Kiri Te Kanawa

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Meeting Venus (1991)

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Kiri Te Kanawa studied voice in New Zealand, where she was a popular singer as a teenager. She enrolled in the London Opera Center in 1966, and had her Covent Garden debut 1 December 1971. Although her acting ability is highly regarded on the operatic stage, she has made few theatrical films.

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Awards
- 1 win & 5 nominations

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Kiri Te Kanawa in Dame Kiri Te Kanawa: My World of Opera (1991)

José Carreras, Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Teresa Stratas, Joan Sutherland, and Kiri Te Kanawa in La Bohème (1982)

Kiri Te Kanawa in Christmas with Kiri Te Kanawa: Carols from Coventry Cathedral (1995)

Known for:

A Room with a View

7.2

Soundtrack("O mio babbino caro", "Chi il bel sogno di doretta")

1985

Die Fledermaus

8.7

TV Movie

Rosalinde

1984

Le nozze di Figaro

8.3

La Contessa di Almaviva

1976

Don Giovanni

7.6

Donna Elvira

1979

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Actress

Downton Abbey
- Dame Nellie Melba
- TV Series
- 2013
Imagine
- TV Series
- 2006
Vanessa
- Vanessa
- TV Movie
- 2001
Live from the Metropolitan Opera
- Amelia Grimaldi
- Arabella
- Rosalinde ...
- TV Series
- 1982–1995
Der Rosenkavalier
- The Marschallin
- TV Movie
- 1994
Capriccio
- The Countess
- TV Movie
- 1993
Great Performances
- Alcina
- TV Series
- 1993
Otello
- Desdemona
- TV Movie
- 1992
Simon Boccanegra
- Amelia
- TV Movie
- 1991
Meeting Venus
- Elisabeth (Tannhäuser highlights performed by) (voice)
- 1991
Die Fledermaus
- Rosalinde
- TV Movie
- 1984
Manon Lescaut
- Manon Lescaut
- TV Movie
- 1983
Tosca
- Tosca
- TV Movie
- 1982
Othello
- Desdemona
- TV Movie
- 1982
La Bohème
- Mimì
- TV Movie
- 1980

Music Department

Soundtrack

History of World Cinema
- performer: "Prelude: Xanadu; Snow Picture"
- Short
- 2021
Downton Abbey
- performer: "Songs My Mother Taught Me", "O mio babbino caro", "Donde lieta uscì" (Mimì's Farewell) (uncredited)
- TV Series
- 2013
Doctors
- performer: "The Flower Duet" (uncredited)
- TV Series
- 2009
Obaba
- performer: "Addio del Passato"
- 2005
In My Father's Den
- performer: "Chants d'Auvergne - Series 1: Bailero"
- 2004
The Kindness of Strangers
- performer: "Marietta's Aria from 'Die Tote Stadt'"
- 1998
Great Performances
- performer: "The Heart Is Slow To Learn"
- TV Series
- 1998
Peter's Friends
- performer: "Madame Butterfly - Un bel di"
- 1992
Meeting Venus
- performer: "Tannhäuser" (extraits), "Du bis wie eine Blume"
- 1991
A Room with a View
- performer: "O mio babbino caro", "Chi il bel sogno di doretta"
- 1985
Dieci registi italiani, dieci racconti italiani
- performer: "Nacht und träume"
- TV Series
- 1983
The Year of Living Dangerously
- performer: "Beim Schlafengehen"
- 1982