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Ua lawe ʻo Kiri Te Kanawa i kona wahi kūpono i waena o nā hōkū o ke kahua keaka honua ma hope koke iho o kāna hoʻomaka ʻana ma Covent Garden (1971). I kēia lā, ua kapa ʻia kēia mea mele kekahi o nā sopranos ʻoi loa o ke kenekulia. ʻO kāna leo kupaianaha a me kāna repertoire nui, e uhi ana i nā mele o nā kenekulia like ʻole a me nā kula ʻEulopa, ua huki i ka manaʻo o nā alakaʻi nui o ko mākou manawa - Claudio Abbado, Sir Colin Davis, Charles Duthoit, James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Seiji Ozawa, Georg Solti.

Ua hānau ʻia ʻo Kiri Te Kanawa i ka lā 6 o Malaki, 1944 ma Gisborne ma ke kahakai hikina o New Zealand. Ua hānai ʻia kekahi kaikamahine liʻiliʻi me ke koko Maori e ka makuahine ʻIrelani a me ka Maori. ʻO kona makuakāne hānai, ʻo Tom Te Kanawa, ua kapa ʻia ʻo ia ʻo Kiri ma muli o kona makuakāne (ʻo ia hoʻi "bele" ma ka ʻōlelo Maori, a me nā mea ʻē aʻe). ʻO Claire Mary Teresa Rawstron ka inoa maoli o Kiri Te Kanawa.

ʻO ka mea mahalo, ua hoʻomaka ʻo Kiri Te Kanawa ma ke ʻano he mezzo-soprano a hīmeni i ka mezzo repertoire a hiki i ka makahiki 1971. Ua lawe ʻia ka kaulana honua iā ia e nā hana o Xenia ma Boris Godunov e M. Mussorgsky a me ka Countess ma VA Mozart. Ma waho aʻe o nā hana kūleʻa ma Covent Garden, ua hana ʻo Kiri i kahi hoʻomaka maikaʻi loa ma ka Metropolitan Opera ʻo Desdemona (Otello na G. Verdi).

ʻO ka ʻokoʻa o ka makemake mele o Kiri Te Kanawa e pono ke nānā nui ʻia: ma waho aʻe o nā opera a me nā mele kahiko (na nā haku mele Farani, Kelemānia a me Pelekania), ua hoʻopaʻa ʻo ia i kekahi mau disc o nā mele kaulana a Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, a me Mele Kalikimaka. I ka makahiki 1990, ua hōʻike ʻo ia i ka hoihoi i ka hana noʻeau o ka ʻāina a ua hoʻopaʻa ʻo ia i kahi disc o nā mele ʻōiwi (Māori Songs, EMI Classic, 1999).

Makemake ʻo Kiri Te Kanawa e kaupalena i kāna repertoire opera. "ʻAʻole nui kaʻu repertoire opera. Makemake au e kū i kekahi mau ʻāpana a aʻo iā lākou e like me ka hiki. ʻO ka opera Italia, no ka laʻana, hīmeni liʻiliʻi wau. Basically, Desdemona ("Othello") a me Amelia ("Simon Boccanegra") G. Verdi. Hoʻokahi wale nō mele au iā Manon Lescaut Puccini, akā hoʻopaʻa wau i kēia māhele. Ma ke kumu, hīmeni wau iā W. Mozart a me R. Strauss,” wahi a Kiri Te Kanawa.

Ua lanakila 'o Kiri Te Kanawa i 'elua mau makana Grammy (1983 no Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, 1985 no L. Bernstein's Wet Side Story), ua pa'a 'o Kiri Te Kanawa i na degere hanohano mai Oxford, Cambridge, Chicago a me na kula nui e ae. I ka makahiki 1982, ua hāʻawi ʻo Queen Elizabeth iā ia i ka Order of the British Empire (mai ia manawa mai, ua loaʻa iā Kiri Te Kanawa ka prefix Dame, e like me Sir, ʻo ia hoʻi, ua kapa ʻia ʻo ia ʻo Lede Kiri Te Kanawa). I ka makahiki 1990, ua loaʻa i ka mea mele ka Order of Australia, a i ka makahiki 1995, ka Order of New Zealand.

ʻAʻole makemake ʻo Kiri Te Kanawa e kūkākūkā i kona ola pilikino. I ka makahiki 1967, ua mare ʻo Kiri i ka ʻenekinia Australian Desmond Park, āna i hālāwai ai me "makapō". Ua hānai lāua i ʻelua keiki, ʻo Antonia lāua ʻo Thomas (ma 1976 a me 1979). I ka makahiki 1997, ua oki ka male.

He kanaka ʻauʻau a he kanaka kolepa nui ʻo Kiri Te Kanawa, makemake ʻo ia i ka wai ski, kuke like me ke akamai e like me kāna hīmeni ʻana. Makemake ʻo Kiri i nā holoholona a he nui nā ʻīlio a me nā pōpoki. ʻO ka mea mele he mea pāʻani nui i ka rugby, hauʻoli i ka lawaiʻa a me ka pana. ʻO kāna mea leʻaleʻa hou loa i hana nui ʻia ma Scotland i ka hāʻule hope loa i ka wā i hele mai ai ʻo ia e hopu ma ke kono a ka mea nona kekahi o nā hale kākela kūloko. Noho ʻo ia ma ka hōkele, ua noi ʻo ia i ka mea hoʻokipa e hōʻike iā ia i kahi lumi no ka mālama ʻana i nā mea kaua i mea e haʻalele ai iā lākou no ka pō, ʻo ia ka mea i makaʻu nui i nā Sekotia hanohano, a wikiwiki lākou e kāhea i nā mākaʻi. Ua ʻike koke nā luna hoʻokō kānāwai i ke kumu, a lawe ʻoluʻolu i nā pū a ka primadona i ke kahua no ka mālama ʻana.

No kekahi manawa, ua ʻōlelo ʻo Kiri Te Kanawa e hoʻomaha ʻo ia mai ke kahua i ka makahiki 60. “Manaʻo wau ke hoʻoholo wau e haʻalele, ʻaʻole wau e aʻo aku i kekahi. No ka poʻe makemake e hele i kaʻu ʻaha mele hope loa, ʻoi aku ka maikaʻi o ka wikiwiki, no ka mea, ʻo kēlā me kēia ʻaha mele ka hope loa.

Nikolai Polezhaev