The Very Best Of (Kiri Te Kanawa album)

Infobox Album |
Name = The Very Best Of
Type = Album
Artist = Kiri Te Kanawa


Released = 23 September 2003
Recorded = ???
Genre =
Length =
Label = EMI
Producer =
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Last album = "Kiri - The Best Of"
(2001)
This album = "The Very Best Of"
(2003)
Next album = "Kiri Sings Karl" (2006)

The Very Best Of is a greatest hits album released by New Zealand opera diva, Kiri Te Kanawa in 2003.

Track listing

Disc one

#"Signore, ascolta" - Puccini (Turandot)
#"Ecco: respiro appena. Io son l’umile ancella" - Cilea (Adriana Lecouvreur)
#"La mamma morta" - Giordano (Andrea Chénier)
#"Attendo, attendo... Addio del passato - Verdi (La Traviata)
#"Je marche sur tous les chemins... Obéissons quand leur voix appelle - Massenet (Manon)
#"Depuis le jour" - Charpentier (Louise)
#"Ella a fui, la tourterelle!" - Offenbach (Les Contes d'Hoffmann)
#"Me voilà seule... Comme autrefois" - Bizet (Les Pechêurs de perles)
#"Ach, ich fühl’s" - Mozart (Die Zauberflöte)
#"Dich, teure Halle" - Wagner (Tannhäuser)
#"Wie nahte mir der Schlummer... Leise, leise, fromme Weise!" - Weber (Der Freischütz)
#"Da geht er hin, der aufgeblas'ne schlechte Kerl" - Strauss (Der Rosenkavalier)
#"Glück, das mir verblieb" - Korngold (Die tote Stadt)
#"La Flûte enchantée" - Ravel (Shéhérazade)
#"L'invitation au voyage" - Duparc
#"Le Manoir de Rosemonde" - Duparc

Disc two

#"Somebody Loves Me" from George White's Scandals of 1924 (Gershwin)
#"Love Is Here to Stay" from The Goldwyn Follies
#"Embraceable You" from Girl Crazy
#"Summertime" from Porgy and Bess
#"Long Ago and Far Away" from Cover Girl (Kern)
#"A Fine Romance" from Swing Time
#"The Song is You" from Music in the Air
#"Let's Face The Music and Dance" from Follow the Fleet (Berlin)
#"What'll I Do?" (Berlin)
#"They Say it's Wonderful" from Annie Get Your Gun (Berlin)
#"I've Got You Under My Skin" from Born to Dance (Cole Porter)
#"Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" from Seven Lively Arts
#"True Love" from High Society
#"I'll Be Home for Christmas" (Kent)
#"Silent Night" (Gruber)
#"Come To The Fair" - (Martin)
#"The Last Rose of Summer" (Irish folksong)
#"The Keel Row" (Scottish folksong)
#"Comin' thro' the Rye" (Scottish folksong)
#"Greensleeves" (English folksong)
#"Danny Boy" (Irish folksong)
#"Hoki Hoki Tonu Mai" (Maori Song)
#"Po Ata Rau (Now Is the Hour) (Maori Song)
#"The World You're Coming Into" - Paul McCartney & Carl Davis