Kiri Te Kanawa - Portrait Part 2 | The Sitting
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Channel: KiriOnLine - Dame Kiri Te Kanawa · 2015 · Entertainment
The Royal College of Music has commissioned a portrait of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. This video shows Dame Kiri being painted on the stage of the Britten Theatre by artist Laura Quinn. Also featured is the finished portrait being unveiled to Dame Kiri, Director of the RCM Colin Lawson, RCM Director of Opera Michael Rosewell, and presenter Dame Joan Bakewell at the National Portrait Gallery two weeks later. Dame Kiri was thrilled with the results, declaring the painting to be ‘very special’.
