Kiri te Kanawa, soprano. Lyon National Opera Orchestra, Kent Nagano, conductor (Erato) Perhaps the very close recording reveals some hardness to her tone and now there is a slight beat on the highest ...

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa has embarked on a farewell tour of sorts, and as part of it she stopped at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall on Tuesday night. We say “of sorts” because the 63-year-old ...

Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa has built her reputation on her gorgeous voice and equally handsome face and figure. At an impressively well-attended recital Sunday at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, ...

Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa gave what was billed as her Orange County farewell recital Tuesday at a sold-out Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall. Presented by the Philharmonic Society of Orange County ...

Renowned soprano Kiri Te Kanawa’s Saturday-evening recital at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall was billed as her “farewell” appearance in Washington. Having effectively retired from the operatic stage ...

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa gained legendary status almost overnight, following her sensational debut as the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 1971. She has since moved ...

Beauty may be, as the title character of Samuel Barber’s 1958 opera Vanessa puts it, “the hardest gift to keep.” But some folks manage to keep it awfully well. Just check out the soprano in that role ...

1. Verdi and Puccini: Arias, Kiri Te Kanawa (CBS). 2. The Movies Go to the Opera, various artists (Angel). 3. Hanson: Symphonies 1 and 2, Seattle Symphony (Delos). 4. Live in Tokyo 1988, Kathleen ...

Farewell appearances are tricky things, not always easy to spot reliably. Consider the case of Kiri Te Kanawa, who held a Davies Symphony Hall audience spellbound Sunday night with a program of French ...

The UK’s recorded music association, The BPI, today announced that The Classical BRIT Awards 2010 with NS&I will honour one of the most loved sopranos of the past century, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa with ...

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is a world-renowned opera singer and the first Kiwi to ever win a Grammy Award. In 1971, a young New Zealand opera singer was introduced to the British public for the first time.