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Biography
Dame Kiri Jeanette Claire Te Kanawa is a New Zealand opera singer. She has a full lyric soprano voice, which has been described as "mellow yet vibrant, warm, ample and unforced". On 1 December 1971 she was recognised internationally when she appeared as the Countess in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at the Royal Opera House in London.
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Awards & recognition
- Companion of Honour · 2018
- honorary doctor of the Royal College of Music · 2015
- Exemplary/Supreme Award of the Te Waka Toi Awards · 2010
- Edison Music Awards 2003 · 2008
- honorary doctor of Victoria University of Wellington · 2006
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- honorary doctor of the University of Waikato · 1996
- Order of New Zealand · 1995
- Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia · 1990
- honorary doctor of the University of Auckland · 1983
- Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 1982
- Brit Award — Classical Recording
- Classic Brit Awards
- doctor honoris causa of the University of Warwick
- honorary doctor of Durham University
- honorary doctor of the University of Bath
- honorary doctor of the University of Chicago
- Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford
- honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge
