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 Albuzzi-Todeschini Brühl fell in love with Albuzzi-Todeschini and he had a gazebo built for her outside the Dresden town walls, called "Brühl's Rotunda" but nicknamed "Albuzzi's Bush". Albuzzi-Todeschini remained in Dresden during the Seven Years' War but joined her mother, her husband Antonio Schreivogel-Todeschini, and her two children in Milan in December 1758. She died after a long illness in 1760 at the inn "Zum Einhorn" and was buried on 25 May 1760 in Prague. Teresa Albuzzi-Todeschini Teresa Albuzzi-Todeschini (26 December 1723 – 30 June 1760) was an Italian opera singer (contralto) who performed in Germany. Born in Milan, Albuzzi-Todeschini was