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“AN OPERA-QUEEN” \u2013 by Des Kelly<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Another “Star of a Showbiz name” de Niese, so well-known around the World,and proudly Sri Lankan, is ubdoubtedly Danielle de Niese, our “Opera-Queen” of the moment, touring the globe<\/span><\/p>\n

very successfully, even as I write this.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you, KeithBennett for sending in this amazing story to be published on e’Lanka.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Desmond-Kelly\"<\/p>\n

\u00a0Desmond Kelly.<\/span>
\n(Editor-in-Chief)\u00a0 e’Lanka.<\/span><\/p>\n

Family time for Danielle<\/span><\/h2>\n

On holiday here, the renowned opera singer talks to Namali Premawardhana about balancing her many roles on stage and off<\/span><\/p>\n

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A shining star: Danielle in \u201cA Wonderful Life\u2019 (pic by Genevive Girling)<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:<\/span><\/strong>Sundaytimes<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Church-goers at St. Mary\u2019s Church, Bambalapitiya received a special treat at the Christmas Eve midnight mass when Australian-American lyric soprano of Sri Lankan heritage, Danielle de Niese, joined the choir for a very special service. Dani, as she is fondly known by her friends and family, began her Christmas holiday in Sri Lanka with renditions of \u2018Once in Royal David\u2019s City\u2019, \u2018O Holy Night\u2019 and \u2018Child of Bethlehem\u2019 among other Christmas classics.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The holiday itself, she says, is not simply about sharing the landscape of Sri Lanka with her children, but also sharing the people. \u201cI remember when I first came to Sri Lanka, I felt \u2013 even in the smallest interactions \u2013 that there were parts of the people that were very much part of myself. And I thought to myself \u201cOh, that\u2019s why we are the way we are!\u2019\u201d Danielle considers it inevitable that her children will also experience this connection to Sri Lanka and hopes to nurture that in them through these family visits.<\/span><\/p>\n

Born in Australia, Danielle lived most of her life in the United States, spent extended time studying languages in Europe and now makes a home with her husband and two children in the UK. \u201cI feel like a dual or triple citizen of the world,\u201d she enthuses. \u201cIt\u2019s great to have an affinity with many different cultures, and I think that\u2019s what my children will have as well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Family seems to be the topic Danielle keeps returning to, as the Sunday Times catches up with the star late morning on Christmas Eve at \u2018Hunter\u2019s End\u2019, the home of Mano Chanmugam and Neomal de Alwis. Here she makes her Colombo base with her family including her parents.<\/span><\/p>\n

Danielle\u2019s mother Beverly and father Chris\u00a0 played a key role in her training and in her ascent to childhood stardom as a singer and a TV show host. They moved their family (including Danielle\u2019s brother, Andrew, who has also flown down from abroad for the Sri Lankan Christmas holiday) and careers from Australia to the United States when, at the age of nine, Danielle demonstrated outstanding potential by becoming the youngest winner of an Australian TV talent competition. The key purpose of the move was to present Danielle with better opportunities to hone her talent.<\/span><\/p>\n

