Gratidão por este vídeo. Que maravilha ouvir a voz madura da grande Sutherland. Bel Canto absoluto.

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We heard her singing Lucia at least twice in Sydney, and her performances were outstanding.

We often use this recording as an example! Birgit here is outstanding!

unglaublich, ich liebe sie!

If only this has been filmed.

Simply stunning live performance

Callas eterna unica ninguna pudo ni podra estar a su altura.era como un gigante cuando actuaba yo tuve la suerte de poder verla en aquella tosca memorable con tito gobbi en el covent garden la primera vez que fui a londres era el 9 de febrero de 1964.era algo inmenso.callas diosa monstruo sagrado divina siempre en mi cirazon

Pappano just shut up… you contribute with your ego and stupidity to the destruction of Opera, listen to those directors that were more near in time to the composer, and received the instructions from their maestros… even more near to the composers instead of impose your personal ideas about how things must be performed or better… listen to Puccini playing on his piano la Boheme… maybe you learn how it supposes to sound. Regarding Maria you are a moschito near her… just listen and be quiet… you may learn something.

I don't know how many times we saw Sutherland live. But each performance was outstanding. The most amazing feature of all her singing was that she appeared so effortless - just come onto the stage, open her mouth and sing, spot on every time. The work that must have gone into achieving that result.

Bravo!!!

Divas nowadays don’t sing like this anymore!!!

3:22 - 3:38 that ascenssion is sublime, there's no one who can float such a beautiful round sound

OMG - what a sound! What perfection! Only Monserrat Cabbale and Leyla Gence come close

This was the year I was blessed to hear her very first Norma performance - here in Vancouver. She was at her absolute vocal peak that year.

This is a gem!😎

In some ways her singing is better (richer) here than when I heard her 1981 Covent Garden performance. She did hold the top note longer then though.

Swedish lasers. Youre always rememberd and missed.

Pollione blew it by two-timing Norma. As one can see, Norma is not someone to be trifled with. You don't want to get on her bad side!

This is nearly flawless singing (and very expressive to boot, those who keep ranting that Sutherland was cold should be ashamed once again) in a treacherously difficult aria that can easily sound like screaming and screeching if sung by a less able voice. And take into consiferation that Sutherland was almost 54 years old when she sang this amazing performance, she had started singing professionally in 1946 in concert, and in 1947 in concert opera performances. That's 33-34 years of lyrical singing, much of it in very tricky and demanging repertory. That's what rock solid vocal chords and amazing technique gets you.

Words falter but the heart soars. Such pleasure Dame Joan’s heavenly voice. None compares. Australia’s gem of the ages 🇦🇺

Lei era Medea, era Norma, era Violetta, era Armida, era Lucia, era Imogene, era Anna (Bolena), era la lady (Macbeth), ecc. ecc. Questa è stata la sua grandezza ineguagliata e ineguagliabile. Lei non cantava solo (da par suo), si calava nel personaggio e lo viveva.

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5:06 rip tenor

Believe it or not, Mado Robin is singing Devinely in Eternity...

A critic once said about JS and summarized it better: “ No one has ever sung so fast, so loud, so high and so beautiful “.

2:25 I think was a "placement" choice; Sutherland was quite known for a lot of her vowels sounding like the same vague one (but who cares, right, as long as she could hit those notes!) In watching her, she always LOOKED like she was placing her vowels in the front formant and attempting to make them brighter but it didn't seem to help her diction! 2:56 I can just barely hear the flip of the 'r' in "straniero"...it's there but just very barely a blip in the sound. As it's the name of the aria (just as in "vissi d'arte" it's highly unlikely that she suddenly forgot the words but rather a function of vowel placement/consonant hiding common in Italian opera in favor of sound/vowel production.

"My skin was my costume. It was the way I felt as a human being. The way I was as a person, MERGED with me as a singer!" That was a whole word! ❤

Dame Joan Sutherland and Donizetti heaven!❤

Just beautiful ♥️💛💚

The fact that Sutherland sounded better in her 50s than anyone today is a disheartening reality. But the reaction of the crowd here is something that cannot be faked. Her voice and charisma were electric in the theater.

The terrible opera she is referring to is Der Zerrissene which seems to have had the alternate name "Lips".

Her voice always stood out, and also blended with the chorus when needed. A vocal marvel and a very pleasant lady!

Itisnotpossiblefullecranzustelleneinmiteinemneuenfernsehen

The divine

наверное это последнее лирическое колоратурное сопрано. Мода на такие голоса прошла. Ввел их в оперу Доницетти и это был последний сохранившийся женский голос из тех что были до Верди. Может я и ошибаюсь но мне кажется что так.

You don't see costumes like this for other sopranos, I can tell you. It must have cost a fortune. She was wise to save this role for her later years when her voice got even bigger and the low notes came into their own. She never forced them but in her last decade strangely her low notes got much stronger and her high notes got bigger and more steely. She could hit Eb easily even this late but D was her real glory note and here her voice was full bodied and at it's most enormous. The Eb was kind of white but still very solid and strong.

Just wonderful. Coloratura wasn't her thing as she wasn't a coloratura, but nonetheless one of the greatest dramatic sopranos of all time. SUCH power! I adore her!

Sutherland, aside from being the voice of the century, was a model of hard work and professionalism that is unmatched. She always gave her audience 100% despite her many physical challenges- sinus infections and surgery, bad knees and back, hauling around 50lb costumes while tossing off the most demanding music written for the human voice. She was a special unique lady; she means a lot to her still adoring fans. We will never hear that colossal voluptuous voice again, but her legacy is well preserved thankfully.

HOLY SHIT

Голос -свекающий брилиант, таких больше не будет. ВОСТОГ ЕЩЕ И ЕЩЕ ВОСТОРГ. ЗАГУБИЛИ ТАКОГО ЧЕЛОВЕКА-ТАЛАНТ, ублюдки-мужики, использовавшие любовь и привязанность такой ЖЕНЩИНЫ. Кровь ее души никогда не смоется с них.

One of Dame Joan's best roles.

Don Ottavio's italian pronunciation is simply atrocious. 😂

I'm here watching this wonderful woman singing like a bird. I was born in 1981 one year after she was on the stage making history and I was just a baby.

Anche in Verdi doveva cambiare qualcosa... insopportabile.

Maybe the last (with Caballe) of the assoluta sopranos. Obviously the voice itself was a gift but she worked tremendously hard to develop its potential. I've never heard a voice in the theatre like it since. Her technique was exemplary with a wonderful, liquid trill and superb laser - like high notes. It all appeared effortless, although of course it wasn't. I think Sutherland herself said "where are the teachers?". The major problem with modern opera singing is that singers are not taught how to breath, support and project correctly. It doesn't matter the size of the voice. Also there's not time to develop a career. Remember Sutherland had a 7 year apprenticeship at Covent Garden, singing large and small roles before, in the 1950s, she launched internationally. Sadly I think the art of bel canto has been lost for good.

Even Joan's '"little breaths" are enough to support that incredible voice and thrust out a massive sound.

Está aria no era para ella