And I think it is our job not just to sing the notes but to bring out everything that lies dormant on that page. Modern recording techniques produce sound of such clarity that often some of the atmosphere is lost. But they will never take the place of the real thing, she believes. The human voice is such a viable instrument because there is a soul behind it. There are thought processes behind it.
Every tiny nuance changes the colour of the voice at any particular moment.
Just the shading of a word, of a vowel that you are singing changes the colour of the voice and this makes the human voice such a special instrument. But life not all work and no play for Kathleen who ensures that she spends a good deal of quality time with her husband of almost ten years, baritone, Renato Girolami who also maintains a busy opera schedule in Europe. Every possible opportunity to relax finds them together on a golf course, although at present they live in Monte Carlo. Her dream holiday destination was always Portugal's Algarve - that is until she set foot in Durban. I thought it must be beautiful here, on the Indian Ocean.