 Dame Joan Sutherland OM, AC, DBE (7th November 1926 - 10th October 2010) was an Australian opera singer noted for her contribution to the bel canto revival of the 1950s and 1960s.
Coming to singing relatively late, she trained first in her native Australia and subsequently in London at the Royal College of Music and was hired as a house soprano at Covent Garden soon after graduation. Initially marked out as a potential dramatic soprano, her early roles for the company included Helmwige, Aida, Mozart's Countess and Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera, but under the tutelage of the bel canto enthusiast and fellow Australian Richard Bonynge, (whom she later married) Sutherland began to work privately on the dramatic coloratura roles of Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini. In 1959, she was invited to sing Lucia di Lammermoor at the Royal Opera House in a production conducted by Tullio Serafin and staged by Franco Zeffirelli. It was a breakthrough for Sutherland's career, and as soon as she finished the famous Mad Scene, she was a star. She and Bonynge went on to resurrect many gems of the bel canto repertoire together in all the major international opera-houses: particular triumphs included the lead roles in Bellini's La Sonnambula, I Puritani and Beatrice di Tenda and Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment and Lucrezia Borgia, as well as French obscurities such as Massenet's Esclarmonde and Le Roi de Lahore.
Made a Dame of the British Empire in 1979, she retired from the operatic stage in 1990, but continued to sit on competition juries well into her eighties and was particularly associated with Cardiff Singer of the World, with which she was closely involved from 1993 to 2009. She made many studio recordings, mostly for the Decca/London label, and was hailed as 'La Stupenda' and the 'Voice Of The Century'. She died at her home in Switzerland on 10th October 2010. |
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Joan Sutherland (Violetta Valéry), Miti Truccato Pace (Flora Bervoix), Dora Carral (Annina), Carlo Bergonzi (Alfredo Germont), Robert Merrill (Giorgio Germont), Giorgio Germont (Gastone), Paolo Pedani (Barone Douphol), Silvio Maionica (Marchese d’Obigny), Giovanni Foiani (Dottore Grenvil), Angelo Mercuriali (Giuseppe), Tenero Meridionale (Domestico di Flora) Orchestra e coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Sir John Pritchard La Traviata – the ultimate opera of love and loss – is a great favourite of opera-goers. To coincide with Opera Australia’s Traviata production in the spectacular setting of “Opera on the Harbour”, Eloquence releases Joan Sutherland’s first recording of La Traviata, complete on 2 CDs. It is for many her greatest recorded portrayal of the doomed heroine Violetta. Her Alfredo is the ‘simply supreme’ (Gramophone) Carlo Bergonzi and Sir John Pritchard conducts a ‘most persuasive, well-balanced and well-timed account’ (Gramophone) of this magnificent opera. | 
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| |  | Recorded in 1976 in the Sydney Opera House
Joan Sutherland (Lakme), Henri Wilden (Gerald), Clifford Grant (Nilakantha), Huguette Tourangeau (Mallika), Isobel Buchanan (Ellen) & John Pringle (Frederick) Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra & Australian Opera Chorus, Richard Bonynge |
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Joan Sutherland (Leonora), Lauris Elms (Azucena), Kenneth Collins (Manrico), Donald Shanks (Ferrando) & Jonathan Summers (Di Luna) Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra & Australian Opera Chorus, Richard Bonynge (conductor) & Elijah Moshinsky (director) Fiery and full-blooded, Il Trovatore is a masterpiece of obsession, madness and revenge which binds together a mysterious gypsy woman, two mortal enemies and a woman who must betray her love or risk death. 'Dramatically and vocally stunning' (The Australian) 'The Australian Opera has assembled one of its best casts under the baton of Richard Bonynge' (The Times). Recorded in 1983 |
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Joan Sutherland (Lucia), Luciano Pavarotti (Edgardo), Sherrill Milnes (Enrico), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Raimondo), Ryland Davies (Arturo), Huguette Tourangeau (Alisa), Pier Francesco Poli (Normanno) Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Richard Bonynge “Though some of the girlish freshness of voice which marked the 1961 recording had disappeared by the 1971 set, Sutherland's detailed understanding was intensified. Power is there as well as delicacy, and the rest of the cast is first-rate.” Penguin Guide, 2010 edition *** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Recorded 26th February 1959
Joan Sutherland (Lucia), John Shaw (Enrico), Margreta Elkins (Alisa), Joseph Rouleau (Raimondo), Kenneth MacDonald (Arturo), Robert Bowman (Normanno) Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Tullio Serafin This is Sutherland’s first Lucia and is now back in the catalogue in splendid sound. This performance was at Covent Garden in 1959. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Recorded in 1977
