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 ...

In March of 1944, Kiri Te Kanawa was born on the North island of New Zealand, and she went on to become one of the most beloved sopranos in the world. She had a voice of exceptional beauty and purity; ...

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 ...

For quite a while now, there has been talk of Kiri Te Kanawa retiring, at least from the opera stage. But each time someone declares that she’s heading for the exit door, she says (as she did to me in ...

Kiri Te Kanawa’s farewell concert tour will touch down at the Ravinia Festival on July 19 when the celebrated diva will perform what is being billed as her final Chicago concert. The New Zealand-born ...

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 ...

A descendant of Maori kings from her native New Zealand, and knighted as dame in her adopted home of England, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is royalty for another, more important, reason: her magnificent voice.

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 ...

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 ...