She looks so beautiful and classy here. And although filmed the year before her retirement from the stage, her voice was still in good shape with impressive coloratura and secure high notes.
brings tears to my eyes to watch this. She was the reason I loved Opera since I first saw her in 1961. No one better before or since. Truly the most beautiful voice in the world.
This was wonderful to hear..Joan looked beautiful even though some of the singing was a little labored. She did sing some wonderful accurate coloratura - and some excellent top notes - as always. This video is wonderful to have!
She looked really fabulous here. Her hair, makeup and gown were at all time highs for her. My favorite is the aria from The Merry Widow where she can let out her true outgoing, cheerful personality and she really shines. She was at her best up to around 60, but still she sang Sempre Libera wonderfully only lowered to D6, which is still great at 62. She was a wonder. I actually prefer her high notes around 60 to those around 30... they got bigger and had more steel. I think the best singing here was the slow parts leading up to An Non Giunge, the second aria. Here she sounded like she was still in her 40's instead of near the end of her career.
I prefer not to comment. It is still one of the greatest singers (in her repertoire) who, at the age of 62, got involved with arias and cabalettas that were not exactly simple. Great example of vocal technique and in some parts difficult to overcome. With conductor and orchestra at his service.
Que gran video de Madame Sutherland solo está grandísima Artista podía hacer este tipo de conciertos siempre con una impecable colección del repertorio a Cantar y un buen equilibrado y armonioso recorrido por los diferentes registros de su impecable voz vemos aquí la elegancia y la maestría de una artista que hace en este concierto que nada parezca complicado ni riguroso porque solo ella tenía ese don gracias Por tanto alto Madame Sutherland usted supo iluminar y resplandecer a este arte que siempre le estará agradecido desde Madrid un fiel seguidor de toda su carrera
CANTA EN TODAS LAS NOTAS...........................BAJAS .....MEDIAS.Y ALTAS...............CON UN GUSTO..................ESTREMECEDORAMENTE EXQUISITO...............................LA SUBIDA VOCAL...............EN TESITURA.....................DIVINA.................HASTA LOS AUDOS............ESPECTACULARES......................SON .........EXUBERANTEMENTE.......HERMOSOS..........................SU COMPORTAMIENTO VOCAL......ES EXTREMADAMENTE ........................PERFECTO..........Y LLENOS DE HERMOSURAS....................................
JAMAS UNA ARTISTA HA SIDO TAN ADORADA COMO A ELLA.........................Y SOLO TENIA............UN PEQUEÑO..............DON..........................UNA GRAN VOZ............................NEBULOSICA.....Y MISTERIOSA.....APARTE DE PODEROSA..................JUNTO A SU PERSONALIDAD...............................HUMANA SENSIBLE....................................
EL MISTERIO DE LA HERMOSURA........VOCAL...DE LA BELLEZA...........INTERPRETATIVA.....................Y ESE PEQUEÑO RITO....................DE QUE DE AQUI NO ME BAJO NI QUE ME MATEN..................................Y MURIO 20 AÑOS DESPUES.....................VIEJA............LUCHADORA...........................LLENA DE GLORIA HASTA EL FINAL.......................PERO DICIENDO ADIOS A LA VIDA........................DESPUES DE TRANSFORMAR AL MUNDO CON SU CANTO DE REINA DEL ARTE................EN TODA LA HISTORIA DE LA MUSICA.........................
ELLA SIEMPRE BORDA.........................CON UNA INTELIGENCIA VOCAL PRODIGIOSA.........DEJAR EL ARIA INTACTA..................Y ENCIMA LLENARLA DE GLORIA...............A PESAR DE LOS AÑOS...........SIEMPRE.....EN ELLA SURGE LA NOVEDAD DEL MISTERIO..............
os fijais cual es el sonido de esa voz..............lo escuchais bien.????????????----------------es una pasada.....de cobertura vocal......................incluso en el paso del tiempo..seguia siendo..............abrumadora.cantando......es una cosa imposible..................el encanto del canto.en un solo ser...............es una pasada total....que todabia intento digerir...........y por mi encantado...............
Astonishingly Dame Joan sings 'Ah non giunge' in original key. Still it is not so easy to listen to her struggling from squeezing out high notes and especially C''' staccati... Still, it is very rare and precious video. Many thanx to mahavishnu1001.
JAMAS UNA MUJER COMO ESTA......................................UN SER HUMANO COMO ESTE..............................JAMAS DE LOS JAMASES.....................
I played in this. I remember it well and no, not at her best , this was one of her retirement tours. We also did Carnegie Hall with her. A hugely humble and wonderful woman and at her best one of the very best. I did Traviata with her many years before this and she most certainly was La Stupenda. Loved her.
@@MrStpendouslvforjo Well, I never worked with her in the theatre, that's a different orchestra. I played french horn in the Sydney Symphony, and was playing in this concert. She sang with us in gala concerts once in a while, and was always excellent and very professional.
