These days, it’s practically a noble deed when a singer known mainly for opera turns around and does art songs: Many don’t even bother. Here, Kiri te Kanawa gives herself quite a challenge. She faces ...

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 ...

When it comes to attracting a large and susceptible audience to a Ravinia benefit gala, there is nothing quite like a Dame. This was the same Dame Kiri Te Kanawa who had left Ravinia in the lurch when ...

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 ...

Cymraeg Gwefan Cardiff Singer of the World yn y Gymraeg (Cardiff Singer of the World website in Welsh) Last updated: 03 March 2011 Jury member: BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Kiri Te Kanawa moved ...

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa will take time out of her international concert schedule to join BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition as patron and jury member, 12-19 June, 2011. The internationally ...

It was a chocolate and Champagne sort of night at the Hollywood Bowl. The festive mood at Friday’s season-opening concert proved extra-conducive for enjoying those consumables from one’s picnic basket ...

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 ...

WHEN a baseball pitcher ages, the first thing to go is his legs. When an operatic soprano ages, it is usually the high notes and the breath that go first. Then there is Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. The Kiwi ...