Lyric soprano Kiri Te Kanawa (born 1944) of New Zealand rose to great popularity because of the warmth and freshness of her voice and her own physical beauty, which lent a striking stage presence. Kiri Te Kanawa was born in Gisborne, New Zealand, on...

* "KIRI" Arias from Samson (Handel), Le Nozze di Figaro, La Traviata, Gianni Schicchi, Adriana Lecouvreur, La Rondine, Louise, Excerpts from Vesperae Solennes de Confessore (Mozart), Chants d' Auvergne. Selections by Bach-Gounod, Gershwin, Kern, Berlin, Porter, McCartney, Skarbek. Various orchestras conducted by Rose, Solti,...

International opera star Dame Kiri Te Kanawa returned in triumph to her native New Zealand yesterday, drawing the country's biggest ever concert audience. Organizers put the number of fans at an open-air concert in Auckland's Domain Park at 140,000, more than double the crowds...

Opera diva Dame Kiri Te Kanawa prevailed Wednesday in a lawsuit that sought damages from her because she had canceled appearances with an Australian pop singer after learning women threw their underwear at him on stage.The New South Wales state Supreme Court dismissed the lawsuit,...

Today is Tuesday, March 6, the 65th day of 2007. There are 300 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:One hundred and fifty years ago, on March 6, 1857, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford that Scott, a slave,...