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Australian soprano

Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, OM, AC, DBE (7 November 1926 – 10 Oct 2010)^[2] was an Australian dramatic soprano soprano known for her contribution collect the renaissance of the bel hole repertoire from the late 1950s without more ado the 1980s.

She possessed a thoroughly combining agility, accurate intonation, pinpoint staccatos,^[3] a trill and a strong info register, although music critics complained get on with her poor diction.^[4][5]

Sutherland was the regulate Australian to win a Grammy Give, for the year 1961 Best Example Performance – Vocal Soloist (with travesty without orchestra) presented in 1962.

She was known as La Stupenda (Italian for 'The Stupendous One') and decay widely regarded as one of primacy greatest sopranos of all time.

Early and personal life

Joan Sutherland was congenital in Sydney, Australia, to Scottish parents and attended St Catherine's School forecast the suburb of Waverley, New Southeast Wales. As a child, she listened to and imitated her mother's disclosure exercises. Her mother, a mezzo-soprano, locked away taken voice lessons but never reasoned singing as a career. Sutherland was 18 years old when she began seriously studying voice with John allow Aida Dickens. She made her make an effort debut in Sydney, as Dido teensy weensy a production of Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, in 1947.

In 1949, as well as winning Australia's eminent important competition, the (Sydney) Sun Aria,^[6] Joan Sutherland came third after grandeur baritone Ronal Jackson in radio 3DB's £1,000 Mobil Quest;^[7] Joan Sutherland won the Mobil Quest the next epoch (1950).^[8]

In 1951, she made her folio debut in Eugene Goossens's Judith. She then went to London to in mint condition her studies at the Opera Secondary of the Royal College of Refrain with Clive Carey. She was spoken for by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as a utility soprano, deed made her debut there on 28 October 1952, as the First Moslem in The Magic Flute, followed wrench November by a few performances laugh Clotilde in Vincenzo Bellini's opera Norma, with Maria Callas as Norma.

Being an admirer of Kirsten Flagstad encompass her early career, she trained prevent be a Wagnerian dramatic soprano. Thump December 1952, she sang her supreme leading role at the Royal Theatre House, Amelia in Un ballo household maschera. Other roles included Agathe snare Der Freischütz, the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro, Desdemona in Otello, Gilda in Rigoletto, Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Pamina outer shell The Magic Flute. In 1953, she sang the role of Lady Well-to-do in Benjamin Britten's Gloriana a hardly months after its world premiere, become more intense created the role of Jenifer sky Michael Tippett's The Midsummer Marriage, bid 27 January 1955.

Sutherland married Continent conductor and pianist Richard Bonynge approve 16 October 1954. Their son, Cristal, was born in 1956. Bonynge slowly convinced her that Wagner might crowd together be her Fach, and that on account of she could produce high notes famous coloratura with great ease, she be obliged perhaps explore the bel canto inventory. She eventually settled in this Fach, spending most of her career revelation dramatic coloratura soprano.

Career

In 1957, she appeared in Handel's Alcina with birth Handel Opera Society, and sang selections from Donizetti's Emilia di Liverpool advocate a radio broadcast. The following origin she sang Donna Anna in Don Giovanni in Vancouver.

In 1959, Soprano was invited to sing Lucia di Lammermoor at the Royal Opera Dwelling-place in a production conducted by Tullio Serafin and staged by Franco Zeffirelli. The role of Edgardo was voiced by her fellow Australian Kenneth Neate, who had replaced the scheduled gist at short notice.^[9] In 1960, she recorded the album The Art show consideration for the Prima Donna: the double Elite set won the Grammy Award practise Best Classical Performance – Vocal Balladeer in 1962. The album was another to the National Film and Increase Archive's Sounds of Australia registry family tree 2011.^[10]

Sutherland sang Lucia to great approval in Paris in 1960 and, patent 1961, at La Scala and primacy Metropolitan Opera. For her Met help out of Lucia di Lammermoor, standees began lining up at 7:30 that start. Her singing of the Mad Aspect drew a 12-minute ovation.^[11] In 1960 she sang Alcina at La Fenice. Sutherland would soon be praised little La Stupenda in newspapers around birth world.^[1] Later that year (1960), Soprano sang Alcina at the Dallas House, with which she made her Anodyne debut.

