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Buy this book on-line FINGLETON**, DAVID: : KIRI - A Biography of Kiri Te Kanawa. [Author+subject SIGNED copy.]**LONDON.COLLINS,1982. ISBN 0002163659.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,subject+author SIGNED,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but price-clipped dw/dj.Signed+dedicated by Kiri,in gold ink,to half-title page: "To Will (?) from Kiri" and also signed+ dedicated by author to title page:"Best wishes D Fingleton".SIGNED by both the author+subject.Bright,glossy laminated, subject colour photographic portrait upper wrap,with b/w subject photographic rear wrap.Negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges - no major nicks or tears present.Top edge lightly dust-soiled /spotted, fore-edge less and therefore cleaner; contents bright,tight and clean also.Clean,apart from one small grease spot/stain to rear bds bottom edge,brown paper-covered bds with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,11-192pp [paginated] includes artist/subject SIGNED half-title page,author SIGNED title page,contents+
illus lists,foreword by Colin Davis,a preface,12 chapters,32pp b/w contemporary photographs,16pp apiece,between pp64/5 and pp128/29 respectively,acknowledgements and an index.
The story of Kiri Te Kanawa's rise to fame from a Maori background in New Zealand to the world of international opera - now acclaimed as one of the
great operatic stars,she is also known to millions for her singing at the royal wedding in 1981.Kiri Te Kanawa is the great operatic discovery of our time.In 1971 when,as an unknown singer from New Zealand,she sang the role of the
Countess in The Marriage of Figaro at Covent Garden,it was clear that a star of immense talent had been revealed.
This biography traces her life from early days as a Maori girl from New Zealand's North Island, the struggles and difficulties of her operatic training when she came to Britain having abandoned a flourishing Antipodean career as a popular singer and recording artist.Then came her
eventual overnight success,first at Covent Garden,then at New York's Metropolitan Opera in Othello,and her subsequent successes in the world's great opera houses.It also looks at her widely admired performance in Joseph Losey's controversial film of Mozart's Don Giovanni.The people who were instrumental in helping her are well known names - Joan Sutherland,Richard Boynge,George Solti, Peter Hall,John Tooley.The honour paid to her in being invited to sing at the marriage of Prince Charles and the Lady Diana Spencer in St Paul's Cathedral brought her to the notice and admiration of countless television viewers throughout the world.Kiri Te Kanawa is not only beautiful in voice and appearance;she has an irresistible vivacity and sense of humour offstage.She is married,the devoted mother of two young children and is a keen enthusiast on the golf course.This book follows the musical development of her voice but also tells the human story behind the career of an exceptional singer who has won the hearts of millions.In the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 1982, Kiri Te Kanawa was created a Dame of the British Empire.
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