Joan Sutherland (Lucrezia Borgia), Ron Stevens (Gennaro), Robert Allman (Don Alfonso), Margreta Elkins (Maffio Orsini), Robin Donald (Jacopo Liveretto), Lyndon Terracini (Don Apostolo Gazella), Gregory Yurisich (Ascanio Petrucci), Lamberto Furlan (Oloferno Vitellozzo) Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra & Australian Opera Chorus, Richard Bonynge “A lyrical, masterly example of Donizetti’s art that delights the ear endlessly....Sutherland makes the low key arias breathtaking vehicles for the most ravishing singing one is likely to hear on any opera stage in the world” The Financial Review | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Joan Sutherland “La Stupenda”
Arditi: | Il Bacio with Instrumental Accompaniment | Donizetti: | Ancor non giunse! ... Regnava nel silenzio…Quando rapito in estasi (from Lucia di Lammermoor) Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Nello Santi Ardon gli incensi (from Lucia di Lammermoor) Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Nello Santi Ah! tardai troppo...O luce di quest'anima (from Linda di Chamounix) Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Nello Santi | Gounod: | Ah! Je veux vivre dans ce rêve (from Roméo et Juliette) rchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli | Thomas, Ambroise: | A vos jeux, mes amis (from Hamlet) | Verdi: | È strano! è strano!...Ah! fors è lui (from La traviata) Caro nome (from Rigoletto) Mercè, dilette amiche 'Bolero' (from I Vespri Siciliani) Mia madre aveva...Piangea cantando...Ave Maria (from Otello) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli |
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| |  | The Opera Album 2011
Bizet: | Votre toast je peux vous le rendre 'Toreador Song' (from Carmen) Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) L'amour est un oiseau rebelle 'Habanera' (from Carmen) Tatiana Troyanos (mezzo) Au fond du temple saint (from Les Pêcheurs de Perles) Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass) La fleur que tu m'avais jetée (from Carmen) Plácido Domingo (tenor) Les tringles des sistres tintaient (from Carmen) Magdalena Kozená (mezzo) | Delibes: | Lakmé: Dôme épais (Flower Duet) Joan Sutherland (soprano), Jane Berbié (mezzo) | Donizetti: | Una furtiva lagrima (from L'elisir d'amore) Juan Diego Flórez (tenor) | Dvorak: | Mesícku na nebi hlubokém 'Song to the Moon' (from Rusalka) Pilar Lorengar (soprano) | Gluck: | Che faro' senza Euridice? (from Orfeo ed Euridice) Andreas Scholl (countertenor) | Gounod: | Ah! Je veux vivre dans ce rêve (from Roméo et Juliette) Renée Fleming (soprano) Gloire immortelle de nos aïeux (from Faust) Richard Bonynge | Handel: | Lascia ch'io pianga (from Rinaldo) Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) Ombra mai fu (from Serse) Andreas Scholl (countertenor) | Leoncavallo: | Vesti la giubba (from I Pagliacci) Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) | Mozart: | Der Vogelfänger bin ich, ja (from Die Zauberflöte) Hermann Prey (baritone) La ci darem la mano (from Don Giovanni) Ingvar Wixell (baritone), Mirella Freni (soprano) Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen (from Die Zauberflöte) Patricia Petibon (soprano) | Offenbach: | Barcarolle (from Les Contes d'Hoffmann ) Joan Sutherland (soprano), Huguette Tourangeau (mezzo) Le jugement de Pâris - Au Mont Ida (from La Belle Hélène) Joseph Calleja (tenor) | Puccini: | Quando me'n vo (from La Bohème) Anna Netrebko (soprano) E lucevan le stelle (from Tosca) Andrea Bocelli (tenor) Humming Chorus (from Madama Butterfly) Giuseppe Sinopoli Nessun dorma (from Turandot) Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) Vissi d'arte (from Tosca) Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) Si, mi chiamano Mimi (from La Bohème) Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) Signore, ascolta! (from Turandot) Montserrat Caballé (soprano) Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (from La Rondine) Renata Tebaldi (soprano) | Rossini: | Una voce poco fa (from Il barbiere di Siviglia) Teresa Berganza (mezzo) Largo al factotum (from Il barbiere di Siviglia) Leo Nucci (baritone) | Saint-Saëns: | Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix (from Samson et Dalila) Marilyn Horne (mezzo) | Verdi: | Anvil Chorus (from Il Trovatore) Sir Georg Solti La donna è mobile (from Rigoletto) Roberto Alagna (tenor) Libiamo, ne' lieti calici (from La Traviata) Plácido Domingo (tenor), Ileana Cotrubas (soprano) Di quella pira (from Il trovatore) José Carreras (tenor) Sempre libera (from La Traviata) Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) Questa o quella (from Rigoletto) Rolando Villazón (tenor) Va, pensiero (from Nabucco) Silvio Varviso Celeste Aida (from Aida) Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) | Wagner: | Mild und leise 'Isolde's Liebestod' (from Tristan und Isolde) Birgit Nilsson (soprano) |
This magnificent collection features the some of the greatest opera stars of all time: Cecilia Bartoli, Anna Netrebko, Bryn Terfel, Renée Fleming, Andrea Bocelli Luciano Pavarotti, Dame Joan Sutherland, Plácido Domingo, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and José Carreras. With a carefully chosen selection of perennially popular arias, duets and choruses, this enchanting collection creates the perfect introduction to opera. With 40 tracks and over 2½ hours of music this collection is outstanding value for money. Includes Pavarotti’s classic recording of the most popular opera aria of all, Puccini’s ‘Nessun dorma’. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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