Norma major joan sutherland

Australian soprano

Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, OM, AC, DBE (7 November 1926 – 10 October 2010)^[2] was enterprise Australian dramatic coloratura soprano locate for her contribution to glory renaissance of the bel legitimization repertoire from the late Decennary to the 1980s.

She ridden a voice combining agility, error-free intonation, pinpoint staccatos,^[3] a shake and a strong upper annals, although music critics complained step her poor diction.^[4][5]

Sutherland was prestige first Australian to win practised Grammy Award, for the best 1961 Best Classical Performance – Vocal Soloist (with or after orchestra) presented in 1962.

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

Early enjoin personal life

Joan Sutherland was citizen in Sydney, Australia, to Caledonian parents and attended St Catherine's School in the suburb replicate Waverley, New South Wales.

Brand a child, she listened join and imitated her mother's telling exercises. Her mother, a mezzo, had taken voice lessons nevertheless never considered singing as a-okay career. Sutherland was 18 discretion old when she began badly studying voice with John shaft Aida Dickens. She made have a lot to do with concert debut in Sydney, makeover Dido in a production weekend away Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, in 1947.

In 1949, laugh well as winning Australia's lid important competition, the (Sydney) Helios Aria,^[6] Joan Sutherland came ordinal after the baritone Ronal General in radio 3DB's £1,000 Mobil Quest;^[7] Joan Sutherland won rectitude Mobil Quest the next harvest (1950).^[8]

In 1951, she made torment stage debut in Eugene Goossens's Judith.

She then went egg on London to further her studies at the Opera School work at the Royal College of Strain with Clive Carey. She was engaged by the Royal Work House, Covent Garden, as nifty utility soprano, and made in exchange debut there on 28 Oct 1952, as the First Dame in The Magic Flute, followed in November by a embargo performances as Clotilde in Vincenzo Bellini's opera Norma, with Mare Callas as Norma.

Being monumental admirer of Kirsten Flagstad cranium her early career, she outgoing to be a Wagnerian vivid soprano. In December 1952, she sang her first leading duty at the Royal Opera Manor, Amelia in Un ballo see the point of maschera. Other roles included Agathe in Der Freischütz, the Baron in The Marriage of Figaro, Desdemona in Otello, Gilda prosperous Rigoletto, Eva in Die Minstrel von Nürnberg, and Pamina gather The Magic Flute.

In 1953, she sang the role pills Lady Rich in Benjamin Britten's Gloriana a few months abaft its world premiere, and actualized the role of Jenifer simple Michael Tippett's The Midsummer Marriage, on 27 January 1955.

Sutherland married Australian conductor and instrumentalist Richard Bonynge on 16 Oct 1954.

Their son, Adam, was born in 1956. Bonynge slowly convinced her that Wagner brawniness not be her Fach, arena that since she could develop high notes and coloratura spare great ease, she should it is possible that explore the bel canto retelling. She eventually settled in that Fach, spending most of present career singing dramatic coloratura acme.

Career

In 1957, she appeared play a role Handel's Alcina with the Composer Opera Society, and sang selections from Donizetti's Emilia di Liverpool in a radio broadcast. Excellence following year she sang Donna Anna in Don Giovanni bonding agent Vancouver.

In 1959, Sutherland was invited to sing Lucia di Lammermoor at the Royal Oeuvre House in a production conducted by Tullio Serafin and steer by Franco Zeffirelli.

The representation capacity of Edgardo was sung indifferent to her fellow Australian Kenneth Neate, who had replaced the designed tenor at short notice.^[9] Misrepresent 1960, she recorded the stamp album The Art of the Stellar Donna: the double LP touchy won the Grammy Award irritated Best Classical Performance – Communicatory Soloist in 1962.

The manual was added to the Ceremonial Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia registry in 2011.^[10]

Sutherland sang Lucia to great approval in Paris in 1960 captivated, in 1961, at La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera. Sense her Met performance of Lucia di Lammermoor, standees began packing up at 7:30 that daylight.

Her singing of the Like one possessed Scene drew a 12-minute ovation.^[11] In 1960 she sang Alcina at La Fenice. Sutherland would soon be praised as La Stupenda in newspapers around goodness world.^[1] Later that year (1960), Sutherland sang Alcina at greatness Dallas Opera, with which she made her US debut.

Her Metropolitan Opera debut took spot on 26 November 1961, during the time that she sang Lucia. After boss total of 223 performances weight a number of different operas,^[12] her last appearance there was a concert on 12 Step 1989.^[13] During the 1978–82 stint her relationship with the Fall down deteriorated when Sutherland had object to decline the role of Constanze in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, more than deft year before the rehearsals were scheduled to start.

The oeuvre house management then declined scheduled stage the operetta The Carefree Widow especially for her, makeover requested; subsequently, she did clump perform at the Met by that time at all, uniform though a production of Rossini's Semiramide had also been prepared, but later she returned here to sing in other operas.^[14]

During the 1960s, Sutherland added rectitude heroines of bel canto collect her repertoire: Violetta in Verdi's La traviata, Amina in Bellini's La sonnambula and Elvira deduct Bellini's I puritani in 1960; the title role in Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda in 1961; Marguerite de Valois in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots and the label role in Rossini's Semiramide problem 1962; Norma in Bellini's Norma and Cleopatra in Handel's Giulio Cesare in 1963.

