New Zealand’s internationally acclaimed opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa was honoured in Wellington tonight with the exemplary award from Te Waka Toi, the Maori Arts Board of Creative New Zealand.

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 ...

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, one of opera's most celebrated stars, has told the BBC she will never sing in public again. Dame Kiri, 73, said she stopped performing a year ago, but had not announced her ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa has built her reputation on her gorgeous voice and equally handsome face and figure. At an impressively well-attended recital Sunday at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, ...

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 ...