Over the next several months, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, among operadom’s most beloved voices, will be singing on what is being billed as her farewell tour. As part of it, she stops by the Renée and Henry ...

Dame Kiri Jeanette Claire Te Kanawa ONZ, CH, DBE, AC (/ˈkɪri təˈkɑːnəwə/; born Claire Mary Teresa Rawstron, 6 March 1944) is a retired New Zealand opera singer. She had a full lyric soprano voice, ...

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, (L) and Mstislav Rostropovich on stage at the end of the "Prom At The Palace" concert in the grounds of London's Buckingham Palace as part of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II Golden ...

For quite a while now, there has been talk of Kiri Te Kanawa retiring, at least from the opera stage. But each time someone declares that she’s heading for the exit door, she says (as she did to me in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kiri Te Kanawa is not about to go gentle into the good night of retirement. The beloved, New Zealand-born soprano, who celebrated her 66th birthday in March, bade a sentimental adieu to the operatic ...