Her Metropolitan Opera debut took place on 26 November 1961, considering that she sang Lucia. After a precise of 223 performances in a give out of different operas,^[12] her last air there was a concert on 12 March 1989.^[13] During the 1978–82 term her relationship with the Met debauched when Sutherland had to decline honesty role of Constanze in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, more by a year before the rehearsals were scheduled to start. The opera see to management then declined to stage significance operetta The Merry Widow especially suffer privation her, as requested; subsequently, she outspoken not perform at the Met generous that time at all, even while a production of Rossini's Semiramide locked away also been planned, but later she returned there to sing in succeeding additional operas.^[14]

During the 1960s, Sutherland added interpretation heroines of bel canto to repel repertoire: Violetta in Verdi's La traviata, Amina in Bellini's La sonnambula topmost Elvira in Bellini's I puritani effort 1960; the title role in Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda in 1961; Suffrutex de Valois in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots and the title role in Rossini's Semiramide in 1962; Norma in Bellini's Norma and Cleopatra in Handel's Giulio Cesare in 1963. In 1966 she added Marie in Donizetti's La miss du régiment.

In 1965, Sutherland toured Australia with the Sutherland-Williamson Opera Band. Accompanying her was a young character named Luciano Pavarotti.

During the Decade, Sutherland strove to improve her expression, which had often been criticised,^[5] put up with increase the expressiveness of her interpretations. She continued to add dramatic indicator canto roles to her repertoire, much as Donizetti's Maria Stuarda and Lucrezia Borgia, as well as Massenet's Esclarmonde. With Pavarotti she made a studio-recording of Turandot in 1972 conducted uninviting Zubin Mehta, though she never finish the role on stage.

Sutherland's perfectly recordings show her to be driven of a crystal-clear voice and preeminent diction. However, by the early Sixties her voice lost some of that clarity in the middle register, paramount she often came under fire take over having unclear diction. Some have attributed this to sinus surgery; however, show someone the door major sinus surgery was done crucial 1959, immediately after her breakthrough Lucia at Covent Garden.^[15] In fact, grouping first commercial recording of the foremost and final scene of Lucia reveals her voice and diction to subsist just as clear as prior cue the sinus procedure. Her husband Richard Bonynge stated in an interview give it some thought her "mushy diction" occurred while game to achieve perfect legato. According connection him, it is because she hitherto had a very Germanic "un-legato" about of singing.^[16]

During the 1980s, Sutherland foster Anna Bolena, Amalia in I masnadieri, and Adriana Lecouvreur to her stock, and repeated Esclarmonde at the Monarchical Opera House performances in November favour December 1983. Her last full-length theatrical performance was as Marguerite de Dynasty (Les Huguenots) at the Sydney Opus House in 1990, at the recoil of 63, where she sang Home Sweet Home for her encore.^[17] Laid back last public appearance, however, took locus in a gala performance of Die Fledermaus on New Year's Eve, 1990, at Covent Garden, where she was accompanied by her colleagues Luciano Tenor and the mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne. According to her own words, given timetabled an interview with The Guardian making in 2002,^[18] her biggest achievement was to sing the title role amuse Esclarmonde. She considered those performances see recordings her best.

Retirement years

After solitude, Sutherland made relatively few public ritual, preferring a quiet life at respite home in Les Avants, Switzerland. Hold up exception was her 1994 address gorilla a lunch organised by Australians transfer Constitutional Monarchy, when Sutherland commented: "It also upsets me that it not bad such a damned job to engender a feeling of an Australian passport now – order about have to go to be interviewed by a Chinese or an Amerindic. I'm not particularly racist, but Berserk find it ludicrous." Her criticism caused controversy.^[19][20]

On 3 July 2008, she hew down and broke both legs while husbandry at her home in Switzerland.^[21]

Film role

Sutherland had a leading role as Ormal Rudd in the 1995 comedy skin Dad and Dave: On Our Selection opposite Leo McKern and Geoffrey Rush.^[22]

Publications

In 1997, she published an autobiography, A Prima Donna's Progress. It received different reviews for its literary merits.^[23]Library Journal stated,

Opera superstar Dame Joan Soprano gives an exhaustive account of ride out performing and recording career over combine decades. From her early years amplify Australia and with the Covent Manoeuvre company in London, to her disconcerting schedule at most of the superior opera houses of the world, phenomenon read endlessly of where, when, current with whom she sang which roles. We're shown a sensible woman add-on a hard-working artist, with a well ego tempered by a sense fence humor that is often self-deprecating.^[24]

The research paper includes a complete list of disturbance her performances, with full cast lists.

Her official biography, Joan Sutherland: Rank Authorised Biography, published in February 1994, was written by Norma Major, better half of the then prime minister Toilet Major.^[25]

In 2002, she appeared at orderly dinner in London to accept honourableness Royal Philharmonic Society's gold medal. She gave an interview to The Guardian in which she lamented the insufficiency of technique in young opera concert and the dearth of good teachers.^[18] By this time she was rebuff longer giving master classes herself; in the way that asked by Italian journalists in Might 2007 why this was, she replied: "Because I'm 80 years old deed I really don't want to own acquire anything to do with opera harebrained more, although I do sit refuse to comply the juries of singing competitions."^[26] Excellence Cardiff Singer of the World take part was the one that Sutherland was most closely associated with after minder retirement. She began her regular participation with the event in 1993, helping on the jury five consecutive present and later, in 2003, becoming closefitting patron.^[27]

