Kathleen Battle Tickets

Still a diva after all these years! Intelligent and moving program, beautiful arrangements!

Kathleen Battle has a voice that moves one to where she wants to take you, she could sing the phone book and it would sound great! The opening song was so heart wrenching it brought me to tears, hearing the words I felt I was the hear-broken slave who's life was so bad she sang, "Lord, I wish I was never born!" She is so good and the lyrics and music of so many of these Spirituals so good that it made for a deeply touching and heart opening experience! The choir was phenomenal, their voices backing her up perfectly, and the pianist, Wow, jazzy, emotional and perfect accompaniment to the voices.

Awesome vocals, unbelievable pianist, fabulous vocal group! A soaring, inspirational evening!!

Thank you for bringing Ms. Battle and the McNeil Singers to UCLA live. It was a wonderful event. The event timing was perfect, as it was planned for the Saturday following MLK, Jr. day.

Saw her at the Blue Note in June with Cyrus Chestnut and was floored. This woman is fantastic, the range of repertoire she has and the ability to make music...spell binding. High of the night, the Encore Lush life. She took her audience to the seat of a woman's broken heart. Well done KB. I will travel for you any time!

An amazing, engaging performance. Her voice is still fantastic, and her interaction with the audience made for an unforgettable experience. Her pianist was equally amazing.

Ms. Battle has a beautiful voice and her pianist Cyrus Chestnut has great playing soul, but the whole show was one tempo and therefore seemed long. With her talent, she is capable of a much more varied program and would do well to have better rapport or connection with the audience. Only three or four numbers did justice to her wonderful talent.

Very disapppointing. Demonstrated neither range nor technique. Performance very one dimensional. Left the stage after every other piece - prolonging the performance to over 2 hours - but very little content. She spent more time staring at the accompanist as he played rather than actually singing. The Met was right to fire her if this is the best she can do.

KB WAS TERRIBLE. STERILE. NO CONNECTION . SHE AND HER PIANIST WERE CONSTANTLY TRYING TO GET THE MUSIC RIGHT. MISSED SONGS ON THE PROGRAM. REPEATED SONGS, WALKED OFF THE STAGE BECAUSE OF A PROBLEM WITH A PHONE. NOT CHRISTMAS,NOT JOY FULL. JUST TERRIBLE

I was so excited to see Kathleen Battle in concert; I own her CD, *Grace,* and love it. I figured all of that diva stuff was just rumors. Well, she started out with a lacklustre performance, and, at one point, she actually left stage in a huff because someone had the audacity to take a picture. I understand that this is distracting, but the rest of us all paid good money to see this concert, and it was extremely disrespectful to her audience. The second half of the concert was better, and she did put up an amazing performance of "Santa Baby..." Her voice is still one of the most beautiful I've ever heard, but it's too bad that her personality doesn't match.

Kathleen Battle's performance in Charleston was magnificent. With her operatic performances few and far between these days, I did not think I would ever again have the opportunity to see Ms. Battle perform live. Not only was it worth the price, it was an experience that will remain with me for quite some time to come. She performed a wide range of classics, spirituals and carols. She coaxed emotion and nuance out of every note and exhibited a range of scale and sound that took full advantage of the great acoustics of the concert hall. Unfortunately, she did have to stop during the middle of one piece to confront someone taking a cell phone movie (people, seriously, LISTEN to the requests before the show and TURN THEM OFF!), but she was gracious enough to come back out and repeat that song as well as the one that had preceded it. Her pianist, Cyrus Chestnut, is a highly talented performer in his own right, and took great pleasure in his opportunities to showcase his talents during solos and transitions. In some cases, this led to a bit of pause in his reaction to Ms. Battle's directional signals, but for the most part he responded quickly and seamlessly to her requests. I would recommend this concert, and any Kathleen Battle performance for that matter, to any fan of opera, spirituals or good music in general.