@@maestro15552 the Elizabethan Trust orchestra was the Australian Opera/Ballet orchestra,,,later changed names,,,even in 2020 the Orchestra name is still evolving. Lots of politics behind the scenes,,,,rarely did Bonynge get an invite from the ABC. We hear rumours but who’s to know why. One day a good book will be written.
OIRLA CANTAR....ES UN EXTASIS.............................MENTAL...............................INCREIBLEMENTE............................FUERA DE ESTE MUNDO EN TODOS LOS SENTIDOS.........................PUES ELLA SABE LLEVAR A TODAS SUS EDADES............A LA BELLEZA MAXIMA................SEGUN SU CAPACIDAD EN EDAD...........Y SIEMPRE CONSIGUE DAR PUNTOS NUEVOS....AL ARIA CANTADA.............CUANDO LOS DEMAS Y LAS DEMAS NI EN LA PRIMERA INTERPRETACION DAN LA CLAVE.........................
cantar estas arias.........con esa intensidad............aplastante..........poderosa...........despues de mas de 40 años...................es que si no es que esta grabado.........nadie se lo podria creer...................
ya lo he comentado otras veces.en multiples...............ocasiones.de diferentes artistas de estilos varios.........pero la presencia de esta mujer.....impone..................IMPONE.....impone..........de maravillosa que es y era y sera.................para siempre..........un ser especial.............con el don especial de enamorar.....................porque su canto.........es toda una estructura vocal........de un enigma.............propio...............que tan solo ella exalaba.........desde que se ponia en el escenario .............ante el publico........una joya.............de ser humano.........................y eso hay que saber apreciarlo.....................un ser encantador..........y otra cosa es que sea la mejor cantante del mundo y de todos los tiempos....................
que es la mejor cantante del mundo.................diga lo que diga ni alguien.ni nadie...........tampoco quiero jugar con las palabras en español..............para mi.............y solo para mi..............yo considero a esta mujer........la mejor cantante del mundo y de todos los tiempos.....................en todo el grosor de su carrera y de su canto y de todas sus edades...........y demostrado esta........................en todas sus apariciones..............y grabaciones.......................
I distinctly recall rushing home so as not to miss too much of the live broadcast of this concert on television. I think I missed the Traviata but arrived home in time for Sonnambula and the remaining selections. What impressed me then as now is the long recitative in the Sonnambula piece in addition to the arias. Perhaps not her best, as others have stated, but I heard Sutherland both in her prime and her later years, and I can vouch that even at this late date, when I heard her live in the theater, she was thrilling and the wide vibrato was not as noticeable as it appears on recording and on video. Moreover, she had physical and vocal stamina including in her later concerts and she never shied away from the most challenging arias.
una luchadora nata...............con una voz indiscutiblemente unica.grandiosa...............que encima tuvo que enfrentarse a multitudes problemas de salud..........que gracias a dios no fueron obstaculo para cumplir 83 años y morir.como una diosa.................y tampoco fue obstaculo para ser la voz mas grandiosa del mundo..............
el ejemplo mas grande...del poder en todos los tiempos..............................maravilla de las maravillas.............un poder sin edad................es lujuria cantando...........................un pecado ..entre comillas..maravilloso.....................
callas.........era intensa.............tragica.............fantastica.............pero sutherland...........es imponente.............deliciosa...............poderosa...............y un icono de poderio ............sin parangon............
+andrea marini Yes, this is Lehar: "Ballet Music from the Merry Widow", music originally adapted by John Lanchbery from the operetta for a production at the Australian Ballet in the 1970s. It is also available at this channel as a separate video
There are still some great moments here, despite the late date of her career. The operetta pieces are lovely. The bel canto pieces, well, she would've been better to leave those out.
She still had moments of greatness, even in her 60s. This however is not one of them. Ive never heard a recording of her sounding worse. I wonder if she had a cold or something here?
The end of the Sonnambula cabaletta @ 21:30 is really sub-par and it's the worst thing I've ever heard her sing. This is evidence that she should have retired by this date, at least from this repertoire, which Bonynge has said that she wanted to do well before 1990. This proves Joan right. When sopranos get that faded 'old lady' sound, it's time to stop. The look on her face immediately after the cabaletta projects a certain (to me) sad disappointment on her part. Bonynge should have listened. Of course otherwise Sutherland is a radiant piece of vocal heaven fallen to earth. Sutherland = divine
She still sounds very good in "Ah non credea mirarti", with flowing and still mostly even tone and good legato. The cabaletta is way too high and agile for her at this late moment in her career. Even "Sempre libera", which is a little less "leggero", sounds much better. The fact she still sounds rock solid and musically excellent (wide vibrato in the middle notwithstanding) in arias with lower tessitura and less agile melodies suggest to me the voice was still in good shape, but was definitely too heavy and dark to be as convincing as it were in coloratura repertory.
She was still capable of producing great music even at the end of her career. But she was no longer reliably great. I agree, this is the worst i have hear her sound. Knowing how self critical she was, i can feel her disappointment just looking at her.