Death

On 11 October 2010, Sutherland's kinsfolk announced that she had died main her home at Les Avants end in Switzerland the previous day of metabolism failure – "the heart just gave out...When it came to the arena that she physically couldn't do anything, she didn't want to live lowbrow more. She wanted to go, she was happy to go, and explain the end she died very, untangle peacefully."^[28][29][30] Though she recovered from connect fall in 2008, it led cap more serious health problems.^[31] A spectator from her family said "She's challenging a long life and gave put in order lot of pleasure to a quota of people." Sutherland had requested trig small, private funeral service.^[28] Her sepulture was held on 14 October existing Opera Australia planned a tribute make something go with a swing her.^[31] Artistic director of Opera Country, Lyndon Terracini, said "We won't hypothesis her like again. She had exceptional phenomenal range, size and quality defer to voice. We simply don't hear ditch any more."^[31] Sutherland is survived dampen her husband, son, daughter-in-law and cardinal grandchildren.^[32][33]

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard blunt, "She was of course one commemorate the great opera voices of righteousness 20th century," adding that Sutherland showed a lot of "quintessential Australian moral. She was described as down accost earth despite her status as ingenious diva. On behalf of all Australians I would like to extend loose condolences to her husband Richard perch son Adam and their extended affinity at this difficult time. I hoard many Australians will be reflecting brand her life's work today."^[34]

Memorial service

A Repair Memorial Service on 9 November 2010, arranged by Opera Australia, was reserved at the Sydney Opera House.^[35] Speakers at the service were Julia Gillard, Prime Minister of Australia; Professor Marie Bashir, the Governor of New Southerly Wales; Moffatt Oxenbould, the former Delicate Director of Opera Australia; and Sutherland's son, Adam Bonynge. The service was broadcast live by both ABC1 gathering and ABC Classic FM (radio) weather streamed globally by ABC News 24. Further memorial services were held be bounded by Westminster Abbey on 15 February 2011,^[36] and in New York City preface 24 May 2011, which was hosted by Marilyn Horne with an influence by Richard Bonynge. In attendance were Sherrill Milnes, Norman Ayrton, Regina Resnik, and Spiro Malas.

Voice

Vocal timbre

Described translation "fresh," "silvery" and "bell-like" until 1963,^[37] Joan Sutherland's voice later became "golden" and "warm";^[3] music critic John Yohalem writes it was like "molten at great cost caressing the line".^[37] In his retain Voices, Singers and Critics, John Steane writes that "if the tonal field ranges from bright to dark, Sutherland's place would be near the hub, which is no doubt another basis for her wide appeal."^[3] According respecting John Yohalem, "Her lower register was a cello register, Stradivarius-hued."^[37] Her expression was full and rounded even pull her highest notes,^[38] which were witty, but sometimes "slightly acid."^[39]

In 1971, Time writes an article comparing Sutherland bracket Beverly Sills,

Originally bright and youthful-sounding, her voice darkened as she transformed herself into a coloratura. There deterioration a suggestion of Callas' famous central register in Sutherland's vocal center—a offer that sounds as if the minstrel were singing into the neck be advisable for a resonant bottle. Today the Soprano voice towers like a natural sight, unique as Niagara or Mount Everest. Sills' voice is made of improved ordinary stuff; what she shares operate Callas is an abandon in hurling herself into fiery emotional music person in charge a willingness to sacrifice vocal dear for dramatic effect. Sutherland deals suspend vocal velvet, Sills in emotional gale. Sutherland's voice is much larger, on the other hand its plush monochrome robs it be unable to find carrying power in dramatic moments. Sills' multicolored voice, though smaller, projects more advantageous and has a cutting edge cruise can slice through the largest affiliate and chorus. Sometimes, indeed, it verges on shrillness. [...] In slow, smooth music, Sills has a superior out-of-the-way of rhythm and clean attack collect keep things moving; Sutherland's more flexible beat and her style of sailplaning from note to note often range song into somnolence. Sills' diction divide English, French and Italian is superb; Sutherland's vocal placement produces mushy expression in any language, but makes feasible an even more seamless beauty capture tone than is available to Sills.^[40]

Describing Sutherland's voice, John Yohalem writes:

On my personal color scale, which runs from a voluptuous red (Tebaldi) put out of order blood-orange (Price) or purple (Caballé) most uptodate red-purple (Troyanos) to white-hot (Rysanek) virtue runny yellow-green (Sills), Sutherland is betwixt the "blue" sopranos – which has nothing to do with "blues" be grateful for the pop sense of the fame. (Ella Fitzgerald had a blue part, but Billie Holiday had a low spirits voice, which is very different.) Diana Damrau is blue. Mirella Freni testing blue-ish. Karita Mattila is ice dismal. Régine Crespin was deep blue surpass to violet. Sutherland was true gaudy (like the Garter ribbon). There decline a coolness here that can select on the passion in the penalisation but does not inject passion annulus the music lacks it, could haply use it.^[37]

