I cried when Joan Sutherland died and I'm not ashamed to admit that. I have never cried for another celebrity before. There is no singer like her and never will be again I think
Every age brings a new soprano. Check out Yma Sumac. She was a victim of circumstance, despite her limitations, she still shone. I only wish she sang Opera.
I have never been afraid to express my emotions. I have cried at the death of many of my favorite artists. Of them all I wept when I learned of Joan's death; she was my all-time favorite. Unsurpassed! I was at Joan Sutherland's final performance at the Met before she finished her world tour, followed by her actual retirement. She performed Lucia that night. Another of my all-time favorites was in the audience for that performance. I met her at the intermission and got her autograph. She was the first in the audience to stand and lead the applause for Joan after the Mad Scene. Birgit Nilsson. Birgit died five years before Joan on Christmas Day, 25 December 2005. Joan died on 10/10/10.
Marilyn Horne's ability to sing a perfect staccato here, while maintaining her enunciation and pitch, is truly wonderful. And she holds her own w/Dame Joan. I really miss watching them in performance together. Dame Joan has been gone almost 10 years now, and her voice still rings true and clear. The Golden Age of opera is over, sadly.
Very true I agree opera has finished now they are all wear microphones... This is not opera it was using your voice... Listen to Dame Joan Sutherland she could sing over orchestra and all the other singers id she had too.. however she could make the voice as soft as anything too
Don't say that! There will be dozens of belcanto singers with the voices as thrilling as Dame Joan's! The golden age of opera isn't over yet. It isn't over until the mankind exists. We never cease to amaze each other with our talents, so I believe there still is and will be plenty of amazing singers, such as Nadine Sierra, for example.
@@irenesolodova6588 Try and listen to Dame Joan Sutherland sing an Eb-6 as she does on You Tube in a b/w studio recording of "Norma" (the note is at 2:15 of the recording). There is NO ONE singing bel canto presently who can even come close to that note. And she holds it for several measures, to resolve down to the tonic note, which she holds with perfect pitch. The power, precision and length of her singing voice will NEVER be equalled again. And let's not forget the trashy costumes that these so-called "divas" wear on stage now: I don't want to see cleavage. I want to hear strong, convincing voices, coupled with excellent acting skills, to make the roles come to life. I don't care where the singer comes from. I want excellent singing (not a lot of skin showing). Overacting or sleazy costumes cannot ever make up for lousy singing, I don't care who you are.
I had the privilege of performing in opera with Joseph Rouleau several times toward the end of his career. And I was in the audience for Sutherland's first performances of Norma, Lucrezia Borgia and Merry Widow. She and Horne and Rouleau autographed my Semiramide booklet from this recording.
Lei e la Callas sono state toccate degli angeli !!! Adoro la Sutherland ,potentissima ,forte, dolce,ha sostenuto sempre i ruoli anche piu' difficili magistralmente e senza difficolta'!! Senza alcuno sforzo..Stupendaaaaaa!
There was a constant battle between the claques that favored Joan Sutherland, and those who favored Maria Callas. There never was that battle between Joan and Maria. They were friends, and had the highest respect for one another. Before Joan had her Met world debut, while she was still singing minor or second-tier roles at the Royal Opera House in London, there was a performance at Covent Garden in which Maria Callas sang the role of Norma and Joan Sutherland sang the role of Adalgisa.
There are only two Semiramides worth listening to: dame Sutherland on record and June Anderson on video. Both knew exactly what bel canto is about. No one comes even close to them these days.
It is interesting that Sutherland learned trilling as a child imitating those of birds. Her trills are at least on par with them, if not at times better.
@@theon9575 In the bel canto onterview with Horne and Pavarotti it is the latter who says he learnt from imitating the birds. Sutherland states that she just always had the ability to trill so probably just imitated her mother from an early age.
@@theon9575 I found this quote hilarious "Next we'll be hearing that the Archangel handed her a golden larynx one full moon." And helpful to my understanding of "La Stupenda."
What I most like about Sutherland is that her voice is always hitting the notes correctly, like if it was a flute, all of this while having a perfect diction.
TheRicharddeacon123 No she's not my friend. La Superba had a very huge repertoire. Dame Joan was very limited at what she sang but what she sang she sang very well indeed. Sincerely Arnold Bourbon Amaral 1820 🌍🌎🌏🇬🇧🇩🇪🇮🇹🇫🇷🇪🇸🇷🇺💙🎼🎶
Can anybody help me out here. Three fantastic arias, what were they - I've never heard them before, though the last one I felt had shades of Rossini ???
The reason the opera singers now days cannot sing like Dame Joan Sutherland is they are taught to sound all the same instead of showing there own true colours in their voices.. I have now stopped going to the opera because you may as well just get a recording of a bad recording of an old artist then you have the modern singers at there boring best..
Scott Schaare and I'm sad that you're sad and now he's sad but I'm not sad. I've heard them all except for THE GREAT MONSERAT CABALLE. We were expecting our DEAR DANIELLE IN OCTOBER OF 1977. My daughter Danielle when she was around four years old. She fell in love with. the great Romanian lyric soprano Cotrubas. My wife bought the vinyl recording of La Traviata. And that beautiful soprano voice so pure and innocent was all our Danielle needed. We saw her at the Met 1982 my daughter was in heaven. She later said I could listen to her all day Daddy and I tend to agree with her. We can't be held hostage with only two or three Sopranos. The world of Opera is full of great singers. That is why it is the most incredible art form in the world. Sincerely Arnold Bourbon Amaral 1820 🌍🌎🌏🇩🇪🇮🇹🇫🇷🇫🇷🇷🇺🇬🇧👴💙🎼🎶📖🙏
