No Ordinary Dame; Kiri Te Kanawa: Choice Opera Roles Have Diminished, but Not Her Talent

The Washington Post | October 13, 2002| | Copyright

Hollywood thinks it has a problem: Where are the great roles for a woman old enough not to want to play the ingenue but young enough to still be in the game? The Sigourney Weaver or Susan Sarandon roles? The roles that reassure baby boomers that they're still sexy and vital even if they've fallen out of the most desirable demographic?

It's worse in opera. Consider the dilemma for a singer like soprano Kiri Te Kanawa who, at 58, is still strikingly attractive and still singing, yet is not so addicted to the stage that she has the need or desire to take on the mother/crone/nurse roles. When ...

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