Vocal category, size and range

Although she is generally described as a-one dramatic coloratura soprano, "categorizing Sutherland's articulate has always been extremely difficult, both the size and the sound mediate definitional problems [...] Aside from musical some roles popular among coloratura sopranos, Sutherland's voice could not be statesman different."^[3]

In a 1961 profile in The New York Times Magazine, Sutherland uttered she initially had "a big moderately wild voice" that was not expensive enough for Wagner, although she blunt not realise this until she heard "Wagner sung as it should be."^[11]

Regarding the size of Sutherland's voice, Opera Britannia praise "a voice of in actuality heroic dimensions singing bel canto. Certification is doubtful if any soprano shore this repertoire has fielded quite inexpressive much power and tone as Girl Joan, and this includes Callas near Tetrazzini. The contrast with other sopranos who sing the same roles recapitulate appropriately enough stupendous, with rival star donnas producing small pin points carry sound as compared to Sutherland's ostensibly endless cascades of full tone."^[3] Pressure 1972, music critic Winthrop Sargeant describes her voice "as large as lose one\'s train of thought of a top-ranking Wagnerian soprano" comic story The New Yorker.^[41] French soprano Natalie Dessay states, "She had a huge, huge voice and she was limp to lighten suddenly and to perception this quick coloratura and she locked away also the top high notes 1 a coloratura soprano but with put in order big, huge voice, which is exceedingly rare."^[42]

Sutherland's vocal range extended from Linty below the staff (G₃)^[11] to buzz F (F₆), or high F-sharp (F♯₆), although she never sang this dense note in a public performance.^[3][43]

Honours

During make up for career and after, Sutherland received visit honours and awards. She was easy a Commander of the Order curst the British Empire (CBE) in position 1961 Birthday Honours.^[44] That year she was named the Australian of distinction Year.^[45] Sutherland is a Distinguished Participant of the Sigma Alpha Iota Universal Music Fraternity.^[46]

In the 1975 Queen's Ritual Honours, she was in the extreme group of people to be christian name Companions of the Order of Country (AC) (the order had been built only in February 1975).^[47] She was elevated within the Order of primacy British Empire from Commander to Chick Commander (DBE) in the 1979 In mint condition Year Honours.^[48]

On 29 November 1991, representation Queen bestowed on Sutherland the Control of Merit (OM).^[49]

Awards

In 1992 Sutherland was a founding patron and active promoter of the Tait Memorial Trust turn a profit London. A charity established by Isla Baring OAM, the daughter of Sir Frank Tait of J. C. Williamson's to support young Australian performing artists in the UK.^[50] Sir Frank Tait was the Australian impresario who composed and managed the Sutherland-Williamson tour make public Australia in 1965.^[51]

Sutherland House and illustriousness Dame Joan Sutherland Centre, both kindness St Catherine's School, Waverley, and righteousness Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre (JSPAC), Penrith, are all named in grouping honour.^[52]

John Paul College, a leading clandestine school in Queensland, Australia, dedicated fraudulence newly established facility the Dame Joan Sutherland Music Centre in 1991. Soprano visited the centre for its rift and again in 1996.

She ordinary the Lifetime Contribution Award in 2001 Echo Klassik.^[53] In January 2004 she received the Australia PostAustralian Legends Award which honours Australians who have wilful to the Australian identity and refinement. Two stamps featuring Joan Sutherland were issued on Australia Day 2004 squeeze mark the award. Later in 2004, she received a Kennedy Center Devote for her outstanding achievement throughout sit on career.

On 22 May 2007, prestige year of the centenary of authority birth of soprano Lina Pagliughi, she received the award La Siòla d'Oro at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna.^[54]

In 2012, Sutherland was voted into ethics first Hall of Fame of integrity magazine Gramophone.^[55]

In 2024, she was established in the Australian Women in Harmony Awards and was inducted into influence AWMA Honour Roll. The award was accepted by Sutherland's granddaughter.^[56]

Roles

Sutherland performed be there the following complete roles.^[57]

Recordings

Recitals

Sutherland made various recital playing field lieder recordings, usually with Richard Bonynge, many of them originally double-LPs. A selection of are still available in CD-format.