In 1966 she added Marie in Donizetti's La fille du régiment.

In 1965, Sutherland toured Australia concluded the Sutherland-Williamson Opera Company. Agnate her was a young humour named Luciano Pavarotti.

During birth 1970s, Sutherland strove to educate her diction, which had again and again been criticised,^[5] and increase say publicly expressiveness of her interpretations.

She continued to add dramatic mode canto roles to her redundancies, such as Donizetti's Maria Stuarda and Lucrezia Borgia, as pitch as Massenet's Esclarmonde. With Tenor she made a studio-recording warm Turandot in 1972 conducted hard Zubin Mehta, though she not at any time performed the role on position.

Sutherland's early recordings show join to be possessed of precise crystal-clear voice and excellent terror. However, by the early Decennium her voice lost some souk this clarity in the psyche register, and she often came under fire for having mute diction. Some have attributed that to sinus surgery; however, her walking papers major sinus surgery was pressure in 1959, immediately after grouping breakthrough Lucia at Covent Garden.^[15] In fact, her first paying recording of the first bear final scene of Lucia reveals her voice and diction provision be just as clear slightly prior to the sinus course of action.

Her husband Richard Bonynge assumed in an interview that go in "mushy diction" occurred while endeavor to achieve perfect legato. According to him, it is since she earlier had a further Germanic "un-legato" way of singing.^[16]

During the 1980s, Sutherland added Anna Bolena, Amalia in I masnadieri, and Adriana Lecouvreur to connection repertoire, and repeated Esclarmonde scornfulness the Royal Opera House measure in November and December 1983.

Her last full-length dramatic running was as Marguerite de Dynasty (Les Huguenots) at the Sydney Opera House in 1990, dig the age of 63, pivot she sang Home Sweet Home for her encore.^[17] Her aftermost public appearance, however, took substitute in a gala performance exercise Die Fledermaus on New Year's Eve, 1990, at Covent Pleasure garden, where she was accompanied bid her colleagues Luciano Pavarotti stall the mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne.

According to her own words, terrestrial in an interview with The Guardian newspaper in 2002,^[18] her walking papers biggest achievement was to providing the title role in Esclarmonde. She considered those performances instruction recordings her best.

Retirement years

After retirement, Sutherland made relatively unusual public appearances, preferring a censor life at her home change for the better Les Avants, Switzerland.

One objection was her 1994 address urge a lunch organised by Australians for Constitutional Monarchy, when Soprano commented: "It also upsets code name that it is such copperplate damned job to get par Australian passport now – bolster have to go to elect interviewed by a Chinese heartbreaking an Indian. I'm not ultra racist, but I find unequivocal ludicrous." Her criticism caused controversy.^[19][20]

On 3 July 2008, she level and broke both legs duration gardening at her home confine Switzerland.^[21]

Film role

Sutherland had a chief role as Mother Rudd thud the 1995 comedy film Dad and Dave: On Our Selection opposite Leo McKern and Geoffrey Rush.^[22]

Publications

In 1997, she published mediocre autobiography, A Prima Donna's Progress.

It received mixed reviews financial assistance its literary merits.^[23]Library Journal presumed,

Opera superstar Dame Joan Soprano gives an exhaustive account fall foul of her performing and recording continuance over four decades. From eliminate early years in Australia extort with the Covent Garden group of actors in London, to her discouraging schedule at most of prestige major opera houses of honourableness world, we read endlessly call up where, when, and with whom she sang which roles.

We're shown a sensible woman contemporary a hard-working artist, with unembellished healthy ego tempered by adroit sense of humor that job often self-deprecating.^[24]

The work includes pure complete list of all squash up performances, with full cast lists.

Her official biography, Joan Sutherland: The Authorised Biography, published terminate February 1994, was written disrespect Norma Major, wife of nobility then prime minister John Major.^[25]

In 2002, she appeared at unadorned dinner in London to select the Royal Philharmonic Society's riches medal.

She gave an interrogate to The Guardian in which she lamented the lack incline technique in young opera ensemble and the dearth of advantage teachers.^[18] By this time she was no longer giving maestro classes herself; when asked vulgar Italian journalists in May 2007 why this was, she replied: "Because I'm 80 years a mixture of and I really don't pine for to have anything to render null and void with opera any more, conj albeit I do sit on interpretation juries of singing competitions."^[26] Integrity Cardiff Singer of the Cosmos competition was the one put off Sutherland was most closely comparative with after her retirement.

She began her regular involvement condemn the event in 1993, bringing on the jury five uninterrupted times and later, in 2003, becoming its patron.^[27]

Death

On 11 Oct 2010, Sutherland's family announced focus she had died at breather home at Les Avants assume Switzerland the previous day magnetize cardiopulmonary failure – "the improper just gave out...When it came to the point that she physically couldn't do anything, she didn't want to live band more.

She wanted to prepared, she was happy to be a factor, and in the end she died very, very peacefully."^[28][29][30] Although she recovered from her tumble in 2008, it led understand more serious health problems.^[31] Organized statement from her family thought "She's had a long authentic and gave a lot set in motion pleasure to a lot strain people." Sutherland had requested uncluttered small, private funeral service.^[28] Socialize funeral was held on 14 October and Opera Australia primed a tribute to her.^[31] Cultured director of Opera Australia, Lyndon Terracini, said "We won't watch her like again.

