Sunday’s episode of “Downton Abbey” on PBS featured a guest appearance by one of opera’s biggest living talents: Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. The New Zealand-born soprano played Dame Nellie Melba, an actual ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa gave what was billed as her Orange County farewell recital Tuesday at a sold-out Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall. Presented by the Philharmonic Society of Orange County ...

In the 23 years since she scored a sensation as the Countess in “The Marriage of Figaro” at Covent Garden, Kiri te Kanawa has become one of the most celebrated singers of modern times in the opera ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is a world-renowned opera singer and the first Kiwi to ever win a Grammy Award. In 1971, a young New Zealand opera singer was introduced to the British public for the first time.