context is key: kiri
The furore in New Zealand over Dame Kiri te Kanawa‘s apparent criticism of Kiwi popera divette Hayley Westenra may now be on a downward slope after peaking earlier this weekend.
On Saturday night Dame Kiri phoned in to a radio talk show to try to clarify her remarks. Perhaps the most interesting detail is te Kanawa’s insistence that she used the word “fake” as term of art and not a value judgment about the younger singer. Meanwhile Westenra refuses to comment, so it looks like the catfight is a non-starter.
Yeah, I thought that statement about Kiri being know to only a “small cognoscenti” was odd, too, since she was all over PBS for a while. But it’s nice to know I’m a cogniscento (singular of cogniscenti?)
Hayley Westenra? World renowned? I may lead a sheltered life, but I have never heard of her until this blogette. And usually one gets to hear of these people whether we like it or not.
Grimgerde – in this case ignorance is bliss!
Hm. As a Kiwi Kiri’s comments annoy me.
I don’t know why she performed on Dancing with the Stars last night on a trashy two-bit stage, singing a medley of musical numbers. It was terrible.
And she used a microphone.
Ha!
I presume she had a microphone to be heard by the audience at home rather than as a crutch to not being able to project over the footlights or ice rink, or whatever she was singing on.
Katherine Jenkins’s PR machine has hit back by saying
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/2008/02/28/opera-stars-rubbish-katherine-jibes-91466-20533526/