Tuesday, 14 June 2011, 12:18 pm Press Release: Israeli Embassy
Despite appeals from Palestinian and Jewish activists
groups to Dame Kiri Te Kanawa to abandon her plans to sing
at the Israel festival the soprano performed last Saturday
(the 4th of June) to an ecstatic audience in Jerusalem.
After her performance Dame Kiri quoted that :”she
thoroughly enjoyed her return to Israel and was delighted
with the audiences’ response to her own and Phillip
Rhodes’ performances. She hopes she will have the
opportunity to consider a return to the Israel Festival at
some future date”.
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