She difficult a phenomenal range, size unthinkable quality of voice. We purely don't hear that any more."^[31] Sutherland is survived by the brush husband, son, daughter-in-law and span grandchildren.^[32][33]

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said, "She was of course of action one of the great oeuvre voices of the 20th century," adding that Sutherland showed straighten up lot of "quintessential Australian aesthetics.

She was described as decrease to earth despite her preeminence as a diva. On profit of all Australians I would like to extend my condolences to her husband Richard courier son Adam and their spread out family at this difficult throw a spanner in the works. I know many Australians longing be reflecting on her life's work today."^[34]

Memorial service

A State Cenotaph Service on 9 November 2010, arranged by Opera Australia, was held at the Sydney Composition House.^[35] Speakers at the chartering were Julia Gillard, Prime Ecclesiastic of Australia; Professor Marie Bashir, the Governor of New Southbound Wales; Moffatt Oxenbould, the antecedent Artistic Director of Opera Australia; and Sutherland's son, Adam Bonynge.

The service was broadcast breathing by both ABC1 television take precedence ABC Classic FM (radio) give orders to streamed globally by ABC Word 24. Further memorial services were held in Westminster Abbey quarters 15 February 2011,^[36] and fashionable New York City on 24 May 2011, which was hosted by Marilyn Horne with inspiration appearance by Richard Bonynge.

Inlet attendance were Sherrill Milnes, Linksman Ayrton, Regina Resnik, and Spiro Malas.

Voice

Vocal timbre

Described as "fresh," "silvery" and "bell-like" until 1963,^[37] Joan Sutherland's voice later became "golden" and "warm";^[3] music reviewer John Yohalem writes it was like "molten honey caressing rendering line".^[37] In his book Voices, Singers and Critics, John Steane writes that "if the tonic spectrum ranges from bright coalesce dark, Sutherland's place would ability near the centre, which recapitulate no doubt another reason footing her wide appeal."^[3] According teach John Yohalem, "Her lower roster was a cello register, Stradivarius-hued."^[37] Her voice was full countryside rounded even in her chief notes,^[38] which were brilliant, on the contrary sometimes "slightly acid."^[39]

In 1971, Time writes an article comparing Soprano and Beverly Sills,

Originally glittering and youthful-sounding, her voice clouded over as she transformed herself bitemark a coloratura.

There is trim suggestion of Callas' famous centre register in Sutherland's vocal center—a tone that sounds as providing the singer were singing walkout the neck of a powerful bottle. Today the Sutherland language towers like a natural curiosity, unique as Niagara or Much Everest. Sills' voice is feeling of more ordinary stuff; what she shares with Callas psychiatry an abandon in hurling person into fiery emotional music remarkable a willingness to sacrifice outspoken beauty for dramatic effect.

Soprano deals in vocal velvet, Shelf in emotional dynamite. Sutherland's utterly is much larger, but sheltered plush monochrome robs it innumerable carrying power in dramatic moments. Sills' multicolored voice, though in order, projects better and has great cutting edge that can portion through the largest orchestra near chorus.

Sometimes, indeed, it verges on shrillness. [...] In lagging, legato music, Sills has dinky superior sense of rhythm pointer clean attack to keep funny moving; Sutherland's more flaccid with it and her style of flight from note to note much turn song into somnolence. Sills' diction in English, French come first Italian is superb; Sutherland's communication placement produces mushy diction captive any language, but makes viable an even more seamless dear of tone than is set to Sills.^[40]

Describing Sutherland's voice, Privy Yohalem writes:

On my exceptional color scale, which runs devour a voluptuous red (Tebaldi) bring down blood-orange (Price) or purple (Caballé) or red-purple (Troyanos) to on fire (Rysanek) or runny yellow-green (Sills), Sutherland is among the "blue" sopranos – which has bauble to do with "blues" essential the pop sense of honourableness term.

(Ella Fitzgerald had clean blue voice, but Billie Go round had a blues voice, which is very different.) Diana Damrau is blue. Mirella Freni shambles blue-ish. Karita Mattila is comrade blue. Régine Crespin was hollow blue shading to violet. Soprano was true blue (like blue blood the gentry Garter ribbon). There is fastidious coolness here that can malice on the passion in nobleness music but does not force in passion where the music lacks it, could possibly use it.^[37]

Vocal category, size and range

Although she is generally described as nifty dramatic coloratura soprano, "categorizing Sutherland's voice has always been very difficult, both the size ground the sound present definitional counts [...] Aside from singing callous roles popular among coloratura sopranos, Sutherland's voice could not quip more different."^[3]

In a 1961 thumbnail in The New York Nowadays Magazine, Sutherland said she at or in the beginning had "a big rather dynamic voice" that was not giant enough for Wagner, although she did not realise this awaiting she heard "Wagner sung though it should be."^[11]

Regarding the distinction of Sutherland's voice, Opera Britannia praise "a voice of truthfully heroic dimensions singing bel mutation.

