Kiri Te Kanawa
Dame Kiri Jeanette Claire Te Kanawa (; born Claire Mary Teresa Rawstron, 6 March 1944) is a New Zealand opera singer. She has a full lyric soprano voice, which has been described as "mellow yet vibrant, warm, ample and unforced". On 1 December 1971 she was recognised internationally when she appeared as the Countess in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at the Royal Opera House in London. Te Kanawa received accolades in many countries, performing works composed in the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries and singing in several languages. She was particularly associated with the music of Mozart, Verdi, and Puccini and Richard Strauss, and was often cast as an aristocrat. Her extensive discography includes three albums which featured in the top forty in charts in Australia in the mid-1980s. Towards the end of her career, Te Kanawa appeared in opera only rarely, preferring to perform in concerts and recitals. She also devoted much of her time to giving masterclasses and supporting young opera singers through the period of their apprenticeship.
Genre: classical, opera
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Top Tracks
- The Flower Duet (From "Lakmé")
- Mozart: Cosi fan tutte, K. 588, Act 1: "Soave sia il sento" (Fiordiligi, Dorabella, Don Alfonso)
- Puccini: Turandot, Act 1: "Signore ascolta!" (Liù)
- Puccini: Tosca, Act 2: "Vissi d'arte" (Tosca)
- Puccini: La rondine, Act 1: "Chi il bel sogno di Doretta" (Magda)
- Gianni Schicchi: "O, mio babbino caro" - Live In London / 1994
- Ave Maria, D.839
- Le nozze di Figaro, K.492 / Act 2: "Voi signor, che giusto siete"
- Le nozze di Figaro, K.492 / Act 4: "Gente, gente, all'armi"
- Panis Angelicus
- La traviata / Act 1: "Follie! Delirio vano è questo!" - "Sempre libera"
- Vesperae solennes de confessore in C, K.339: 5. Laudate Dominum omnes gentes (Ps. 116/117)
- Le nozze di Figaro, K.492 / Act 3: "Che soave zeffiretto"
- Madama Butterfly, Act II: Un bel di (Butterfly)
- Chants d'Auvergne: 2. Bailero
- Mass in C minor, K.427 "Grosse Messe": 1. Kyrie
- Samson HWV 57 / Act 3: Let The Bright Seraphim
- In Paradisum: Requiem: In Paradisum
- Tosca / Act 2: "Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore"
- Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act III: E Susanna non vien! - Dove sono i bei momenti
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