I saw her at the Met on Sunday. She's now 75 years old and the voice is still very much there.

What a treasure…thank you so very much for sharing this priceless gift with us.

This is great footage. Please never remove it. So much can be learned from this. Future performances needs to see this amazing footage

Thank you!!!!

Just leave Our Kathleen Battle alone....

I know exactly what her issue was......When you have James Levine telling her that she's the greatest and that you give them all a singing lesson - and the Newyork times hails her as one of the best Lyric Coloratura Soprano in the World right now - it adds to the stress of already trying to live up to those demands and compliments......Jessye Norman was Different, because she was overseas singing....I'm not at all excusing miss battles behavior....I think her mind got twisted along with probably being high strung.

To reach the top one needs to be a special artist, but then have to work with less artistic people, less talented, unreasonable conditions. Sing to audiences who wouldn't attend a performance without a star. Audiences who are not particularly cultured or experienced. I support the singers. Rather sexist as well, we rarely hear of male singers being 'diva / divo', its a term used only by interviewers for women.

14:47 Ariadne “Nauf” Naxos

Lisa Gasteen, "mezzo soprano"? "Ariadne Nauf Naxos"? Lord have mercy.

Back in the day when corporate media at least made an effort at not passing off hearsay as proof, unlike today. The allegations made about Battle at the top of the show were scandalous at the time, but Koppel reminds us that they may not be true. That is the case with just about everything alleged about anyone else, but esp when they're famous, most esp when no supporting evidence is provided, nor even so much as requested. I find two things interesting: one, that the Great Domingo is not included in the roster of prima donnas, for good reason, and two, that Peter Gelb was Battle's agent at that time and he makes a case in her defense for her propensities. Later when he took on running the Met, and allegations were levied against the Great Domingo ensnared by the metoo extortion cartel, Gelb did, briefly, do the same for Domingo. But whatever backbone he had while championing his client, it was snapped in two by the baying wolfpack known as the Court of Public Opinion. Considering how flimsy and blatantly contrived the allegations against Domingo are, one day, he will be vindicated. The cowards around him, the people whom he helped and enriched for so long but tucked tail and hid, like Gelb did ultimately, they will forever be hollow and meaningless to me and the billions of Domingo's faithful supporters. For a while now, the metoo cartel has been crumbling from the fraud, hoaxes, and misappropriation of millions in its name, and the "hashtag metoo" is losing its power to terrorize innocent men. None too soon. Some of the falsely accused killed themselves. So metoo has blood on its hands. Sadly, as in Fatty Arbuckle's case, and many more (cf The Innocence Project), the women who have lied to destroy men and get a payday will not be punished. Soapbox stowed. Pardon the mini-rant, injustice is a pet peeve. Mil gracias. Paz y salud.

If you are a professional and come across better than you get what you deserve!! Kathleen Battle does have a wonderful voice but there is no need to be ugly or a diva .

Kathleen Battle was a royal pain in the ass. I had the misfortune of being in three productions with her.