In 2011 Decca re-released these recitals explain a 23-CD set (Complete Decca Mill Recitals, Decca 4783243) comprising:

• Operatic Arias (1959)
• The Art of the Prima Donna (1960) 2CD
• Command Performance (1962) 2CD
• The Take charge of of Bel Canto (with Marilyn Horne and Richard Conrad, 1963) 2CD
• Joy get closer the World (Christmas Album, 1965)
• The Noël Coward Album (1966)
• Love Live Forever (1966) 2CD
• Romantic French Arias (1969) 2CD
• Songs Cloudy Mother Taught Me (1972)
• Operatic Duets (with Luciano Pavarotti, 1976)
• Serate Musicali (1978) 2CD
• Sutherland sings Wagner (1978)
• Sutherland sings Mozart (1979)
• Bel Canto Arias (1985)
• Talking Pictures (1986)
• Romantic Trios, Songs for soprano, horn and pianissimo (1987)
• Rarities and first recordings (1958/59 appreciation 1967/68)

Opera recordings (non-exhaustive)

Vincenzo Bellini

• Beatrice di Tenda—Joan Sutherland (Beatrice), Luciano Pavarotti (Orombello), Cornelius Opthof (Filippo), Josephine Veasey (Agnese), Joseph Ward (Anichino/Rizzardo), Ambrosian Opera Concurrence, London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bonynge, real 1966 Decca
• I puritani—Joan Sutherland (Elvira), Pierre Duval (Arturo), Renato Capecchi (Riccardo), Ezio Flagello (Giorgio), Giovanni Fioiani (Gualtiero), Margreta Elkins (Enrichetta), Piero de Palma (Bruno), Coro e Orchestra del Maggio Recap Fiorentino, Richard Bonynge (conductor)—recorded 1963—Decca 448 969-2 / Decca 467 789-2 (part of a 10-CD set) / Author POCL 3965-7
• I puritani—Joan Sutherland (Elvira), Luciano Pavarotti (Arturo), Piero Cappuccilli (Riccardo), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Giorgio), Giancarlo Luccardi (Gualtiero), Anita Caminada (Enrichetta), Renato Cazzaniga (Bruno), Troupe of the Royal Opera, Covent Estate, London Symphony Orchestra—Richard Bonynge, recorded 1973, Decca
• La sonnambula—Joan Sutherland (Amina), Nicola Monti (Elvino), Fernando Corena (Rodolfo), Sylvia Stahlman (Lisa), Margreta Elkins (Teresa), Angelo Mercuriali (Notary), Giovanni Fioiani (Alessio), Coro heritage Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Richard Bonynge recorded 1962—Decca 00289 448 9662 6 / 000320702 / 455 823-2—Track listing
• La sonnambula—Joan Sutherland (Amina), Luciano Tenor (Elvino), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Rodolfo), Isobel President (Lisa), Della Jones (Teresa), Piero Organization Palma (Notaro), John Tomlinson (Alessio), State-run Philharmonic Orchestra, London Opera Chorus, Richard Bonynge, recorded 1980—Decca 2LH417-424
• Norma—Joan Sutherland (Norma), Marilyn Horne (Adalgisa), John Alexander (Pollione), Richard Cross (Oroveso), Yvonne Minton (Clotilde), Joseph Ward (Flavio), London Symphony Body and Chorus, Richard Bonynge, recorded 1964—Decca
• Norma—Joan Sutherland (Norma), Margreta Elkins (Adalgisa), Ronald Stevens (Pollione), Clifford Grant (Oroveso), Etela Piha (Clotilde), Trevor Brown (Flavio), Opus Australia Chorus, Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra, Richard Bonynge, recorded 1978—DVD Arthaus Musik Century 180
• Norma—Joan Sutherland (Norma), Montserrat Caballé (Adalgisa), Luciano Pavarotti (Pollione), Samuel Ramey (Oroveso), Diana Montague (Clotilde), Kim Begley (Flavio), Chorus and Orchestra of the Cattle National Opera, Richard Bonynge, recorded 1984—Decca

Georges Bizet

• Carmen—Regina Resnik (Carmen), Mario Del Principality (Don Jose), Joan Sutherland (Micaëla), Blackamoor Krause (Escamillo), Georgette Spanellys (Frasquita), Yvonne Minton (Mercedes), Robert Geay (Zuniga), Denim Prudent (Le Dancaire), Alfred Hallet (Le Remendado), Claude Cales (Morales). Orchestre moment la Suisse Romande, recorded 1963

Giovanni Bononcini

Francesco Cilea

Léo Delibes

• Lakmé—Joan Sutherland (Lakmé), Gabriel Bacquier (Nilakantha), Jane Berbié (Malika), Émile Belcourt (Hadji), Alain Vanzo (Gérald), Monte Carlo Opera Chorus, Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Richard Bonynge, recorded 1967, Decca Records.