Beverly and Chris still attend every opening show as well as the occasional rehearsal. Chris makes film recordings of the rehearsal while Beverly makes notes. These recordings and notes provide the base for Danielle\u2019s self study. Beverly, a musician herself, also played an important role in Danielle\u2019s training, attending lessons with her and, again, taking \u201ca million notes\u2019\u2019 as the star describes it. Back at home, she would then work through these notes with the younger Danielle, helping her practise.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Portrait of Danielle: Pic by Sven Arnstein<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI only realized that mothers and daughters have trouble in their relationships once I met my friends\u2019 mothers, as a teenager,\u201d Danielle says. Beverly\u2019s involvement in her training and career, far from complicating their mother-daughter relationship, has helped cement a foundation of trust. \u201cI can go to her for critique or advice, and know that anything that my mum would say to me comes from a place of love,\u201d the star explains, adding that Beverly herself is an \u201cexcellent musician\u201d albeit with no desire for the stage.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is this connection Danielle had with her \u201cwonderful family unit\u201d as a child that inspires her and drives her in her commitment to her own family. She defies the perception that a star with a hectic rehearsal and performance schedule on top of multiple other professional and personal commitments cannot have time to raise her children. \u201cThere is always this additional question for women, about balancing careers and families,\u201d she points out. \u201cI get asked if I\u2019m trying to have the cake and eat it too, but you\u2019d never ask that of my husband, for example. I think as women we have a tremendous capacity within us, this huge reserve of energy, of life, of spirit, we bring to everything we have. So I think women should never feel like they have to choose between work and family.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Dressed in a vividly multicoloured dress, the true star comes alive in the ease with which she keeps a check on her appearance, soothes her toddler, listens to the others gathered around the coffee table, shares her opinions and remembers to keep sipping warm milky tea in order to not let her throat dry out.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think that optics are really important,\u201d she says, \u201cbut I also think that being genuine is really important. As an artist you have to be yourself because you are the canvas, that\u2019s where your colour palette is \u2013 for every role, for every song. The smallest song, from \u2018Twinkle Twinkle\u2019 which I\u2019m singing for my baby \u2013 that\u2019s me who\u2019s singing it. You need to be true to this palette, because if on top of everything you have to hide yourself \u2013 ugh, it\u2019s just too tiring. It would be very tiresome and just exhausting!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Being a star, mother, patron of the arts (her husband, Gus Christie is the Executive Chair of the Glyndebourne Opera Festival), activist and educator (and this is not the end of the list of hats she wears), has always been the dream package for the diva. \u201cEven when I was a teenager doing a TV show in L.A., it was always this thread of wanting to be an opera singer who does this, this, this, and this, you know?\u201d she says, matter of fact. \u201cIt\u2019s not like I became an opera singer and then decided \u2018OK let me pack all these other things in too\u2026\u2019\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Danielle\u2019s Christmas holiday comes after a grueling fall\/winter performance schedule including three shows in three of London\u2019s best-loved theatres: La Boheme at the Royal Opera House, the first ever \u201cimmersive\u201d Handel\u2019s Messiah at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and It\u2019s a Wonderful Life with the English National Opera. \u201cI\u2019m just grateful that I was able to manage this really really hectic schedule and still spend time with my family and remain healthy,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just prior, the BBC released Danielle\u2019s (and quite likely modern opera\u2019s) most unique project to date: a film of Poulenc\u2019s La Voix Humaine. \u201cI wanted to make a film that happens to be an opera, not a film of an opera,\u201d she says, pointing out that in an opera on film \u201cyou show what the show is like\u201d. The 40-minute one-woman show (originally a play by Jean Cocteau) is among the \u201choly grail\u201d of female roles for Danielle. As an opera it is a challenge, and as an opera on film, it was a \u201cbig leap\u201d for the singer\/actor. \u201cNo one\u2019s ever done the opera this way. It was all very close-capture, the camera was always on me and only on me,\u201d she says, describing the intensity of the job. \u201cIt was a gruelling six days of 10 hours of work a day. We didn\u2019t even know if I\u2019d be able to sing for ten hours each day!\u201d The film was released to critical acclaim over Easter 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

Danielle de Niese is billed to perform in Colombo again on Friday, January 6 at Barnes, Jetwing Colombo Seven at 7.30 p.m. The programme for Friday is a smorgasbord of pieces from opera and musical theatre, including \u201cDon\u2019t Cry for Me Argentina\u201d, a medley of Andrew Lloyd-Webber numbers, Puccini\u2019s O Mio Bambino Caro, \u201cSummertime\u201d by George Gershwin as well as pieces by Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Bizet, Bernstein and Kern.\u00a0 She will be accompanied on the piano by Dilan Angunawela. Box plan and tickets are available at Jetwing Colombo Seven.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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