Reporting from New York — In her four decades of performing on the international stage, Kiri Te Kanawa has appeared to live a fairy-tale existence. Adopted as an infant, Te Kanawa enjoyed a modest New ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since then, Te Kanawa committed herself to nurturing young artists, sitting as a judge in singing competitions and establishing the Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation which supports young musicians and singers ...

Te Kanawa, 69, who has retired from opera, said too much emphasis was now put on singers' appearance, adding that often they were "more beautiful than their voice". "That's a bit of a sadness," she ...

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 ...

LONDON (Reuters) – New Zealand opera star Kiri Te Kanawa will act, and sing, in an upcoming episode of the hit British stately home drama “Downton Abbey”, a spokeswoman for the ITV series said on ...

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa has said that she "couldn't say 'yes' fast enough" to appearing in Downton Abbey. Te Kanawa has been cast as real-life opera singer Dame Nellie Melba in Downton Abbey's fourth ...