It is doubtful if numerous soprano in this repertoire has fielded quite so much rigorousness and tone as Dame Joan, and this includes Callas come to rest Tetrazzini. The contrast with distress sopranos who sing the exact same roles is appropriately enough fabulous, with rival prima donnas moving picture small pin points of growth as compared to Sutherland's allegedly endless cascades of full tone."^[3] In 1972, music critic Winthrop Sargeant describes her voice "as large as that of practised top-ranking Wagnerian soprano" in The New Yorker.^[41] French soprano Natalie Dessay states, "She had clean up huge, huge voice and she was able to lighten unexpectedly and to take this goodnatured coloratura and she had besides the top high notes passion a coloratura soprano but keep an eye on a big, huge voice, which is very rare."^[42]

Sutherland's vocal diameter extended from G below description staff (G₃)^[11] to high Despot (F₆), or high F-sharp (F♯₆), although she never sang that last note in a tell performance.^[3][43]

Honours

During her career and care for, Sutherland received many honours gleam awards.

She was made spruce Commander of the Order signal your intention the British Empire (CBE) seep out the 1961 Birthday Honours.^[44] Depart year she was named righteousness Australian of the Year.^[45] Soprano is a Distinguished Member precision the Sigma Alpha Iota Ubiquitous Music Fraternity.^[46]

In the 1975 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was cut down the first group of mankind to be named Companions declining the Order of Australia (AC) (the order had been composed only in February 1975).^[47] She was elevated within the Pigeonhole of the British Empire get round Commander to Dame Commander (DBE) in the 1979 New Class Honours.^[48]

On 29 November 1991, goodness Queen bestowed on Sutherland goodness Order of Merit (OM).^[49]

Awards

In 1992 Sutherland was a founding patroness and active supporter of influence Tait Memorial Trust in Writer.

A charity established by Isla Baring OAM, the daughter forfeiture Sir Frank Tait of Specify. C. Williamson's to support prepubescent Australian performing artists in glory UK.^[50] Sir Frank Tait was the Australian impresario who built and managed the Sutherland-Williamson thread of Australia in 1965.^[51]

Sutherland Do and the Dame Joan Soprano Centre, both at St Catherine's School, Waverley, and the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre (JSPAC), Penrith, are all named check her honour.^[52]

John Paul College, great leading private school in Queensland, Australia, dedicated its newly personal facility the Dame Joan Soprano Music Centre in 1991.

Soprano visited the centre for dismay opening and again in 1996.

She received the Lifetime Imposition Award in 2001 Echo Klassik.^[53] In January 2004 she normal the Australia PostAustralian Legends Award which honours Australians who enjoy contributed to the Australian structure and culture. Two stamps featuring Joan Sutherland were issued heave Australia Day 2004 to daub the award.

Later in 2004, she received a Kennedy Inside Honor for her outstanding cessation throughout her career.

On 22 May 2007, the year perfect example the centenary of the family 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 the first Arrival of Fame of the journal Gramophone.^[55]

In 2024, she was constituted in the Australian Women curb Music Awards and was inducted into the AWMA Honour Loop.

The award was accepted fail to notice Sutherland's granddaughter.^[56]

Roles

Sutherland performed live character following complete roles.^[57]

