Kiri Te Kanawa

"She is a lady of uncommon grace, of bearing, of radiant beauty, and possessor of one of the most gorgeous, limpid voices on the opera stage today. Listening to her sing is like watching a smooth thick cream pour from a pitcher -- evenly, without lumps, richly, carressingly. As if that were not enough, she acts with conviction, temperment, and tremendous poise."--Thor Eckert, Jr. (Christian Science Monitor, 1983)
"'We have', said a passing couple to me on their way to their seats, 'called our boat after her.' That's nothing; I have called my pillow after her. And my behaviour at the interval was such that the lady I had taken to the concert, having endured my raptures with as much composure as she could muster, finally boiled over when I apologetically (though not very apologetically) told her that I had forgotten her name..." -- Bernard Levin (London Times, 1976)
"She was radiant. The beauty of her tone has never been in question; to beauty of tone she added a beauty of enunciation, a feeling for the utterance of consonants and distinct vowels, which made her once again the ardent, marvellous performer of her early days. The Willow Song and Ave Maria provided one of those episodes of transcendental rapture which operagoers remember all their lives: singer, conductor, players (English horn and flutes), and audience caught together in an enchanted spell." -- Andrew Porter (New Yorker, 5/13/1991)
"Her singing is not simply a matter of voice, but while there are plenty of sopranos who will perform with admirable efficiency in a comparable repertoire, there is not one in a thousand who can provide such beauty of tone."-- J.B. Steane (Kiri Portrait liner notes)

Discography
Videography
Selected Bibliography
Pictures
Biography
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