Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment New Orleans 1972 Sutherland Pavarotti Bonynge BETTER SOUND

*Thank you to Martin for helping me aquire this performance!!!*
This performance was part of the Metropolitan Opera's tour of La Fille Du Régiment. First came 12 performances at the Metropolitan Opera house with various substitutions of singers. After that, the tour went as such; Boston Massachusetts, Cleveland Ohio, Atlanta Georgia, New Orleans Louisiana, Minneapolis Minnesota, Detroit Michigan.
This here is the New Orleans performance. Date is May 20th, 1972. The cast is in wonderful voice here. Joan sounds in superb voice as does Pavarotti. Slight spoiler: Pavarotti, in this performance, does what I think to be his best Ah Mes Amis hes ever done! This will be debated in the future when more recordings pop up.
I've done some pitch corrections and some sound quality improvements.
Enjoy!
Cast:
Marie- Joan Sutherland
Tonio- Luciano Pavarotti
Sulpice- Fernando Corena
Dutchess- Jean Craft
Hortensius- Andrea Velis
Corporal- Andrij Dobriansky
Marquise- Monica Sinclair
Conductor- Richard Bonynge

[@lastupendaboy]

Oh my!!! Joan is in stunning ( usual!) form… I’m from New Orleans but missed this…I was finishing junior high at the time, and didn’t come to opera, and Sutherland until the late 70s… what a pity to miss this legendary performance by the very greatest, and in my city…!

[@pavarotti744]

The audience tells you all you need to know....listen to that sung every night for another 100 years by anyone else you care to mention, past, present or to come and they will never equal let alone surpass Pavarotti's performance of that aria.

[@alanfischer1948]

AGREED THAT THIS WAS PAVAROTTI'S BEST EVER POUR MON AME....He held the last C longer than he ever did in ANY of his MET performances, and I saw many of them. I remember hearing this recording very soon after the performance was done, and it still excites as no other did!

[@alfvillanueva]

BLESS YOU !!! ANOTHER RARE JEWEL FROM OUR DAME'S CROWN !!!

[@larryloverde1629]

2 wish’s. I wish I was there and wish there was a video of this somewhere.

[@purpletc1]

OMG I was at that performance!

[@AkaiGX]

Lucky you!!!!!

[@davidhansel897]

Thank you for posting this! Overture: 0:05 Act 1: 06:34 Marie's Entrance: 15:38 "Chacun le sait": 28:08 "Ah, mes amis": 51:36 "Il faut partir": 1:00:15 Act 2: 1:10:40 Lesson Scene: 1:16:29 "Par le rang": 1:26:10 "Pour me rapprocher": 1:37:31 Finale: 1:51:53

[@fabianpersic]

Estupendo!!! Muchas gracias por compartirlo!!! Saludos desde Buenos Aires.

[@mohsenarambon]

Thanks

[@Un_Gordo_De_Derecha]

Thanks for sharing!!!!

[@asterflamm]

Ci hanno provato in tanti e tante ma Bonynge Sutherland e Pavarotti nella Figlia del Reggimento sono insuperabili. Punto.

[@joseluisSarre]

Wonderfull Post! THanks to the posters!

[@josephcollins6033]

WOW!!!!! Thanks so very much!!!!!

[@ktrewin23]

OOH!! Many thanks!

[@Вадим-т9к]

Greetings from Kyiv! This is unique, thank you very much! Maybe you can answer the question. On the title picture, next to the title of the opera and the performers, I see the same signature as on the box of my studio recording. Do you know what kind of signature this is?

[@AkaiGX]

That is Joan's own signature! The thumbnail is a postcard that Joan signed at the Met for people who brought them backstage to be signed.

[@Вадим-т9к]

@@AkaiGX , I’m so pleased to hear the good news now, thank you very much for your answer!♥️🙏 I bought this record from the Amazon online store as a used one, it turns out I was very lucky, this is a great find!!! Do you agree?

[@matthewbbenton]

51:37 - Ah! mes amis… 55:48 - Pour mon âme

[@robinstamper2446]

Uhhh…the soprano is decent too… lol.

[@AkaiGX]

Welcome to the Sutherland ecosystem! 😏