's official YouTube
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