May 2007 photo of Dame Kiri. Courtesy: University of Florida Performing Arts
Dame Kiri, who attended a convent school at Avondale, will perform in two more operas before calling it quits. The first will be in New York this February and the second in the German city of Cologne in April.
"Cologne will be my last," the former Blockhouse bay resident told Britain’s Daily Telegraph.
"I don’t want to do it on a regular basis now because it’s exhausting. I think certainly our voices change – opera is mainly for young people."
In Cologne Dame Kiri will play the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss.
She will play the Duchess of Krakenthorpa in Gaetano Donizetti’s La Fille du Regiment at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Dame Kiri performed at the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer in 1981 and has not sung opera since 2004. But she says persistent rumours of her retirement have been premature.
"I have not been singing opera very much but I still sing a lot of concerts. I’m extremely busy with all sorts of things," she says. [rc]
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August 18, 2009
NEW ZEALAND: Dame Kiri is still ‘extremely busy’
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand / Western Leader / News / August 18, 2009
One of west Auckland’s most famous daughters is winding up her international opera career. But Dame Kiri Te Kanawa isn’t leaving the stage completely.
The 65-year-old says she’ll keep singing at concerts and has plenty of bookings lined up to keep her busy. It’s the big operatic performances she now finds too tiring.
May 2007 photo of Dame Kiri. Courtesy: University of Florida Performing Arts
Dame Kiri, who attended a convent school at Avondale, will perform in two more operas before calling it quits. The first will be in New York this February and the second in the German city of Cologne in April.
"Cologne will be my last," the former Blockhouse bay resident told Britain’s Daily Telegraph.
"I don’t want to do it on a regular basis now because it’s exhausting. I think certainly our voices change – opera is mainly for young people."
In Cologne Dame Kiri will play the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss.
She will play the Duchess of Krakenthorpa in Gaetano Donizetti’s La Fille du Regiment at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Dame Kiri performed at the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer in 1981 and has not sung opera since 2004. But she says persistent rumours of her retirement have been premature.
"I have not been singing opera very much but I still sing a lot of concerts. I’m extremely busy with all sorts of things," she says. [rc]
© 2009 Fairfax New Zealand Limited
May 2007 photo of Dame Kiri. Courtesy: University of Florida Performing Arts
Dame Kiri, who attended a convent school at Avondale, will perform in two more operas before calling it quits. The first will be in New York this February and the second in the German city of Cologne in April.
"Cologne will be my last," the former Blockhouse bay resident told Britain’s Daily Telegraph.
"I don’t want to do it on a regular basis now because it’s exhausting. I think certainly our voices change – opera is mainly for young people."
In Cologne Dame Kiri will play the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss.
She will play the Duchess of Krakenthorpa in Gaetano Donizetti’s La Fille du Regiment at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Dame Kiri performed at the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer in 1981 and has not sung opera since 2004. But she says persistent rumours of her retirement have been premature.
"I have not been singing opera very much but I still sing a lot of concerts. I’m extremely busy with all sorts of things," she says. [rc]
© 2009 Fairfax New Zealand Limited
