KIRI Te Kanawa became one of opera's most celebrated stars during a legendary career that spanned almost five decades. The world-renowned soprano, 74, also performed at Princes Charles' wedding to ...

Attending the opera is a little like throwing a dinner party. There are so many little details to worry about -- what to wear, where to sit, what to say -- that it's easy to lose track of why you're ...

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 ...

For Chicago opera-lovers, January is the cruelest month. With the autumn Lyric Opera season just over, and the Chicago Opera Theater season yet to begin, local devotees of the lyric muse must content ...

One of the world’s greatest sopranos, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa will be honoured at a star-studded gala event on Wednesday, 20 November, celebrating her remarkable career and also the renaming of the Aotea ...

Although she already hasn't sung publicly in nearly a year, the 73-year-old lyric soprano from New Zealand told the BBC Wednesday morning: "That's... One of the world's best-known opera stars, Dame ...

Mozart's absolutely gorgeous 'Exsultate, jubilate' ...

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 ...