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 Hegarty Mary Hegarty Mary Hegarty is an Irish opera soprano singer. Born in Fermoy, County Cork, she studied singing at the Cork School of Music with Maeve Coughlan, representing Ireland at an early stage at the Cardiff Singer of the World festival in 1985. She went on to study at the National Opera Studio in London and gave her Covent Garden debut in 1988. She also sang at Opera North and numerous other theatres and festivals across the British Isles. She is perhaps best known for film projects such as "Match Point" and Jonathan Dove's television opera "Buzz on the Moon".