Joan Sutherland Great Singing at 60! + Huge Ovation (Lucrezia Borgia, 1989)

Lucrezia Borgia's last scene.
13:29 Act 2: Era desso il figlio mio.
Barcelona
1989

[@timtonruben359]

She sounded like she could have stayed on that final note for hours. There will never be another Sutherland.

[@kristijangrdjan6031]

Even younger sopranos struggle with sudden changes between low and high tones of this sequence, but not Sutherland. She is superb in every sense, operatic Godess.

[@crazyorganist1609]

Even at 63 her voice was massive. Soprano's today can't touch her

[@ahogbin2644]

That final Dflat would have been superb from any soprano at any age. She was truly the voice of the century in this repertoire!

[@arnoldamaral7406]

A Hogbin MARIA CALLAS, MONTSERRAT CABALLE THEN DAME JOAN SUTHERLAND. MADAME PRICE IS 4TH MY FRIEND. 👏👸👑👑👑👑🌿🌍🌎🌏

[@josephhapp9]

Arnold Amaral when did Callas do it at the same age? Ashes across the Oceans.

[@canpete1]

Absolutely La Stupenda..along with Caruso, the voice of the century.

[@operabilia]

I was there, as I also attended the farewell concert as Lucrezia at the TCE in Paris: she was AMAZING! Huge drammatico d'agilità soprano in full bloom: the public went WILD too!

[@chrisryan9071]

Oh, thank you for sharing that splendid memory!

[@operabilia]

@@chrisryan9071 With great pleasure!!!

[@baritonebynight]

It's amazing that Dame Joan sang the most difficult repertoire extremely well so late in her career. Her final Lucia was in 1988. Her final Norma and Lucrezia in 1989. By 1990 at her farewell performance she stated "the old voice is starting to wind down"...but a wound down Dame Joan is better than most in their prime.

[@tjpark8609]

Amazing !!! The greatest soprano throughout all the centuries !!!

[@photo161]

Iluv every stage in her vocal development. Here the voice is like dark flowing velvet that pours out from a bottomless well of unfathomable, ineffable beauty.

[@shannonlewis8906]

Very well said ❤️

[@herrbrucvald6376]

She was 62 years, 6 months, and 24 days old here ! This is a televised performance at Barcelona's GRAN TEATRE DEL LICEU on 31 May 1989 with Alfredo Kraus, Martine Dupuy, Simone Alaimo and cond. Richard Bonynge.

[@pelleas9]

This was not a concert performance but a staged performance. She gave it in concert some weeks later in Paris.

[@arnoldamaral7406]

Pelleas 1902 picky picky aren't you mr. Critical just hush up. And enjoy this great lady singing her heart out. Arnold Bourbon Amaral LA STUPENDA MY FRIEND! 🙏👑👏👸🌿🌏🌎🌍🌿🌹

[@wilsonwatt9283]

Notice that she is not the only long-lived singer here. Alfredo Kraus, who also had an astounding technical mastery of his voice, is also over 60 yet sound better that any currently performing tenor of any age.

[@PeteBMan]

​@wilsonwatt9283 fully agree. They kept their total instruments in such shape. Should be well studied by those attempting to reach Parnassus as both Sutherland and Kraus did.

[@lastupendaboy]

Joan always reduced the audience to tears and cheers… devastating live!!!And for over 30 years all over the world!!! This at 62, astounding…!

[@jessicaf6358]

15:55 starts the applause. PHENOMENAL singing well deserving of it.

[@christiaandhooghe]

My God, that last note…….!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Spot on!!!

[@photo161]

A high Dflat!

[@65attila]

Sutherland had a great voice and technique hence this great singing at an age when most singers are retired.

[@chrisryan9071]

This is indeed A most remarkable performance. Wr are all grateful for the posting, Thank you!

[@wilsonwatt9283]

It is quite revealing here what she could do when she no longer was worried about preserving the voice. What a shame that she did not do the three Donizetti queens in her late period. I saw her as Bolena in Chicago and she was spectacular. Recordings and films show she was also a great Stuarda. Why could she not have done Elisabetta as well is a mystery. Here she shows that the role was clearly within even her latest voice capacity and she might have brought a really different dramatic perspective to it.

[@richardholmesmusic2128]

I’ve said this before, but she had no interest at all in singing in Devereux”. She disliked Elizabeth I and when I asked her about the role she said the role contained too much yelling and pushing on the chest voice.

[@danielintheantipodes6741]

I love the applause at the end!

[@delboy13]

Had it on video when it came out. Yesterday was listening to de Decca recording with Jaume Aragall and Marilyn Horne..1978.

[@randysills4418]

Sutherland was born on November 7, 1926, so she actually would have been 62 or 63 here...

[@andreagazza7611]

LA STUPENDA 🤩🤩

[@MrQwerty88]

She would have been like 63 here

[@debbiewoodburn6786]

Wow!

[@juanbartolomeburgosolivero9304]

LA STUPENDA CON EL INIGUALABLE ALFREDO KRAUS

[@jeffsmith6295]

The world will never again see her equal.

[@magicmonkichi]

I dislike singers that hold the final note too long...yet she cuts hers off RIGHT where u want just a LITTLE bit more.....makes me crazy! ^_^

[@jimbuxton2187]

If you've got it ...hold it !

[@ANNEAish]

Remember some nights like this at ROH!

[@Pachinanonim]

Ovación bien merecida.

[@juanitoalimana3131]

Las escalas y cadencias del final...

[@OperaMyWorld]

Is this from Barcelona or Paris? Do you have the complete performance?

[@delosmike2030]

This is the Paris concert version. She's in even better voice than in Barcelona. Astonishing singing.

[@Mandolino82]

Come sua abitudine abbassa sepsso la tonalità e sembra un gallinaccio...

[@carlo4863]

ti confondi con i concerti a dallas

[@Mandolino82]

quì ha abbassato e spesso a fine carriera lo ha fatto, vocalmente incommentabile.

[@operabilia]

Bé francamente, mi ritengo di mandarla a f___o per una tale vergognosa assurdità.

[@rogalesi58]

terribile

[@larrywoods6318]

What an idiotic thing to say. Sing it better for us would you please. Surely you must be able to given your comment. Or isn't you falsetto working this week.

[@rogalesi58]

@@larrywoods6318 I’m stayed on what I said, at her prime she was wonderful.sorry to disappointing you. Where is the falsetto.

[@operabilia]

@@rogalesi58 Falsetto? Listen to pop music instead and with a mike.

[@rogalesi58]

@@operabilia 😂