Sull aria kiri te kanawa biography
Sull aria kiri te kanawa biography
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Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
"I only have so much energy, so something had to go. This is why, at the end of the day, I've preserved my sanity for the children and also manage to do my best at work." -Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
Maori soprano Kiri Te Kanawa was born in Gisborne, on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, on March 6/1944.
She is the adopted daughter of an Irish mother and Maori father. After winning the John Court Aria Prize and the Mobil Song Quest, Kiri shot to stardom in New Zealand and was accepted without audition to study at the London Opera Centre in 1965.
After appearing in little known operas such as Delibes' Le Roi l'a dit and Wolf-Ferrari's The Inquisitive Woman, Kiri received critical praise as Idamantes in Mozart's Idomeneo.
Soon after, Kiri was granted a three-year contract as a junior principal at Covent Garden.