Dame Kiri Te Kanawa sings "Summertime" - "Porgy and Bess" video free download

debb beck

why is song so cool;!

brezza CP

splendido soprano

NataliaRoschinaJapan

She doesn't understand what the song is about. Having a good voice isn't enough. But it's not her fault she doesn't understand the song, so can't really blame her. Thanks for the video.

DynastyQg9

Kathleen battle,runs circles around her...

axinos55

This divine voice compared only with Maria Kalas and Leontyne Price.

newhere66

every,sort of, unconventional composition Dame KTK makes like her signature one! Diva among Divas!

ktw0629

She's good, but Leontyne Price is phenomenal!

windstorm1000

Ok, this is one of the few broadway shows where opera singers CAN stroll down the Great White Way--that 's because P and B needs strong non-miked voices and IS an opera-with Br'way overtones. But everyb lady and their mother thinks they can do Summertime--its become almost a bad cliche in second rate nightclubs--and unfortunately Carnegie Hall--Kiri is not going low brow enough for this song---she's wayyy too far south, know what I mean??? Doing strauss when she should be in Charlston.

theblueangel28

@katesinger well, except that the "anyone" who decided to make it contemporary was..you know..the composer himself i like it much better better as an aria too, but Gershwin gave it to Billie Holiday for a reason

LEOPARDTWO

World class.

an87b43

I've listened to all of those you have mentioned, and I love the song sung many ways -- but this is the one I choose for my playlist. I thihk it is perfectly "Gershwin" and Te Kanawa's voice perfectly suited for the piece.

sea1song

@flaze3 I am not so sure I would call this version superior. I can't imagine it geting any better than the versions by Leontyne Price and Kathleen Battle.

sea1song

@flaze3 I am not so sure I would call this version superior. I really don't think it gets better than Leontyne Price or Kathleen Battle.

musikenergy

@maggiepower The aria is sung twice in two different keys. The key she's singing it in is the same key Bess sings it in the opera.

maggiepower

Great, but I wish she'd done it in the original key.

Lily White PDX

Dude, don't diss Gershwin. Feel free to prefer the jazzy version, but don't diss the original, it is one of the most persevering songs of the last 100 years for a reason.

echo branwen

Lovely. I love it preformed both this way and the "Ella Fitzgerald way" for different reasons-they're each wonderful in their own right. However, i also love Anna Moffo's version of this song.

flaze3

Yeah, I'm aware of that, but it's pedantic to think that because something was composed for some particular setting, there can be no superior interpretation. In my opinion, the blues/jazz covers capture the mood of the words in a way that the high-falluted classical version doesn't. Not that the original classic version is not commendable in other ways! I was merely saying that I think it's hard to sing this aria/song classically and evoke all the emotional depth that a bluesy version does.

katesinger

just..summertime is originally from the opera "porgy and bess" therefore it is classical and supposed to be performed operatically. it was around long before anyone decided to make it contemporary!!

flaze3

ahhh what?

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