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 Crippen and 200-meter backstroke. Crippen won the silver medal at the 2010 Pan Pacific Championships in the 200-meter butterfly, placing second to former world-record holder Jessicah Schipper. Teresa Crippen is the younger sister of swimmers Maddy, Fran and Claire Crippen. Teresa Crippen Teresa Crippen (born April 12, 1990) is an American competition swimmer who was a Pan American Games gold medalist. Crippen was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She grew up in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Germantown Academy in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania in 2008. She accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where she