A Study Of Kanawa's Singing Art

Kanawa (Kiri Te Kanawa) is a well-known world-renowned soprano, she has a legendary background and life experiences, her temperament with its elegant, mellow voice, drama and the broad road of any role played by all with distinctive artistic personality, she is become to the most beautiful heroine of the 20th century opera's stage and the chief soprano in the world's major opera houses competed to invite, she is hailed as "the world's first lyric soprano."The paper is based on the analysis of a variety of written materials, audio-visual data analysis, music information, to give a comprehensive and detailed analysis and research of Kanawa's singing art. The main contents include she's life experiences, the technical characteristics of the voice and singing the works of different styles, to make a study of Kanawa's style of stage performances, and the inspiration to the China's current vocal arts'development status. This paper is broadly divided into the following sections:Chapter I:The analysis on Knawa's characteristics of singing skills. To carry out the four sections, including the breath, voice, resonance, language etc.Chapter II:The analysis on Kanawa's singing artistic style. Separately from her singing a wide range of styles, to grasp and interpretation of works, the stage performances, and several other aspects to described.Chapter III:The inspiration of Kanawa singing art to China's current vocal art. After the first two chapters analysis, linked out the development of China's actual situation in Bel Canto and its implication.