As pointed out, this was not Dame Joan's final operatic performance. I believe this performance was from the mid 1980s. Dame Joan's final operatic role was as Marguerite de Valois in Les Huguenots in October 1990 at the Sydney Opera House. She was originally scheduled to sing Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus in December 1990 at Covent Garden, but she bowed out once she saw a model of the staging that she would not be able to maneuver ...and she also wrote in her autobiography that she doubted she could have sung the role as well as she wanted to by that point. Instead, she appeared in the party scene as a guest. In her speech she said "I wanted to go out when you still have a somewhat pleasant memory of me instead of saying when will the old girl just stop?"
Nem tudom ki volt képes rávenni Joan Sutherland-et arra, hogy betanulja magyarul a Csárdást, de nagyon jól tette az biztos. Életében a legnagyobbak közt is csillag volt mindig, most amióta már nincs köztünk a felvételei hallgatása is mindig örömöt jelentenek a zeneszeretők számára. Örök hála érte.
This is not her farewell performance. Joan, Pavarotti & Maralyn Horne were guests in Act II and sang then. She did not play a role in the operetta in her farewell performance.
This is the famous Czardas -sung in Hungarian! The rest of the opera is sung in English, but here (with a nod to Johann Strauss' Austria-Hungary) La Stupenda sings the difficult aria in an even more difficult langauge. Brava! RIP.
A MI ESTA MUJER ME GUSTA HASTA CALLADA.......ASI QUE MAS NO PUEDO DECIR DE MI ADORACION POR ELLA............POR MI PUEDE TENER MAS AÑOS QUE RAMSES.........O ESTAR EN EL MAS ALLA........PARA MI ESTA MUJER EXISTIRA SIEMPRE EN MI CEREBRO COMO ALGO MUY VIVO Y ROTUNDAMENTE MARAVILLOSO.........LA NOTA SUPERLATIVA DEL ANIMO Y LA VIDA...............EL COLMO DE LA LOCURA DE MIS NEURONAS..........Y SI ALGUIEN ME LO QUIERE REBAJAR LE CORTO EL ROLLO......A MI MANERA.............ARGUMENTANDO CON EL VERBO
Actually this was not her farewell performance, she did not perform a role in the" Die Fledermaus" on New Year's Eve 1990, Dame Joan, Pavarotti and Marilyn Horne were the entertainment part. They each sang a solo and then each a duet with Dame Joan, but her voice was no longer the same as it is in this performance.
