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
Teresa Stich-Randall appeared on a number of notable recordings including "Falstaff", "Der Rosenkavalier", "The Marriage of Figaro" and "L'Orfeo". Her career had largely ended by 1980 and she died in Vienna, aged 79, in 2007, of natural causes. Teresa Stich-Randall Teresa Stich-Randall (December 24, 1927July 17, 2007) was a European-based American soprano opera singer. Teresa Stich-Randall was born in New Hartford, Connecticut in 1927 and studied at Hartford School of Music in Hartford under Ivan Velikanoff. Her operatic debut was in the role of Henrietta M. in Virgil Thomson's "The Mother of Us All" in 1947 and she sang the title role