Early Dame Joan Sutherland blasts the Universe with her Laser Eb6

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[@alioffe4321]

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." Dame Joan Sutherland has graced us with the voice of the century, and her beautiful songs. May she rest in peace!

[@LohengrinTheo]

Legend says that once in Covent Garden Sutherland capped the end of this aria with a sustained F6

[@vxhorusxv]

@@LohengrinTheo there's an interview available online she did with Marilyn Horne where they were both asked the highest notes they ever sang and the Dame's response was: "I once shrieked an F-sharp." !

[@LohengrinTheo]

@@vxhorusxv in my bathtab I also sing C7s 😎 we mean onstage and inside difficult operas ...

[@vxhorusxv]

Lohengrin Theo such extension!

[@LohengrinO]

@@vxhorusxv ahahahahahahahahahha, all the way up ! :D

[@fclpjg]

What a way to end the day! The singer that hooked me onto music, at her most joyous and virtuosic...

[@ryan.engstrom]

I love this picture!!! And she sounds glorious of course. I was hooked into opera by her later recording of Sonnambula with Pavarotti :)

[@fido652]

Oh, God - to have been there !

[@LohengrinO]

close your eyes and be there...

[@ESilva-gw9ig]

This is a lesson on bel canto singing. Unbelievable. Nobody comes even close to her nowadays. Unique and unsurpassed.

[@thesoubretteoftheopera7313]

E. Silva Few came close to her in her day. Surpassed only by La Divina.

[@thesoubretteoftheopera7313]

@@Tkimba2 I'd say she surpassed

[@tonyventura4605]

No one surpasses Sutherland in her prime. Not even Callas…

[@richiesol20]

@@tonyventura4605 you're saying too much

[@nathandavis3002]

love that picture! Never seen it before! I always was amazed by this recording.

[@mariacasemyr]

Marvellous singing by Dame Sutherland ❤️

[@dramaturge231]

Thank you, JESUS!!!! 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿

[@octaviohernandez18]

Not fioritura but firetura...exquisite pyrotechnics--a performance for the ages.

[@OperaMyWorld]

In her Crazy Vocal Prime!!! Really in Exciting Voice!!! In 1961 at Carnegie Hall with Nicola Rescigno conducting!!

[@ThomasDawkins88]

If you really want to be further stunned by this performance, apparently she had a lingering cold and still managed to sound like that!

[@LohengrinO]

...there is a rumour that in some of her Covent Garden Sonnambulas, dame Joan crowned the end of this aria with a sustained F6

[@OperaMyWorld]

Lohengrin O I have heard many people who stated this and also some of them had said that they actually heard this F6!!

[@LohengrinO]

@@OperaMyWorld ... can you imagine a Full Body F6... because the F6s of canary birds are difficult notes but they appear quite often within the context of that type of Voice... a full body, thick columned, sustained F6 from a Callas / Sutherland type of Voice is impossible

[@OperaMyWorld]

Lohengrin O If their High E sounded like earthquakes, I can’t imagine what would happened to their F6!!!!!!

[@feeniix6]

La Stupenda

[@elsaasta5164]

..... Mi inchino difronte a tanta beltà e grandioso talento.... Un capolavoro di bravura!! Beautiful davvero e un grande grazie a te caro Lohengrin0. 🎀👋🎀👋🎀👋🎀Elsa

[@PeterBrodie]

Spectacular! I've had a bit of time off from your channel, Lohengrin O, busy with other things. What a way to return!

[@carloszenon4562]

Speechless!!! Thank you God

[@jmiller05]

My favourite Sutherland role.

[@alioffe4321]

I'd go with Elvira in bel canto and Alcina in baroque.

[@LohengrinO]

@@alioffe4321 Alcina for me… forever and ever

[@jmiller05]

@@LohengrinO Definitely top 3 for me too.... Amina, Alcina and the last one is subject to a few contests ha.

[@LohengrinO]

@@jmiller05 ...and Elvira which is her undisputable bel canto creation...

[@jmiller05]

@@LohengrinO Agreed. I also adore her Donna Anna and Turandot... Call me mad but I even prefer her Turandot to her Lucia.

[@ktrewin23]

That shock, when the applause comes in, and you realise it's live! What a night that must have been.

[@PABLOGARCIA-gb5ih]

La STUPENDA dando cátedra de canto...

