Thursday, August 13, 2020

Celebrating Kathleen Battle's 72nd Birthday With MET Streams

Kathleen Battle (center) is featured in the 1982 Metropolitan Opera production of Mozart's Così fan tutte with Maria Ewing (left) as Dorabella and Kiri Te Kanawa (right) as Fiordiligi (Photo: Winnie Klotz).

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Metropolitan Opera has been deep-diving into its video broadcast troves to stream the content out to users in hopes of fundraising and continued engagement. In honor of Kathleen Battle's birthday today (see our previous tribute here), we highlight the recently aired performance of L'Elisir d'Amore featuring her performance alongside Luciano Pavarotti (view here) and on August 22 they will present Il Barbiere di Siviglia with fellow artists Rockwell Blake and Leo Nucci (view here). Read the company's feature "Practically Perfect," written by photo editor Jonathan Tichler, on Ms. Battle here. More of the soprano's MET production photos after the jump.

Kathleen Battle with Luciano Pavarotti in L'Elisir d'Amore (Photo: Robert Cahen).


Sophie/Der Rosenkavalier

Rosina/Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Pamina/Die Zauberflöte

Kathleen Battle in Recital

Zdenka/Arabella

Pamina/Die Zauberflöte

Susanna/Le Nozze di Figaro

Cleopatra/Giulio Cesare

Zerbinetta/Ariadne auf Naxos

Rosina/Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Adina/L'Elisir d'Amore

Cleopatra/Giulio Cesare

Pamina/Die Zauberflöte

Cleopatra/Giulio Cesare

Susanna/Le Nozze di Figaro

Sheperd/Tannhäuser