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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Zealand soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa looks back at her life in song through 40 years of performances from the archives, including rugby anthem World in Union on Top of the Pops.

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 ...

New Zealand baritone Julien Van Mellaerts was presented with The Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation Laureate by the Foundation’s Founder and Chair, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. At a gala concert to celebrate Dame Kiri ...

Singing pop songs show tunes and classic arias from the likes of Mozart and Handel chanteuse Kiri Te Kanawa delivers two wonderful performances one at an outdoor concert in her native New Zealand and ...

The Fonoti-Fuimaono brothers have just been named among 12 of the country's most promising opera singers, who will compete against each other in the Dame Kiri te Kanawa song quest semi finals in July.