[@cosimoepicoco7022]

Stupefacente!

[@NLidar]

Jaw dropping, unbelievable singing with an orgasmatronical trill at 2:39. But the conducting is truly grotesque...

[@johnfox7985]

Yes, I thought that, too! Was he in a rush to get to the bar that evening, I wonder 🤔

[@NLidar]

@@johnfox7985 It sounds like he is avenging Sutherland for something lol. Perhaps it is a situation similar to when de Sabata conducted Macbeth's sleepwalking scene with Callas (at La Scala, 1952) extra-fast because apparently Callas told him that he should be listening to HER and not the other way around because og her eyesight problems while she was onstage

[@johnfox7985]

@@NLidar When a singer's ego clashes with that of a conductor's, all hell breaks loose haha! That said, Callas and Sutherland negotiated speedy tempi with ease...

[@highbaritone]

Here I sit in the Bangkok airport about to board a flight home to OZ. WHAT A SEND OFF. In four days we head to Germany, France and Athens. We have four operas in Paris. After doing some homework I am a bit fearful of the quality we will be hearing. Maybe I should stop listening to your posts for a while to give the singers we will be hearing a break.

[@LohengrinTheo]

...or come back to my posts after them so that you can even more appreciate the Heaven

[@rodrigokamilo]

Perfection!!!

[@cosimoepicoco7022]

...mi associo all'applauso!

[@eloyguevara9447]

UNA PASADA VOCAL....INTERMINABLE.......Y ESPLENDOROSAMENTE HERMOSA................................

[@highbaritone]

Of course I won’t. Thank you again. ❤️👋🇦🇺

[@jordipanadesribera6890]

Stupendissima !!

[@natanaelgorrin9473]

Estupenda es poco, sigo insistiendo que sus funciones dirigidas por maestros distintos a su maridos sacaban toda la garra y fuerza de esta gran artista.

[@victoriagrapsidou3474]

Εκπληκτική φωνή και ερμηνεία!!!

[@lamiremilamila]

Superbe !

[@aetion]

Αυτό δεν είναι φωνή. Είναι ήχος αρχαίου αυλού! Ευχαριστώ Τεό. Η ποιότητα των αναρτήσεών σου είναι μοναδική.

[@arnoldamaral7406]

Vintage DAME JOAN👑 TY MY FRIEND. Arnold Bourbon Amaral

[@ramonmontesdeoca5278]

¡EXTRAORDINARIA!

[@antaxerxes3138]

Joanie IS Amina…

[@RicharddtheStar]

Still hard to Believe that Amina and Norma was created by the same singer.

[@LohengrinO]

Pasta was probably the Callas of the 19th century

[@RicharddtheStar]

Tomba 2 Malibrán was more like Callas in versatility . Callas had a programe print from the 19 century that she had explained to their students during her masterclasses that Malibrán more than once performed Amina in la sonnambula and Leonore on Fidelio in the same night ! You can listen to her telling her students in a audio clip here in KZbin and you can hear the students gasp in shock.

[@LohengrinO]

@@RicharddtheStar ..if you read the descriptions of Pasta's voice by Henry Chorley, as a 3 timbrically different registers with metalic and often dark, choked sound was the Callas equivalent... Malibran I think was more on the contralto side (she had sung Arsace) and I dont think we have heard the 20th century equivalent of Malibran as I also dont believe there was a Sutherland equivalent in the 19th century, comparisons of Sutherland to Jenny Lind are unfair for Sutherland's HUGE sound

[@RicharddtheStar]

Lohengrin O Sutherland 19 century equivalent was Angelica Catalani a soprano with a three octave range and a voice that was supposedly as huge as a castrato( she was trained by one). Like Callas and Sutherland comparison , critics would compare Catalani to pasta in that she was superior vocally to pasta but was dramaticly very inferior and clumsy. Kinda like Sutherland ;).

[@LohengrinO]

@@RicharddtheStar But Sutherland never had an active 3 octave range, by choice she was singing mainly in her top and middle registers while the low register remained atrophic and unused... if she was an active 3 octave range singer she would have sung the Assoluta repertoire which by choice she did not... castrato??? Sutherland?..

[@marcoscorvo2514]

2:07 Eb6

[@jorgerega6717]

Sin gracia....