Kiri Te Kanawa threw their underwear on stage, which he would then proudly display. The court found that no contract had been made by the two parties, so Te Kanawa was not liable for damages, but Mittane, the company which employs and manages her, was ordered to reimburse Leading Edge A$130,000 for expenditures already incurred. 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
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