The music must go on At the age of 60 Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is embarking on a new venture: a charity to help young singers. She talks to David Thomas

The Sunday Telegraph London | March 28, 2004| | Copyright

We've met once before, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and I, and it was not an entirely happy experience. Or, rather, she was not a happy woman.

Dame Kiri arrived flanked by her manager and publicist. She was chewing gum and wearing a fur coat. She looked like a lady gangster from a TV series by Lynda La Plante. And she was about as forthcoming as a gangster interrogated by a cop.

"I don't let my guard down. Ever," she said. "I like to have control of my life."

It was September 1999, and control was precisely what she had recently lost. Having come to London to study in 1966, she made a triumphant Covent ...

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