Sutherland belongs with the greatest singers to have left recordings. The sheen, bounce and sheer decibels of her voice on stage is NOT completed duplicated on any recorded thing I know CF to the High D at the Trio at Act I of Norma which I heard on stage. Thank you kindly for posting-John
@jackbulmash42475 жыл бұрын
Agree. Not one of her recordings even though great do not give a fully accurate representation of the splendor of her live performances.
@jimbuxton21872 жыл бұрын
@@jackbulmash4247 ....yes... the recording process didn't capture her velvety sheen or the amazing hovering surround sound of her soaring tones!!
@jackbulmash42472 жыл бұрын
@@DavidoffGustav Many times.
@krowapaulinka43515 жыл бұрын
9:00 starts the phrase everyone is here for ;)
@asdfopera76614 жыл бұрын
I came here for 3:37.
@pietrodi16 жыл бұрын
beyond the notes Sutherland is pure enchantment, but unlike spells that as such are destined to fade, its magic will remain imperishable, thanks to recordings like this!
@soniaealonsoharden13729 жыл бұрын
Prima Donna Asoluta!
@sutherland912 жыл бұрын
This is not the only live recording of J. Sutherland singing a high F. When she sang The Magic Flute at Covent Garden the first aria was sung in the original key. That live recording exists and can be heard here on youtube.
@debbiewoodburn67866 жыл бұрын
La Stupenda! The Incomparable!
@MrStpendouslvforjo10 жыл бұрын
Actually, there is an F6 in the live recording from Covent Garden 1962 where she sang the FIRST Queen of the Night aria (in the original key)
@MrQwerty888 жыл бұрын
+george prentice Joan Sutherland never sang The Queen of Night in 1960. She didn't sing the role until January 1962. In those performances, the two arias she sings were lowered. The first aria, was lowered from B-flat major, down to A-major. The high Fs, instead were high E.
@MrStpendouslvforjo8 жыл бұрын
+MrQwerty88 Not to be argumentative....but in the '62 Magic Flute.....the first aria is in the ORIGINAL key - with the high F You are right about the year being 1962.😊
@skitzo4298 жыл бұрын
+MrQwerty88 Singular, there's one high F in the first aria.
@bellini7verdi6 жыл бұрын
SUS AGUDOS EN AQUELLOS MOMENTOS CORTABAN EL AIRE............Y SU AMPLITUD TAPONABA LA ATMOSFERA....................
@barbaranorthwood9 жыл бұрын
Utterly delightful. Thank you.
@bellini7verdi11 жыл бұрын
NADIE COMO ELLA PARA HACER ESTAS COLOCACIONES VOCALES.........CON EJECUCION PERFECTA.....LLENAS DE GLORIA......Y DE SOBERBIA Y ENERGIA ...SIN PARANGON...................VOZ...PURA ...SUELTA Y RESUELTA......PARA GLORIA DE NUESTROS OIDOS......
@josephhapp97 жыл бұрын
Also remember the legitimate argument against Modern Tuning Pitch A440 ,,,Verdi argued against anything above A432,,,who knows where Mozart would prefer . Time for non singers (instrumentalists conductors directors recording engineers etc) to step down and give power to the vocalist. Then we may have the Golden Age of singers again.
@TheTheaterMovies12 жыл бұрын
she's perfect!!
@danawinsor13802 жыл бұрын
What a beautiful performance. Joan's "Adagio" segment is truly stunning (as is the rest of the performance).
@MrStpendouslvforjo10 жыл бұрын
You did a great job! This video sounds GREAT!
@Richiesutherland11 жыл бұрын
No, sorry, Sutherland is Herz and Nadia Labay is Silberklang. Streich cancelled the engagement. Joan said that they intended to switch lines when it came to the Fs (including the stretch in the finale), and had to revert to the original division when Labay came on board. I ADORE Streich--I would have loved to have heard Joan and Streich together, although this recording gives us Joan's only live Fs
@florgano Жыл бұрын
Priceless! Thank you for sharing.
@JoanSutherlandFan7 жыл бұрын
Yes! This high note is a high F! Unfortunately was "drowned" for the other voices....
@Shahrdad9 жыл бұрын
This is great! She touches the F's with ease. I still have to hear her sustain a high F rather than touch and move on.
@nanborg658 жыл бұрын
You'll never hear it. She didn't have it. Her vocal mechanism carried with it a more-or-less firm ceiling at E6. To sustain notes comfortably even one note past that would have required a registral shift (i.e., towards flageolet register) which her voice was not capable of. But remember, her physiological voice was something in the area of a lyric mezzo, so in a sense she built a whole technique on registral "violations" and overcompensations that probably shouldn't have existed in the first place. That's what was so amazing about her. This voice almost shouldn't have existed at all!
