{"id":8876,"date":"2011-10-07T06:30:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T17:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=8876"},"modified":"2011-10-08T10:04:26","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T21:04:26","slug":"placido-domingo-and-kathleen-jenkins-in-christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/10\/07\/placido-domingo-and-kathleen-jenkins-in-christchurch\/","title":{"rendered":"Placido Domingo and Katherine Jenkins in Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I got to go and hear Placido Domingo and Katherine Jenkins in concert with the New Zealand National Youth Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Kohn&#8212;and it was ah-maz-ing! Words really can&#8217;t express the wonderfulness of the evening&#8212;the colour, the music, the voices&#8212;but I might try a little later in the day! \ud83d\ude42 For the moment though, I&#8217;m still in wow mode!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">2 pm: OK, back again, although I plan to keep it pretty simple. But last night&#8217;s event worked for me on a great many levels:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000080;\">firstly, even at (almost) 70, Placido Domingo still has a great voice. And as was so rightly mentioned in the programme, his has been one of the defining voices of world opera for 50 years. So what a tremendous privilege to be able to hear a singer of such calibre and gravitas live.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000080;\">I loved the generoisty with which he and Katherine Jenkins shared the stage with each other and the orchestra. Ms Jenkins has a very beautiful voice&#8212;and an impressive array of beautiful and colourful dresses!&#8212;but what really shone through was her personality and grace.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000080;\">I can only imagine what a thrill it must have been for the National Youth Orchestra to have the opportunity to work, not just with singers like Placido Domingo and Katherine Jenkins, but with a conductor of the calibre of Eugene Kohn. Although the young musicians&#8217; performance was not flawless, overall I thought they played tremendously well and did themselves and their country proud&#8212;and several of their orchestral features were highlights for me.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Most of all it was just the event. The auditorium&#8212;a sports stadium, but then this is post-earthquake Christchurch&#8212;was full to its 8000-seat capacity and everyone was there to celebrate and enjoy. And judging by the smiles on every face as we finally left (after a prolonged encore!) no one went away disappointed.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">To celebrate what? Well, after the year we&#8217;ve had, I would simply have to say: &#8216;being here.&#8217; And listening to last night&#8217;s combination of voice and music made me feel that was more than worthwhile. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Also, it was a benefit concert&#8212;with over $300,000 raised to rebuild the Court Theatre and for the Canterbury Symphony Orchestra. Good news all round&#8212;and a huge thank you to everyone involved in achieving that.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I got to go and hear Placido Domingo and Katherine Jenkins in concert with the New Zealand National Youth Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Kohn&#8212;and it was ah-maz-ing! Words really can&#8217;t express the wonderfulness of the evening&#8212;the colour, the music, the voices&#8212;but I might try a little later in the day! \ud83d\ude42 For the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8876"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8907,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8876\/revisions\/8907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}