Did somebody say "Boo?"
A presence from beyond the grave walked out on a recital by Dame Kiri te Kanawa on Wednesday night in Edinburgh. Following one of her songs the Kiwi diva turned to the audience and asked, “Did you hear the footsteps during the last piece? They were behind me. I wanted to look round. You have a ghost.”
A spokesman for the theater, presumably referring to this incident, remarked, “You could tell she was really freaked out.” The ghost was unavailable for comment. Opera Star Spooked by Ghost
she probably just forgot the words again.
Yeah, and she probably had the music right in front of her!
Truth is this Dame ain’t the sharpest knife in the drawer, if you get my drift. Rumor has it that at Washington Opera if you tried to follow Kiri’s performance of “Vanessa” with the printed score, you’d see lots of interesting “variations” on her part.