@Shahrdad8 жыл бұрын
I think you're exactly right. I always loved the sound of her highest notes, but I know what you mean. One thing I have thought for a long time was that the highest notes in young, fat Callas's voice sounded more natural and more easily produced that Sutherland's. In the excerpt of Turco (Non si da follia maggiore) from 1950, the E-flat just pops out so easily, "easy as drinking water, as Simionato described Callas's E-flats. Someone left a great comment on a video that whereas Callas had very easy and seamless access to the highest notes in her prime, Sutherland had to flip a switch to activate that part of her voice, usually with a slight pause as she prepared the note, which was always magnificent. There is an audible shift in the position of the sound which Sutherland herself talked about, saying it felt like the sound didn't feel like it came out of her mouth, but out of the back of her head. She said in one interview that once when she was making a recording, one of the chorus members behind her told her, "When you hit those high notes, it sounds like you're singing backwards!" which confirmed to Sutherland that the sensation of the voice coming from the back of the head was not false. It was a truly magnificent instrument, and especially in those early days, before she started making her voice heavier, it had such a beautiful crystalline sound. I've always said she was a freak of nature!
@LohengrinO6 жыл бұрын
Sutherland was a lyric mezzo with that weak bottled atrophic indifferent middle voice and a C6, D6 and E6 that could destroy the Universe? I will never stop being amazed by the stupidities I read from Opera fans :D
@Shahrdad6 жыл бұрын
I don't think she was a mezzo either. Her low register was always too weak to have ever been a mezzo. One can make a better argument that Callas's natural voice was a mezzo, since her low register was always magnificent, but I'm not quite convinced that she was.
@joshuamcpherson0073 жыл бұрын
@@Shahrdad I believe that Sutherland had a very unique instrument, but was fundamentally a soprano. As a young singer she believed herself to be a mezzo, and actually won prizes singing as a mezzo early in life. She sings this mezzo aria, including the low A, quite easily and naturally. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIPcfnypj7Gtnck
@CaptFitzbattleaxe12 жыл бұрын
@sutherland9 A biography of Dame Joan says that she sang the two arias down a half step and whole step respectively. Adjusting the recordings accordingly produces a more natural result. (ie sounds more like her in 1962)
@lakehayden12 жыл бұрын
well done!
@Richiesutherland12 жыл бұрын
Do remember that Mozart's F was closer to our E natural, so, despite the many wonderful QoN's I've heard, it really is a falsification to make sopranos scream it up a half tone from where Mozart actually wrote it. And stated below, Joan didn't need a high F. With a voice that could have encompassed Isolde, taking the voice night after night after night up to high Eb with ease is an unheard of feat (remember, for years, she rarely sang an opera or a concert with many Ds and and Eb or two!
@herrbrucvald63767 жыл бұрын
the voice sounds quite different, such that I mightn't think it to be her. but how could someone at the Garden hear this and not give her a bel canto role??
@photo1614 жыл бұрын
-- like great music, stupidity endures forever...
@hester19553 жыл бұрын
Did you not hear? They did.
@CaptFitzbattleaxe12 жыл бұрын
@asdfopera @asdfopera I used Audacity, a fabulous open source program that is my constant companion in making these videos. Agreed about high F. I mean, E6 isn't high enough for us? :) But really: after high E, soprano notes tend to sound unnatural to me, as though there's a barrier that only a couple sopranos can successfully breach. Fs, F#s, Gs tend to sound weird and mechanical to me. E-flat is the sweet spot. At least, it was for Joan.
@AntonGerzenbergPiano11 жыл бұрын
Still, I don't understand why she didn't sing the F at the Schlussgesang... I mean, it's written by Mozart, so there is no possibility in not singing it. The thing she did, didn't sound natural. I agree, btw, the Trio is very delightful. The adagio-part is worth it alone.
@CaptFitzbattleaxe11 жыл бұрын
"Sutherland and Bonynge: An Intimate Biography" by Quaintance Eaton
@familypondman5 жыл бұрын
This is her real voice and not from later, making it dark to became the big roles and the high notes didn't come that easy anymore and more onnatural vocals!
@manonscate6910 жыл бұрын
where in the video you hear the high f?
@skitzo4298 жыл бұрын
+manonscate69 9:07
@baritonebynight12 жыл бұрын
Singers must have a note or two above what they will perform in public.She probably vocalized up to top F and G, but they were never comfortable. Have you ever sung an aria that was too high for you? Its not fun, you worry about your high notes and it takes away from the aria. Even world class singers have their limits. I think that Dame Joan's high notes were great, but they do not make her as an artist....that was the beauty of the instrument itself.
@AkaiGX4 жыл бұрын
9:00
@MadonnaImperia11 жыл бұрын
Which biography is that?
@fabriziomariagarzi55348 жыл бұрын
Soprani di oggi....imparate!
@skitzo4298 жыл бұрын
She only sings the one F at 9:07, there are a couple more later in the role that she omitted.
@Tsunade3Sannin12 жыл бұрын
are you sure it isnt streich singing Silberklang and labay who was supposed to sing Herz? just sounds like streich there to me