Dame Kiri Te Kanawa

Te Kanawa, Dame Kiri (1944– ), New Zealand operatic soprano. Her portrayal of the Countess in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro won her international acclaim in 1971. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1974 as Desdemona in Giuseppe Verdi's Othello. Widely recorded, she is known for her roles in works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Georges Bizet, and Richard Strauss.

See also: Opera.