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Kiri Te Kanawa akatora nzvimbo yake yakakodzera pakati penyeredzi dzepasirose opera chiitiko nguva pfupi mushure mekutamba kwake kunonakidza kuCovent Garden (1971). Nhasi, muimbi uyu anonzi nenzira yakakodzera imwe yeanopenya sopranos yezana ramakore. Inzwi rake rinoshamisa uye repertoire yakakura, yakafukidza mimhanzi yemazana emakore akasiyana uye zvikoro zveEurope, yakakwezva kutarisisa kwevakuru vakuru venguva yedu - Claudio Abbado, Sir Colin Davis, Charles Duthoit, James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Seiji Ozawa, Georg Solti.
Kiri Te Kanawa akaberekwa Kurume 6, 1944 muGisborne kuEast Coast yeNew Zealand. Musikana mudiki ane ropa reMaori mutsinga dzake akatorwa naamai veIrish uye vaMaori. Baba vake vokurera, Tom Te Kanawa, vakamutumidza kuti Kiri zita rababa vake (zvinoreva "bhero" muchiMaori, pakati pevamwe). Kiri Te Kanawa zita chairo ndiClaire Mary Teresa Rawstron.
Sezvineiwo, Kiri Te Kanawa akatanga ari mezzo-soprano uye akaimba mezzo repertoire kusvika 1971. Mukurumbira wenyika dzakawanda wakaunzwa kwaari nemabasa eXenia muBoris Godunov naM. Mussorgsky uye Countess muVA Mozart. Pamusoro pekuita kwakabudirira paCovent Garden, Kiri akaita debut yakaisvonaka paMetropolitan Opera saDesdemona (Otello naG. Verdi).
Kusiyana kwezvido zvemumhanzi zvaKiri Te Kanawa kunofanirwa kutariswa zvakanyanya: mukuwedzera kune opera uye nziyo dzechinyakare (nevanyori veFrench, Germany neBritish), akarekodha madhisiki akati wandei enziyo dzakakurumbira naJerome Kern, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, pamwe chete. Nziyo dzeKisimusi. Muma1990s airatidza kufarira hunyanzvi hwenyika hweMaori uye akarekodha disc renziyo dzechiMaori (Maori Songs, EMI Classic, 1999).
Kiri Te Kanawa anosarudza kudzikamisa operatic repertoire yake. “Operatic repertoire yangu haina kunyanyokura. Ndinosarudza kumbomira pazvikamu zvishoma kuti ndizvidzidze zvakanaka sezvazvinogona. Somuenzaniso, opera yokuItaly, ndaiimba zvishoma. Chaizvoizvo, Desdemona ("Othello") uye Amelia ("Simon Boccanegra") G. Verdi. Ndakaimba Manon Lescaut Puccini kamwe chete, asi ndakarekodha chikamu ichi. Chaizvoizvo, ndinoimba W. Mozart naR. Strauss,” anodaro Kiri Te Kanawa.
Akahwina mibairo miviri yeGrammy (1983 yeMozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, 1985 yeL. Bernstein's Wet Side Story), Kiri Te Kanawa ane madhigirii ekuremekedza kubva kuOxford, Cambridge, Chicago nemamwe mayunivhesiti mazhinji. Muna 1982, Mambokadzi Elizabeth akamupa Order yeBritish Empire (kubva panguva iyoyo, Kiri Te Kanawa akagamuchira prefix Dame, yakafanana naSir, ndiko kuti, akazozivikanwa saLady Kiri Te Kanawa). Muna 1990, muimbi akapiwa Order of Australia, uye muna 1995, Order of New Zealand.
Kiri Te Kanawa haafarire kukurukura nezvehupenyu hwake. Muna 1967, Kiri akaroora injinjini yeAustralia Desmond Park, waakasangana naye "mapofu". Vaviri ava vakatora vana vaviri, Antonia naThomas (muna 1976 na1979). Muna 1997, vaviri vakarambana.
Kiri Te Kanawa mushambiri mukuru uye gorofu, anofarira kudiridza ski, anobika zvine hunyanzvi sezvaanoimba. Kiri anoda mhuka uye agara aine imbwa dzakawanda nekatsi. Muimbi anofarira rugby, anofarira kuredza nekupfura. Chaaifarira chaachangobva kuita chakaita mukurumbira muScotland mwaka wadarika paakauya kuzovhima adaidzwa nemuridzi weimwe yenhare dzeko. Achigara pahotera yacho, akakumbira mushandi wepanosvikira vaenzi kuti amuratidze kamuri rokuchengetera zvombo kuitira kuti azvisiire usiku, izvo zvakavhundutsa zvikuru vokuScots vanoremekedzwa, avo vakakurumidza kufonera mapurisa. Mapurisa emutemo akakurumidza kuziva kuti chii chakanga chiri nyaya yacho, uye nomutsa akatora pfuti dzeprima donna kuchiteshi kuti dzichengeterwe.
Kwekanguva, Kiri Te Kanawa akati achasiya nhandare aine makore 60. “Ndinofungidzira kuti kana ndafunga kubva, hapana wandinoyambira. Kune vanoda kupinda konzati yangu yekupedzisira, zviri nani kuti vakurumidze nekuti chero konzati inogona kunge iri yekupedzisira.
Nikolai Polezhaev