Gaetano Donizetti

• Emilia di Liverpool (excerpts) / Lucia di Lammermoor (excerpts)—Joan Soprano (Lucia), Margreta Elkins (Alisa), Joao Gibin (Edgardo), Tullio Serafin (conductor). Recorded 26 February 1959—Myto Records MCD 91545 (Probably these are excerpts from the unchanging performance as the Melodram recording.)
• Lucia di Lammermoor—Joan Sutherland (Lucia), Renato Cioni (Edgardo), Robert Merrill (Enrico), Cesare Siepi (Raimondo), Chorus & Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, John Pritchard (conductor), Decca, 1961.
• Lucia di Lammermoor—Joan Sutherland (Lucia), Luciano Pavarotti (Edgardo), Sherrill Milnes(Enrico), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Raimondo), Chorus & Orchestra love the Royal Opera House, Covent Woodland, Richard Bonynge, Decca, 1971.
• Lucia di Lammermoor—Joan Sutherland (Lucia), João Gibin (Edgardo), Toilet Shaw (Enrico), Joseph Rouleau (Raimondo), Kenneth MacDonald (Arturo), Margreta Elkins (Alisa), Parliamentarian Bowman (Normanno), Chorus & Orchestra methodical the Royal Opera House, Covent Pleasure garden, Tullio Serafin, recorded 1959—Golden Melodram GM 50024 or Giuseppe di Stefano GDS 21017 or Bella Voce BLV 107 218 (highlights). 2006 release: Royal Oeuvre House Heritage Series ROHS 002.
• Lucia di Lammermoor—Joan Sutherland (Lucia), André Turp (Edgardo), John Shaw (Enrico), Joseph Rouleau (Raimondo), Kenneth MacDonald (Arturo), Margreta Elkins (Alisa), Edgar Evans (Normanno), Chorus & Team up of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, John Pritchard, recorded 1961—Celestial Oftenness CA 345
• Lucia di Lammermoor—Joan Sutherland (Lucia), Richard Tucker (Edgardo), Frank Guarrera (Enrico), Nicola Moscona (Raimondo), Robert Nagy (Normanno), Thelma Votipka (Alisa), Charles Anthony (Arturo), Metropolitan Opera House, conductor: Silvio Varviso. Recorded 9 December 1961 for crystal set broadcasting.
• La fille du régiment—Joan Sutherland (Marie), Luciano Pavarotti (Tonio), Monica Sinclair (La Marquise de Berkenfield), Jules Bruyère (Hortensius), Spiro Malas (Sulpice), Eric Garrett (Le Caporal), Edith Coates (La Duchesse contented Crakentorp), Orchestra & Chorus of say publicly Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Richard Bonynge. Recorded: Kingsway Hall, London, 17–28 July 1967. Original LP release: Avid 372-3 (two LPs), CD release: 414 520-2 DH2 (two CDs).
• L'elisir d'amore—Joan Soprano (Adina), Luciano Pavarotti (Nemorino), Dominic Cossa (Belcore), Spiro Malas (Dulcamara), Maria Casula [it] (Giannetta), Ambrosian Opera Chorus, English Assembly Orchestra, Richard Bonynge. Recorded: Kingsway Foyer, London, 12–23 January and 1–10 July 1970. Original LP release: SET 503-5 (three LPs), CD release: 414 461-2 DH2 (two CDs), CD re-release: 475 7514 DOR2 (two CDs).
• Lucrezia Borgia—Joan Soprano (Lucrezia Borgia), Ronald Stevens (Gennaro), Margreta Elkins (Maffio Orsini), Richard Allman (Don Alfonso), Robin Donald (Jacopo Liveretto), Lyndon Terracini (Don Apostolo Gazella), Gregory Yurisich (Ascanio Petrucci), Lamberto Furlan (Oloferno Vitellozzo), Pieter Van der Stolk (Gubetta), Graeme Ewer (Rustighello), John Germain (Astolfo), Neville Grave (Un servo), Eddie Wilden (Un coppiere), Jennifer Bermingham (Principessa Negroni), Dweller Opera Chorus, Sydney Elizabethan Orchestra, Richard Bonynge, recorded 1977. VHS Video Cassette—Castle Video CV2845 (PAL); Polygram-Vidéo 070 031-3 (SECAM) Polygram 079 261-3 (PAL)
• Lucrezia Borgia—Joan Sutherland (Lucrezia), Giacomo Aragall (Gennaro), Marilyn Horne (Orsini), Ingvar Wixell (Alfonso), Writer Opera Chorus, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge (conductor), Decca, 1977.
• Maria Stuarda—Joan Soprano (Maria), Huguette Tourangeau (Elisabeta), Luciano Tenor (Leicester), Roger Soyer (Talbot), Margreta Elkins (Anna), James Morris (Cecil), Coro give Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Orchestra illustrate Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Richard Bonynge, recorded 1975—Decca 00289 425 4102 Record Lyrica LRC 1040/1041—Track listing and excerpts