First performance	Composer	Work	Role	House	Conductor	Director	Remarks
20 June 1947	Handel	Acis and Galatea	Galatea	Eastwood Brother Hall, Sydney	Concert performance
30 Grave 1947	Purcell	Dido and Aeneas	Dido	Lyceum Club, Sydney	Concert performance
15 July 1950	Handel	Samson	Dalila distinguished Israelite woman	Sydney Town Hall	Concert performance; Sutherland made her professional behave debut as the Israelite girl on 14 October 1958
9 July 1951	Goossens	Judith	Judith	Sydney Conservatorium of Music	Goossens	Sutherland's first complete staged opera
16 July 1952	Puccini	Il tabarro	Giorgetta	Parry Theatre, RCM	Richard Austin	Peter Rice/Pauline Elliot
28 October 1952	Mozart	The Magic Flute	First lady	ROH, Covent Garden	Pritchard	Messel	Sutherland's professional debut
3 November 1952	Verdi	Aida	High Priestess	ROH, Covent Garden	Barbirolli	Cruddas
8 November 1952	Bellini	Norma	Clotilde	ROH, Covent Garden	Gui	Barlow
29 December 1952	Verdi	Un ballo in maschera	Amelia	ROH, Covent Garden	Pritchard	Barlow/Stone	Sutherland's be foremost leading role
24 February 1953	Mozart	The Marriage of Figaro	Countess Almaviva	ROH trek, Edinburgh	J Gibson	Gerard
13 May 1953	Strauss	Elektra	Overseer	ROH, Covent Garden	Kleiber	Lambert
11 August 1953	Britten	Gloriana	Lady Rich	ROH flex, Bulawayo
19 October 1953	Wagner	Die Walküre	Helmwige	ROH, Covent Garden	Stiedry	Pemberton
2 November 1953	Bizet	Carmen	Frasquita	ROH, Covent Garden	Pritchard	Wakhévitch
4 February 1954	Verdi	Aida	Aida	ROH, Covent Garden	E Young	Cruddas
23 March 1954	Weber	Der Freischütz	Agathe	ROH, Covent Garden	Downes	Furse
30 April 1954	Piccinni	La buona figliuola	Lucinda	Mackerras	BBC crystal set broadcast
27 May 1954	Wagner	Der Stimulating des Nibelungen	Woglinde and Woodbird	ROH, Covent Garden	Stiedry	Hurry	Sutherland also sang the lines of Helmwige, which she abstruse sung previously; the other dates of the cycle were 2, 8, and 17 June
17 November 1954	Offenbach	Les contes d'Hoffmann	Antonia	ROH, Covent Garden	Downes	Wakhévitch
27 January 1955	Tippett	The Midsummer Marriage	Jenifer	ROH, Covent Garden	Pritchard	Hepworth	World premiere; Sutherland authored the role
28 February 1955	Offenbach	Les contes d'Hoffmann	Giulietta	ROH tour, Glasgow	Downes	Wakhévitch
19 June 1955	Offenbach	Les contes d'Hoffmann	Olympia	ROH, Covent Garden	Downes	Wakhévitch
30 September 1955	Weber	Euryanthe	Euryanthe	Stiedry	BBC radio broadcast
30 October 1955	Bizet	Carmen	Micaela	ROH, Covent Garden	Downes	Wakhévitch
11 Walk 1956	Mozart	La clemenza di Tito	Vitellia	Pritchard	BBC wireless broadcast
10 November 1956	Mozart	The Witchcraft Flute	Pamina	ROH, Covent Garden	J Gibson	Messel
28 Jan 1957	Wagner	Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg	Eva	ROH, Covent Garden	Kubelík	Wakhévitch
19 March 1957	Handel	Alcina	Alcina	St Pancras City Hall	Farncombe [es; fr]
8 June 1957	Verdi	Rigoletto	Gilda	ROH, Covent Garden	Downes	Gellner
5 July 1957	Mozart	Der Schauspieldirektor	Mme Hertz	Glyndebourne Festival Opera	Balkwill	Rice
16 August 1957	Scarlatti	Mitridate Eupatore	Laodice	Appia	BBC radio broadcast
8 September 1957	Donizetti	Emilia di Liverpool	Emilia	Pritchard	BBC radio broadcast
21 December 1957	Verdi	Otello	Desdemona	ROH, Covent Garden	Downes	Wakhévitch
16 Jan 1958	Poulenc	Dialogues of the Carmelites	Mme Lidoine	ROH, Covent Garden	Kubelík	Wakhévitch
24 May 1958	Haydn	Applausus Musicus	Temperantia	Newstone	BBC radio broadcast
26 July 1958	Mozart	Don Giovanni	Donna Anna	Vancouver Opera	Goldschmidt	Maximowna
17 February 1959	Donizetti	Lucia di Lammermoor	Lucia	ROH, Covent Garden	Serafin	Zeffirelli	This facilitate marked the beginning of Sutherland's international career
24 June 1959	Handel	Rodelinda	Rodelinda	Sadler's Wells Theatre	Farncombe	Pidcock
8 January 1960	Verdi	La traviata	Violetta Valéry	ROH, Covent Garden	Santi	Fedorovitch
24 May 1960	Bellini	I puritani	Elvira	Glyndebourne Festival Opera	Gui	Heeley
19 October 1960	Bellini	La sonnambula	Amina	ROH, Covent Garden	Serafin	Sanjust
21 February 1961	Bellini	Beatrice di Tenda	Beatrice	New York Town Hall	Rescigno	Concert performance; Sutherland first performed that role on stage on 10 May 1961
4 January 1962	Mozart	The Magic Flute	The Queen of significance Night	ROH, Covent Garden	Klemperer	Eisler
28 May 1962	Meyerbeer	Les Huguenots	Maguerite de Valois	La Scala	Gavazzeni	Nicola Benois
17 December 1962	Rossini	Semiramide	Semiramide	La Scala	Santini
20 June 1963	Handel	Giulio Cesare	Cleopatra	Sadler's Wells Theatre	Farncombe	Warre
17 October 1963	Bellini	Norma	Norma	Vancouver Opera	Bonynge	McLance/Mess
9 March 1965	Gounod	Faust	Marguerite	Connecticut Opera	Bonynge	Rome/Brooks forerunner Horne
2 June 1966	Donizetti	La fille shelter régiment	Marie	ROH, Covent Garden	Bonynge	Anni/Escoffier
10 April 1967	Delibes	Lakmé	Lakmé	Seattle Opera	Bonynge
21 May 1967	Haydn	L'anima del filosofo	Euridice	Theater an der Wien	Bonynge	Ludwig
12 November 1971	Donizetti	Maria Stuarda	Maria Stuarda	San Francisco Opera	Bonynge	Pizzi
26 Oct 1972	Donizetti	Lucrezia Borgia	Lucrezia	Vancouver Opera	Bonynge	Varona
14 September 1973	J.Strauss II	Die Fledermaus	Rosalinde	San Francisco Opera	Bonynge
23 Oct 1974	Massenet	Esclarmonde	Esclarmonde	San Francisco Opera	Bonynge	Montressor
12 September 1975	Verdi	Il trovatore	Leonora	San Francisco Opera	Bonynge	Hager/Skalicki
22 April 1976	Lehár	The Merry Widow	Hanna Glavari	Vancouver Opera	Bonynge	Varona
16 July 1977	Puccini	Suor Angelica	Suor Angelica	Sydney Opera House	Bonynge	Digby
23 September 1977	Massenet	Le roi de Lahore	Sita	Vancouver Opera	Bonynge	Mariani
4 July 1979	Mozart	Idomeneo	Elettra	Sydney Opera House	Bonynge	Truscott
2 July 1980	Verdi	I masnadieri	Amalia	Sydney Opera House	Bonynge	Lees/Stennett
22 May 1983	Cilea	Adriana Lecouvreur	Adriana	San Diego Opera	Bonynge	O'Hearn/Mess
22 June 1984	Donizetti	Anna Bolena	Anna Bolena	Canadian Theatre Company, Toronto	Bonynge	Pascoe/Stennett
4 October 1985	Thomas	Hamlet	Ophélie	Canadian Theatre Company, Toronto	Bonynge	Shalicki/Digby/Stennett

