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
Mary Beth Peil in 2017. Peil was nominated for a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role. Mary Beth Peil Mary Beth Peil (born June 25, 1940) is an American actress and singer. Peil (pronounced "peel") was born in 1940 in Davenport, Iowa. She trained as an opera singer at Northwestern University under Lotte Lehmann. There she became a member of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority. In 1964 she won both the Young Concert Artists International Auditions and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. During the 1960s, Peil