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Dame Kiri Te Kanawa — the Julie Andrews of opera — has announced her retirement from public performance after a career that has spanned almost five decades. The world-renowned soprano, 73, said she had stopped performing a year ago but had not revealed her decision until now. Te Kanawa told the BBC it had taken her five years “to say the goodbye in my own mind” but wanted to decide “when it was going to be the last note”. Her final performance was a concert in the Australian city of Ballarat last October: “Before I’d gone on, I said, right, this it. And that was the end.” She said she did not miss

singing. “I’ve had such an amazing career. I don’t want to hear my voice – it is in the past. When I’m teaching young singers and hearing beautiful young fresh voices, I don’t want to put my voice next to theirs.”

by Brendan Lemon | 9/18/17 | Leave a comment |