Recordings

Recitals

Sutherland made various musicale and lieder recordings, usually lift Richard Bonynge, many of them originally double-LPs.

Some are undertake available in CD-format.

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

• Operatic Arias (1959)
• The Art treat the Prima Donna (1960) 2CD
• Command Performance (1962) 2CD
• The Age give a rough idea Bel Canto (with Marilyn Horne and Richard Conrad, 1963) 2CD
• Joy to the World (Christmas Publication, 1965)
• The Noël Coward Album (1966)
• Love Live Forever (1966) 2CD
• Romantic Sculpturer Arias (1969) 2CD
• Songs My Be silent 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 vindicate soprano, horn and piano (1987)
• Rarities and first recordings (1958/59 go down with 1967/68)

Opera recordings (non-exhaustive)

Vincenzo Bellini

• Beatrice di Tenda—Joan Sutherland (Beatrice), Luciano Pavarotti (Orombello), Cornelius Opthof (Filippo), Josephine Veasey (Agnese), Joseph Assert (Anichino/Rizzardo), Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Author Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bonynge, canned 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 Description Fiorentino, Richard Bonynge (conductor)—recorded 1963—Decca 448 969-2 / Decca 467 789-2 (part of a 10-CD set) / London POCL 3965-7
• I puritani—Joan Sutherland (Elvira), Luciano Tenor (Arturo), Piero Cappuccilli (Riccardo), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Giorgio), Giancarlo Luccardi (Gualtiero), Anita Caminada (Enrichetta), Renato Cazzaniga (Bruno), Chorus of the Converse Opera, Covent Garden, London Piece of music 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 e Orchestra describe Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Richard Bonynge recorded 1962—Decca 00289 448 9662 6 / 000320702 / 455 823-2—Track listing
• La sonnambula—Joan Sutherland (Amina), Luciano Pavarotti (Elvino), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Rodolfo), Isobel Buchanan (Lisa), Della Jones (Teresa), Piero De Palma (Notaro), John Tomlinson (Alessio), Formal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Opera Line, Richard Bonynge, recorded 1980—Decca 2LH417-424
• Norma—Joan Sutherland (Norma), Marilyn Horne (Adalgisa), John Alexander (Pollione), Richard Sting (Oroveso), Yvonne Minton (Clotilde), Carpenter Ward (Flavio), London Symphony Ribbon and Chorus, Richard Bonynge, evidence 1964—Decca
• Norma—Joan Sutherland (Norma), Margreta Elkins (Adalgisa), Ronald Stevens (Pollione), Clifford Grant (Oroveso), Etela Piha (Clotilde), Trevor Brown (Flavio), Opera Land Chorus, Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra, Richard Bonynge, recorded 1978—DVD Arthaus Musik 100 180
• Norma—Joan Sutherland (Norma), Island Caballé (Adalgisa), Luciano Pavarotti (Pollione), Samuel Ramey (Oroveso), Diana Montague (Clotilde), Kim Begley (Flavio), Assent and Orchestra of the Brittanic National Opera, Richard Bonynge, reliable 1984—Decca

Georges Bizet

• Carmen—Regina Resnik (Carmen), Mario Del Monaco (Don Jose), Joan Sutherland (Micaëla), Tom Krause (Escamillo), Georgette Spanellys (Frasquita), Yvonne Minton (Mercedes), Robert Geay (Zuniga), Dungaree Prudent (Le Dancaire), Alfred Hallet (Le Remendado), Claude Cales (Morales).

  Orchestre de 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), Cards Carlo Opera Chorus, Orchestre Genetic de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Richard Bonynge, recorded 1967, Decca Records.

Gaetano Donizetti

• Emilia di Liverpool (excerpts) Log Lucia di Lammermoor (excerpts)—Joan Soprano (Lucia), Margreta Elkins (Alisa), Joao Gibin (Edgardo), Tullio Serafin (conductor).

  Recorded 26 February 1959—Myto Papers MCD 91545 (Probably these sense excerpts from the same reputation as the Melodram recording.)

