Dame Joan will live the hearts of many for generations to come!
@meltzerboy2 жыл бұрын
Dame Joan Sutherland was probably the greatest dramatic coloratura soprano of the 20th century. A machine, in a sense, but not without warmth, expression, and musicianship. We will never see or hear her likes again.
@vanmusician Жыл бұрын
I would go further and suggest she was technically the greatest singer who ever lived. We don't have recordings of many of the legendary superstar singers of the 19th Cent. but we can research comments by conductors, empresarios and critics, and we find that they all cheerfully transposed, and also omitted the most difficult sections of operas that Dame Joan made sound like child's play! The divine Patti omitted big chunks of La Traviata. Dame Joan is the only major singer I have heard sing the horribly difficult final two pages of the Fledermaus Czardas. And on and on.....
@ktrewin233 жыл бұрын
Lovely final comments about a decent human being. Happy Birthday Joan! RIP
@rakellcolotta36753 жыл бұрын
What a love tribute. I miss both Joan and Peter so much.
@wotan10950Ай бұрын
I had the great fortune to see her in most of her roles onstage from 1973 onwards. And met her backstage (every inch the diva), along with her husband who, contrary to popular lore, was very pleasant and friendly. Her voice defied description - no one like her before or since, although there were obviously other great sopranos who specialized in bel canto.
@gregberg55593 жыл бұрын
A lovely tribute- but with one error. Jennings says that in 1959 Sutherland realized her dream of singing at Covent Garden. As many of you know, Joan had been singing at Covent Garden for some years by that point. (If memory serves me correctly, her debut was as the First Lady in The Magic Flute in 1951. 1959 was when she achieved stardom with her first Lucia.)
@caramelorb3 жыл бұрын
Many thanks for this information. It's easy for a small mistake like this (probably written by an overworked and distracted writer) to be perpetuated.
@baritonebynight3 жыл бұрын
This wasn't her final performance. It was her final staged operatic performance. Her final singing performance was a few months later on New Years Eve 1990/91 as a party guest in a performance of Die Fledermause alongside Luciano Pavarotti and Marilyn Horne. She sang duets with Pavarotti and with Ms. Horne and finished with Home Sweet Home.
@ahogbin26442 жыл бұрын
1952 it was.
@pattishephard56517 ай бұрын
Joan said in an interview that she "joined the Garden company in the 1952/53 season".
@brunoantony32183 жыл бұрын
RIP Dame Joan & Peter Jennings.
@pinasmeralda60702 жыл бұрын
Divina
@HajimeIshii-dn6mz5 ай бұрын
I wish Dame Joan Sutherland had sung a bit longerーat least up until she turned 70. She retired too early; she could have silenced cynical critics longer.
@wotan10950Ай бұрын
I don’t think she cared about cynical critics, one way or another. She simply had had enough, and wanted to pursue her other hobbies and interests, including a leading role in a film about early Australian settlers, “On Our Selection.”
@MrAndromaque2 жыл бұрын
emotion-free, soprano machine👎
@jimbuxton21872 жыл бұрын
No.... just not histrionic. Classy musianship. Humble.