Ironically, Dame Kiri used to be accused of being exactly the same type of schlocky crossover artist that she now disses so viciously. She has sung concert medleys, made recordings of My Fair Lady and West Side Story, performed with Elton John and Paul McCartney, and advertised supermarkets.
But it's hard to square the priggish, elitist diva of today with the woman who once told interviewer Melvyn Bragg that the opera world was "staid and boring", and that she would have loved to be Tina Turner.
After years of being entertained by her magnificently queenly antics, I fear Dame Kiri has made the transition from sacred cow to, frankly, cow.
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