General | New Zealand Herald (The)
6 August 2020
Clinical lead physiotherapist for critical care at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, New Zealander Natalie Scott, has received the Freedom of the City of London – a recognition awarded to people who have achieved success, recognition or celebrity…
Opera | BBC
19 September 2017
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, one of opera’s most celebrated stars, has told the BBC she will never sing in public again. Te Kanawa, 73, said she stopped performing a year ago, but had not…
Opera | Tonedeaf
18 April 2016
When “Lorde and her minimalist pop masterpiece ‘Royals’ gradually conquered the world in 2013, fans and critics alike in the US and Europe – and to a lesser extent in Australia – declared it…
Opera | Bendigo Advertiser (The)
22 March 2016
New Zealand-born performer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa will perform a series of concerts in Australia later this year. Te Kanawa’s performances in Bendigo and Ballarat could be one of the last chances for people…
Music | YouTube
25 December 2015
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa’s angelic voice. Dame Kiri Te Kanawa sings with Philharmonia Orchestra, Carl Davis / conductor. Recorded at Barbican Center,…
Opera | Classic FM magazine
14 March 2015
The Prince of Wales presented legendary Kiwi soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa with an honorary doctorate at a ceremony at the Royal College of Music.
“It’s a great honour to be given such a title…
Opera | Guardian (The) | Observer (The)
28 September 2014
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, one of the world’s greatest opera stars, has made an impassioned plea for Britain to stop blocking the flow of young singers into opera houses so that the top quality…
Opera | Chicago Sun Times
18 August 2014
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa “is as busy as ever” recently performing works based on American poet Emily Dickinson’s poems at the Ravinia Festival in Illinois.
The Ravinia Festival, which has had a long association with…
Opera | Guardian (The)
11 March 2014
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa has returned to Covent Garden after 17 years for performances of Donizetti’s comedy La Fille du Régiment in the role of the Duchess of Crackentorp.
Te Kanawa celebrated her 70th birthday…
Film & TV | Telegraph (The)
8 October 2013
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, “one of the greatest opera sopranos of the past 40 years”, has joined Downton Abbey for a single episode to play Australian soprano Nellie Melba. The Telegraph’s Laura Thompson meets…
Te Reo
3 October 2013
Listen to Dame Kiri Te Kanawa’s beautiful voice as she performs Hine E Hine & Tahi Nei Taru Kino in London 1985. Dame Kiri Te Kanawa has had a…
Film & TV | Huffington Post (The)
22 August 2013
New Zealand-born opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, who has sung for presidents and princes, including in front of a 600-million audience at Prince Charles’s wedding to Lady Diana Spencer in 1981, has revealed…
Opera | BBC News
9 May 2013
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa will perform the British national anthem “God Save the Queen” in the gardens of Buckingham Palace in July to mark the 60th anniversary of the Queen’s coronation. Te…