Kiri Te Kanawa Retirement Village
Care is not an ‘add on’ at a Ryman village, it is built into the fabric of our villages from the very beginning. It’s comforting for couples and friends to know they can still be near each other even if their health needs are different.
Kiri Te Kanawa care centre offers a range of care options including resthome, hospital and specialist dementia care. Like all aspects of our villages, we constantly look for ways to improve both the care we provide and the innovation behind it. Care is customised using our myRyman Care app and residents love the food in our seasonal Delicious menu, which is prepared fresh on site by village chefs.
Kiri Te Kanawa is one of over 90% of established Ryman villages that have been awarded 4-year certification by the Ministry of Health. It’s recognised as the ‘gold standard’ in care.
Each Ryman village is named in honour of a Kiwi or Aussie trailblazer: Anthony Wilding, Lady Diana Isaac, Evelyn Page. They pushed further and set the bar high for others to aspire to. In creating communities that challenge the expectations of ageing, Ryman villages are also setting the bar high. They’re demonstrating that a retirement lifestyle brimming with new experiences, connections and fulfilment is something we should aspire to. Our Kiwi and Aussie namesakes represent the measure of inspiration, while Ryman villages represent the measure of retirement living.
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
A celebrity in the international music world, New Zealand opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa achieved a remarkable number of accolades throughout her career.
Ambitious and determined, Te Kanawa won a grant to study in London early in her career. While there she enrolled in the London Opera Centre. She went on to regularly perform on stage where she was known for captivating audiences. Her recording of the “Nuns’ Chorus” from the Strauss operetta Casanova was the first gold record produced in New Zealand.
In 1973, Dame Kiri was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for her services to music. Committed to the future of opera and passionate about fostering music in Aotearoa, she founded the Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation with the vision “that talented young New Zealand singers and musicians with complete dedication to their art may receive judicious and thoughtful mentoring and support to assist them in realising their dreams”.
Now retired, Dame Kiri’s final performance took place in Ballarat, Australia in 2016. To discover more about her exceptional achievements, read David Fingleton’s Kiri Te Kanawa: A Biography.