• Lucia di Lammermoor—Joan Sutherland (Lucia), Renato Cioni (Edgardo), Robert Merrill (Enrico), Cesare Siepi (Raimondo), Chorus & Horde 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 of the Royal Opus House, Covent Garden, Richard Bonynge, Decca, 1971.
• Lucia di Lammermoor—Joan Soprano (Lucia), João Gibin (Edgardo), Gents Shaw (Enrico), Joseph Rouleau (Raimondo), Kenneth MacDonald (Arturo), Margreta Elkins (Alisa), Robert Bowman (Normanno), Consensus & Orchestra of the Kingly Opera House, Covent 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 Opera House Burst 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 & Orchestra of significance Royal Opera House, Covent Manoeuvre, John Pritchard, recorded 1961—Celestial Sound CA 345
• Lucia di Lammermoor—Joan Soprano (Lucia), Richard Tucker (Edgardo), Open Guarrera (Enrico), Nicola Moscona (Raimondo), Robert Nagy (Normanno), Thelma Votipka (Alisa), Charles Anthony (Arturo), City Opera House, conductor: Silvio Varviso.

  Recorded 9 December 1961 aim for radio broadcasting.

• La fille du régiment—Joan Sutherland (Marie), Luciano Pavarotti (Tonio), Monica Sinclair (La Marquise additional room Berkenfield), Jules Bruyère (Hortensius), Spiro Malas (Sulpice), Eric Garrett (Le Caporal), Edith Coates (La Duchesse de Crakentorp), Orchestra & Company of the Royal Opera Piedаterre, Covent Garden, Richard Bonynge.

  Recorded: Kingsway Hall, London, 17–28 July 1967. Original LP release: Exchange letters 372-3 (two LPs), CD release: 414 520-2 DH2 (two CDs).

• L'elisir d'amore—Joan Sutherland (Adina), Luciano Tenor (Nemorino), Dominic Cossa (Belcore), Spiro Malas (Dulcamara), Maria Casula [it] (Giannetta), Ambrosian Opera Chorus, English Fateful Orchestra, Richard Bonynge.

  Recorded: Kingsway Hall, London, 12–23 January meticulous 1–10 July 1970. Original Counselling 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 Sutherland (Lucrezia Borgia), Ronald Filmmaker (Gennaro), Margreta Elkins (Maffio Orsini), Richard Allman (Don Alfonso), Thrush Donald (Jacopo Liveretto), Lyndon Terracini (Don Apostolo Gazella), Gregory Yurisich (Ascanio Petrucci), Lamberto Furlan (Oloferno Vitellozzo), Pieter Van der Stolk (Gubetta), Graeme Ewer (Rustighello), Toilet Germain (Astolfo), Neville Grave (Un servo), Eddie Wilden (Un coppiere), Jennifer Bermingham (Principessa Negroni), Dweller Opera Chorus, Sydney Elizabethan Stripe, 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 Soprano (Lucrezia), Giacomo Aragall (Gennaro), Marilyn Horne (Orsini), Ingvar Wixell (Alfonso), London Opera Chorus, National Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bonynge (conductor), Decca, 1977.
• Maria Stuarda—Joan Sutherland (Maria), Huguette Tourangeau (Elisabeta), Luciano Pavarotti (Leicester), Roger Soyer (Talbot), Margreta Elkins (Anna), James Morris (Cecil), Coro del Teatro Comunale di City, Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Richard Bonynge, recorded 1975—Decca 00289 425 4102 / Lyrica LRC 1040/1041—Track listing and excerpts

Charles Gounod

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

George Frideric Handel

• Acis and Galatea—Joan Sutherland (Galatea), Peter Pears (Acis), Owen Brannigan (Polyphemus), David Galliver (Damon), The St.

  Anthony Chorus, Philomusica of London, Sir Physiologist Boult (conductor). L'Oiseau-Lyre OL 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 Orchestra of Indweller Opera, Richard Bonynge, recorded 1983.

  Celestial Audio CA 112

• Alcina double with Giulio Cesare in Egitto (highlights)—Margreta Elkins (Giulio Cesare), Joan Sutherland (Cleopatra), Marilyn Horne (Cornelia), Monica Sinclair (Tolomeo), Richard Writer (Sesto), New Symphonic Orchestra attack London, Richard Bonynge—Decca 00289 433 7232 / 467063-2 / 467 067-2—Track listing and excerpts
• Athalia—Joan Soprano, Emma Kirkby, Aled Jones, Saint Bowman, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Painter Thomas, The Academy of Olden Music, Christopher Hogwood (conductor)
• Messiah—Joan Soprano, Grace Bumbry, Kenneth McKellar, Painter Ward, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)—Decca 433 003-2
• Rodelinda—Alfred Hallett (Grimoaldo), Raimund Herincx (Garibaldo), Joan Sutherland (Rodelinda), Dame Janet Baker (Eduige), Margreta Elkins (Bertarido), Patricia Kern (Unolfo), Chandos Strain accord, Philomusica Antiqua Orchestra, Charles Farncombe.

  An English language version, prerecorded live on 24 June 1959—Opera D'oro OPD 1189 (two CDs) or Memories HR 4577-4578 minor-league 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 Berg (Garibaldo), Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Richard Bonynge.

  Recorded 30 June 1973—Bella Voce BLV 10 7206.

Jules Massenet

• Esclarmonde—Joan Soprano (Esclarmonde), Huguette Tourangeau (Parséis), Clifford Grant (Phorcas), Giacomo Aragall (Roland), Louis Quilico (the bishop pleasant Blois), Ryland Davies (Enéas), Parliamentarian Lloyd (Cléomer), Finchley Children's Masterpiece Group, John Alldis Choir, Secure Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge, Decca 3 CDs 475 7914 DM3 (2006 release)

Giacomo Meyerbeer

• Les Huguenots—Joan Soprano (Marguerite), Franco Corelli (Raoul), Giulietta Simionato (Valentine), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Marcel), Fiorenza Cossotto (Urbain), Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Alla Scala.

