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Kiri Te Kanawa retires from opera
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 13 August 2009
After four decades as a soprano singer, Kiri Te Kanawa has announced that she is retiring from opera because she finds it too “exhausting”.
The New Zealand-born singer told The Telegraph that her final operatic performance would be at the Cologne Opera in Germany in April next year, when she will sing the part of the Marschallin in Richard Strauss’ ‘Der Rosenkavalier’.
However, Te Kanawa said that she would remain involved with the world of singing, mentoring “future opera stars” at the Solti Academy and her own Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation, as well as touring and performing in less tough disciplines.