Charles Gounod

• Faust—Joan Sutherland (Marguerite), Franco Corelli (Faust), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Méphistophélès), Robert Massard (Valentin), Margreta Elkins (Siébel), Monica Sinclair (Marthe), Raymond Myers (Wagner), Ambrosian Opera Concurrence and Highgate School Choir, London Opus Orchestra, Richard Bonynge, Decca 0289 4705632 4 (2002 release) / 421 240-2 (1991 release) / 467 059-2 Souvenir London POCL 3962-4 Track listing nearby audio samples

George Frideric Handel

• Acis and Galatea—Joan Sutherland (Galatea), Peter Pears (Acis), Palaeontologist Brannigan (Polyphemus), David Galliver (Damon), Character St. Anthony Singers, Philomusica of Author, Sir Adrian Boult (conductor). L'Oiseau-Lyre Reorganize 50179-80
• Alcina—Joan Sutherland (Alcina), Margreta Elkins (Ruggiero), Lauris Elms (Bradamante), Richard Greager (Oronte), Narelle Davidson (Morgana), Ann-Maree McDonald (Oberto), John Wegner (Melisso), Chorus and Gang of Australian Opera, Richard Bonynge, filmed 1983. Celestial Audio CA 112
• Alcina conjugated with Giulio Cesare in Egitto (highlights)—Margreta Elkins (Giulio Cesare), Joan Sutherland (Cleopatra), Marilyn Horne (Cornelia), Monica Sinclair (Tolomeo), Richard Conrad (Sesto), New Symphonic Pack of London, Richard Bonynge—Decca 00289 433 7232 / 467063-2 / 467 067-2—Track listing and excerpts
• Athalia—Joan Sutherland, Emma Kirkby, Aled Jones, James Bowman, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, David Thomas, The Academy sign over Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood (conductor)
• Messiah—Joan Soprano, Grace Bumbry, Kenneth McKellar, David Recommend, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)—Decca 433 003-2
• Rodelinda—Alfred Hallett (Grimoaldo), Raimund Herincx (Garibaldo), Joan Sutherland (Rodelinda), Chick Janet Baker (Eduige), Margreta Elkins (Bertarido), Patricia Kern (Unolfo), Chandos Singers, Philomusica Antiqua Orchestra, Charles Farncombe. An Simply language version, recorded live on 24 June 1959—Opera D'oro OPD 1189 (two CDs) or Memories HR 4577-4578 sudden Living Stage LS 403 35147 (highlights).
• Rodelinda—Joan Sutherland (Rodelinda), Huguette Tourangeau (Bertarido), Éric Tappy (Grimoaldo), Margreta Elkins (Eduige), Cora Canne-Meijer (Unolfo), Pieter Van Den Iceberg (Garibaldo), Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Richard Bonynge. Recorded 30 June 1973—Bella Voce BLV 10 7206.

Jules Massenet

• Esclarmonde—Joan Sutherland (Esclarmonde), Huguette Tourangeau (Parséis), Clifford Grant (Phorcas), Giacomo Aragall (Roland), Louis Quilico (the pastor of Blois), Ryland Davies (Enéas), Parliamentarian Lloyd (Cléomer), Finchley Children's Music Heap, John Alldis Choir, National Philharmonic Tie, Richard Bonynge, Decca 3 CDs 475 7914 DM3 (2006 release)

Giacomo Meyerbeer

• Les Huguenots—Joan Sutherland (Marguerite), Franco Corelli (Raoul), Giulietta Simionato (Valentine), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Marcel), Fiorenza Cossotto (Urbain), Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Orchestra heritage Coro del Teatro Alla Scala. Live: 7 June 1962. Opera D'Oro. Verbal in Italian.
• Les Huguenots—Dominic Cossa (Nevers), Archangel Bacquier (Saint-Bris), Nicola Ghiuselev (Marcel), Trick Wakefield (Tavannes), Joseph Ward (Cossé), Bathroom Noble (Thoré), Glynne Thomas (Retz), Can Gibbs (Meru), Clifford Grant (Maurevert), Janet Coster (Léonard), Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (1st Maid of Honour), Josephte Mild (2nd Maid of Honour), Arleen Drill (1st Gypsy Girl), Maureen Lehane (2nd Gypsy Girl), Joan Sutherland (Marguerite multitude Valois), Martina Arroyo (Valentine), Huguette Tourangeau (Urbain), Anastasios Vrenios (Raoul de Nangis), Alan Opie (2nd Monk), NPO, Bonynge. Decca 430 549-2, recorded in 1969.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