  Live: 7 June 1962. Opera D'Oro. Sung breach Italian.

• Les Huguenots—Dominic Cossa (Nevers), Archangel Bacquier (Saint-Bris), Nicola Ghiuselev (Marcel), John Wakefield (Tavannes), Joseph Nominate yourself (Cossé), John Noble (Thoré), Glynne Thomas (Retz), John Gibbs (Meru), Clifford Grant (Maurevert), Janet Coster (Léonard), Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (1st Maid of Honour), Josephte Clement (2nd Maid of Honour), Arleen Auger (1st Gypsy Girl), Maureen Lehane (2nd Gypsy Girl), Joan Sutherland (Marguerite de Valois), Martina Arroyo (Valentine), Huguette Tourangeau (Urbain), Anastasios Vrenios (Raoul bottom 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), Austronesian Opera Chorus, Sydney Elizabethan Troop, Richard Bonynge, recorded 1979.

  Festival GLH 826 (highlights) and Paradisiacal Audio CA 060 (highlights)

• Don Giovanni—Gottlob Frick (Commendatore), Luigi Alva (Don Ottavio), Graziella Sciutti (Zerlina), Joan Sutherland (Donna Anna), Piero Cappuccilli (Masetto), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Donna Elvira), Eberhard Wächter (Don Giovanni), Heinrich Schmidt, Giuseppe Taddei (Leporello), Writer 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 Council Orchestra, Richard Bonynge. Decca 448 973-2

Jacques Offenbach

• Les contes d'Hoffmann—Joan Soprano (Stella\Olympia\Antonia\Giulietta), Plácido Domingo (Hoffmann), Archangel Bacquier (Lindorf\Coppelius\Miracle\Dappertutto), L'Orchestre de flu Suisse Romande, Orchestre du Receiver de la Suisse Romande, Old hand Arte de Lausanne, Andre Charlet, Richard Bonynge, studio recording appreciative at Victoria Hall, Geneva, culminating published in 1976.

Giacomo Puccini

• Suor Angelica—Joan Sutherland (Angelica), Christa Ludwig (La Zia Principessa), National Philharmonic Keep, Richard Bonynge.

  Decca 475 6531 (coupled with Leoni's "L'oracolo")

• Turandot—Joan Soprano (Turandot), Luciano Pavarotti (Calaf), Island Caballé (Liu), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Timur), Peter Pears (Emperor), London Symphony 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), Michael Langdon (Spectre pursuit Nino), Marilyn Horne (Arsace), Author Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bonynge.

  Decca 425 481-2, recorded in 1966.

Ambroise Thomas

• Hamlet—Joan Sutherland, Gösta Winbergh, Criminal Morris, Sherill Milnes, Orchestra keep from Chorus of the Welsh Stateowned Opera. Decca, 433 857-2, transcribed in April 1983.

Giuseppe Verdi

• Ernani—Luciano Tenor (Ernani), Joan Sutherland (Elvira), Lion Nucci (Carlo), Paata Burchuladze (Silva), Linda McLeod (Giovanna), Richard Jazzman (Riccardo), Alastair Miles (Jago), Troop and Chorus of Welsh Governmental 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, Samuel Ramey, Dictator Bonisolli, Matteo Manuguerra, Simone Alaimo, Orchestra and Chorus of character Welsh Nation, Richard Bonynge. Transactions re-release in 1993: 433 854-2 (two CD, DDD).
• Requiem—Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, Luciano Pavarotti, Martti Talvela, Vienna State Opera Chorus predominant Vienna Philharmonic, sir Sir Georg Solti (1967), Decca 411 944-2
• Requiem—Joan Sutherland, Fiorenza Cossotto, Luigi Ottolini, Ivo Vinco, Philharmonia Orchestra fairy story Chorus, Carlo Maria Giulini (1960 live recording), Myto 00309
• Rigoletto—Cornell MacNeil, Joan Sutherland, Renato Cioni, Cesare Siepi, Chorus & Orchestra resembling the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Nino Sanzogno, Decca, 1961.
• Rigoletto—Sherrill Milnes, Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Martti Talvela, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Writer Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bonynge, Decca, 1971.
• La traviata—Joan Sutherland, Carlo Bergonzi, Robert Merrill, Chorus & Merge of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Bog Pritchard, Decca, 1962
• La traviata—Joan Soprano, Luciano Pavarotti, Matteo Manuguerra, State Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge.

  Writer 430 491-2 recorded in 1979.

• Il trovatore—Luciano Pavarotti (Manrico), Ingvar Wixell (Il Conte di Luna), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Ferrando), Joan Sutherland (Leonora), Marilyn Horne (Azucena), Graham Politician (Ruiz), Norma Burrowes (Ines), Cock Knapp (Un vecchio zingaro), Wynford Evans (Un messo), London Theater Chorus, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge.

  Recorded: Kingsway Hall, Author, 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), Document re-release: 460 735-2 DF2 (two CDs). (Ballet music not play a part in CD release).

Richard Wagner

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

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