# Kiri Te Kanawa

> A lyric soprano whose voice - mellow, warm, unforced - carried Mozart and Verdi into living rooms and opera houses across five decades. One night at Covent Garden in 1971 made her name; the years that followed made her canonical.

*New Zealand opera singer*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/kiri-te-kanawa

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Singer / Musician ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220))
- **Category:** Musicians
- **Country:** New Zealand
- **Born:** 1944-03-06
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Born Claire Mary Teresa Rawstron on 6 March 1944 in New Zealand, she became Kiri Te Kanawa and trained a full lyric soprano that critics called vibrant and ample without strain. On 1 December 1971 she sang the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro at the Royal Opera House in London and the recognition went international. She built a career across four centuries of repertoire, singing in multiple languages, but the through-line was Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, and Richard Strauss - often cast as aristocrats, often landing in the top forty on Australian charts in the mid-1980s. Late in her working life she pulled back from opera, choosing concerts and recitals instead, and spent her time teaching masterclasses and shepherding young singers through the hardest stretch of apprenticeship.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 73.6 / 100
- **Momentum:** 3.8 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 23.8 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 1.7 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 80.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 90.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #25
- **Total followers across platforms:** 78,500

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0853490/ (@nm0853490)
- **SPOTIFY**: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3fcsflK8xu26XH4OYTcm5T (@3fcsflK8xu26XH4OYTcm5T)
- **WEBSITE**: http://www.kiritekanawa.org
- **YOUTUBE**: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChfG42mAZXV1Rejj64MZszw (@@kiri_thy, 78,500 followers)

## Timeline
- **2018** - Companion of Honour
- **2015** - Honorary Doctor of the Royal College of Music
- **2008** - Edison Music Awards 2003
- **2006** - Honorary Doctor of Victoria University of Wellington
- **1996** - Honorary Doctor of the University of Waikato
- **1995** - Order of New Zealand
- **1983** - Honorary Doctor of the University of Auckland
- **1982** - Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- **1944** - Born

## Sources
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- [キリ・テ・カナワ](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%86%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AF)
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- [MusicBrainz](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/1a78bb97-ad86-4f89-b4b4-cc10953103c3)
- [Discogs](https://www.discogs.com/artist/532265)
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- [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kiri_Te_Kanawa)

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