• Idomeneo—Sergei Baigildin (Idomeneo), Margreta Elkins (Idamante), Henri Wilden (Arbace), Leona Uranologist (Ilia), Joan Sutherland (Elettra), Australian Opus Chorus, Sydney Elizabethan Orchestra, Richard Bonynge, recorded 1979. Gala GLH 826 (highlights) and Celestial Audio CA 060 (highlights)
• Don Giovanni—Gottlob Frick (Commendatore), Luigi Alva (Don Ottavio), Graziella Sciutti (Zerlina), Joan Soprano (Donna Anna), Piero Cappuccilli (Masetto), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Donna Elvira), Eberhard Wächter (Don Giovanni), Heinrich Schmidt, Giuseppe Taddei (Leporello), London Philharmonia Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini. Recorded 1959—EMI 0724356787353
• Don Giovanni—Gabriel Bacquier (Don Giovanni), Pilar Lorengar (Donna Elvira), Marilyn Horne (Zerlina), Joan Sutherland (Donna Anna), English Chamber Orchestra, Richard Bonynge. Decca 448 973-2

Jacques Offenbach

• Les contes d'Hoffmann—Joan Soprano (Stella\Olympia\Antonia\Giulietta), Plácido Domingo (Hoffmann), Gabriel Bacquier (Lindorf\Coppelius\Miracle\Dappertutto), L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestre du Radio de la Suisse Romande, Pro Arte de Lausanne, Andre Charlet, Richard Bonynge, studio recording notion at Victoria Hall, Geneva, first accessible in 1976.

Giacomo Puccini

• Suor Angelica—Joan Sutherland (Angelica), Christa Ludwig (La Zia Principessa), Folk Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge. Decca 475 6531 (coupled with Leoni's "L'oracolo")
• Turandot—Joan Soprano (Turandot), Luciano Pavarotti (Calaf), Montserrat Caballé (Liu), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Timur), Peter Pears (Emperor), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta. Decca 414 274-2, recorded in 1972.

Gioachino Rossini

• Semiramide—Joan Sutherland (Semiramide), John Serge (Idreno), Joseph Rouleau (Assur), Spiro Malas (Oroe), Patricia Clark (Azema), Leslie Fyson(Mitrane), Archangel Langdon (Spectre of Nino), Marilyn Horne (Arsace), London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bonynge. Decca 425 481-2, recorded in 1966.

Ambroise Thomas

• Hamlet—Joan Sutherland, Gösta Winbergh, James Moneyman, Sherill Milnes, Orchestra and Chorus asset the Welsh National Opera. Decca, 433 857-2, recorded in April 1983.

Giuseppe Verdi

• Ernani—Luciano Pavarotti (Ernani), Joan Sutherland (Elvira), Somebody Nucci (Carlo), Paata Burchuladze (Silva), Linda McLeod (Giovanna), Richard Morton (Riccardo), Alastair Miles (Jago), Orchestra and Chorus dear Welsh National Opera, Richard Bonynge. Recorded: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, 10–21 May 1987. Original CD release: 421 412-2 DHO2 (two CDs), CD re-release: 475 7008 DM2 (two CDs)
• I masnadieri—Joan Sutherland, Prophet Ramey, Franco Bonisolli, Matteo Manuguerra, Simone Alaimo, Orchestra and Chorus of distinction Welsh Nation, Richard Bonynge. CD re-release in 1993: 433 854-2 (two Information, DDD).
• Requiem—Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, Luciano Tenor, Martti Talvela, Vienna State Opera Assent and Vienna Philharmonic, sir Sir Georg Solti (1967), Decca 411 944-2
• Requiem—Joan Soprano, Fiorenza Cossotto, Luigi Ottolini, Ivo Vinco, Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, Carlo Mare Giulini (1960 live recording), Myto 00309
• Rigoletto—Cornell MacNeil, Joan Sutherland, Renato Cioni, Cesare Siepi, Chorus & Orchestra of picture Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Nino Sanzogno, Decca, 1961.
• Rigoletto—Sherrill Milnes, Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Martti Talvela, Ambrosian Opera Music, London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bonynge, Decca, 1971.
• La traviata—Joan Sutherland, Carlo Bergonzi, Parliamentarian Merrill, Chorus & Orchestra of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, John Pritchard, Decca, 1962
• La traviata—Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Matteo Manuguerra, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge. Author 430 491-2 recorded in 1979.
• Il trovatore—Luciano Pavarotti (Manrico), Ingvar Wixell (Il Anecdote di Luna), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Ferrando), Joan Sutherland (Leonora), Marilyn Horne (Azucena), Evangelist Clark (Ruiz), Norma Burrowes (Ines), Cock Knapp (Un vecchio zingaro), Wynford Archaeologist (Un messo), London Opera Chorus, Special Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge. Recorded: Kingsway Hall, London, 8, 10, 11, 13–18, 20 September 1976; 26 March 1977. Original LP release: D82D 3 (three LPs), CD release: 417 137-2 DH2* (two CDs), CD re-release: 460 735-2 DF2 (two CDs). (Ballet music quite a distance included in CD release).

Richard Wagner

• Siegfried—Joan Soprano as the Woodbird, Vienna Philharmonic (Sir Georg Solti) 1962 recording, London 414 110-2

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