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 Mattei Teresa Mattei Teresa Mattei, also known as Teresita (1 February 1921 - 12 March 2013) was an Italian partisan and politician. Born in Genoa, Mattei in 1938, Mattei was expelled from all schools of the Regno d'Italia for openly criticizing in her classroom the Racial laws. Graduating in philosophy at the University of Florence in 1944, she was a partisan with the nom de guerre "Partigiana Chicchi". She took part at the killing of philosopher and Fascist minister Giovanni Gentile. After the war, Mattei was a candidate for the Communist Party to the Constituent Assembly, in which she served as