Kiri Te Kanawa Kiri Te Kanawa Dame Kiri Janette Te Kanawa (; born Claire Mary Teresa Rawstron, 6 March 1944) is a New Zealand soprano. She has a full lyric soprano voice, which has been described as "mellow yet vibrant, warm, ample and unforced". Te Kanawa has received accolades in many countries, singing a wide array of works in many languages dating from the 17th to the 20th centuries. She is particularly associated with the works of Mozart, Strauss, Verdi, Handel and Puccini, and has found considerable success in portraying princesses, nobility, and other similar characters on stage. Though she rarely sang opera
Theresia Singer Theresia Singer Theresia Singer (also known as Teresa Singer) was an operatic soprano. Singer trained in Vienna and in Italy. During the 1870-1871 season, she sang in the Court Opera of Vienna, before travelling to Italy. In 1873 she debuted at Milan's La Scala as the title role of Verdi's "Aida" and as Marguerite in Gounod's "Faust". In 1876 she joined the Théâtre-Italien in Paris, and in 1877 she sang at the Theater of Graz. In 1878 she appeared at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples with the premiere of the opera "Antonio e Cleopatra" by Mario Rossi. The