Joan Sutherland Documentary: La Stupenda (With Pavarotti, Marilyn Horne, Franco Zeffirelli)

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Documentary portrait of Dame Joan Sutherland (1926-2010) - one of the greatest opera singers of all times. With appearances by Luciano Pavarotti and Marilyn Horne and excerpts from famous performances (such as Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor).
From the tv program "Musique & Compagnie" (France 3, 1996).
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Chapters
▷ 00:00 - Introduction: Musique & Compagnie
▷ 03:04 - Joan Sutherland - La Stupenda: A Grand Career
▷ 06:14 - Pavarotti & Sutherland
▷ 09:53 - Childhood in Australia and Career Beginnings: Finding Her Voice
▷ 20:21 - Donizetti - Lucrece Borgia
▷ 27:34 - Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor
▷ 33:46 - Bellini - Les Puritains
▷ 36:10 - International Fame, Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Horne
▷ 47:00 - Sydney Opera House 1990: Farewell to Opera
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At the Sydney Opera House, on October 2nd 1990, Dame Joan Sutherland bade farewell to opera. As she gave her last performance, as Marguerite de Valois in The Australian Opera production of Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots, she could look back on a professional singing career spanning 42 years, in all the great opera houses of the world. This film presents a retrospective of those years.
What makes Sutherland's story so fascinating is that her success was achieved against great odds and that she remains completely unspoilt by it.
When she started out in England in 1951, she had a God-given voice, broad Australian accent and a large, ungainly body. With the help of her husband, the director and conductor Richard Bonynge, she learnt how to use her voice to best advantage. Coached by Norman Ayrton and Franco Zeffirelli, she overcame her physical awkwardness and diffidence to become a superb dramatic actress, capable of both moving audiences to tears and rolling them in the aisles. Her professional success was staggering; in the history of opera she will be placed alongside the very greatest singers of the past - Lind, Patti, Melba - her fellow countrywomen - and Maria Callas, from whom she took over as the world's foremost exponent of the bel canto repertoire.
It was at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden that she achieved international stardom, in her performance as Lucia di Lammermoor in 1959. She returned there on New Year's Eve 1991, along with her friends and colleagues of many years, Luciano Pavarotti and Marilyn Horne, to make a guest appearance in the Party Scene in Die Fledermaus. Film of this moving occasion is included in the programme.
Encompassing her final performances in Les Huguenots and Die Fledermaus, interviews, a nostalgic visit to The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, newsreel footage and a wealth of performance extracts in which she is seen in some of her greatest roles - Lucia di Lammermoor, La Fille du régiment, Lucrezia Borgia and Lakmé. Contributions from close friends and colleagues, including Luciano Pavarotti, Marilyn Horne, critic Bernard Levin, Norman Ayrton, Franco Zeffirelli, and her biographer Norma Major, add to a celebration of Dame Joan's remarkable talent.
Original title: La Stupenda - A Portrait of Dame Joan Sutherland
Directed by Derek Bailey
Produced by RM Associates/Landseer Films/Film Australia
in association with BBC Television, The Decca Record Company,
Radio Telefis Eireann, RTP and NOS-TV
© 1991, Licensed by Digital Classics Distribution
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@operalover42 2 ай бұрын

La seule et unique ! La meilleure de tous les temps

@soniasalinas7034 Ай бұрын

Excelsa Señora Joan. Por su carrera destacada .muchas gracias por mostrarnos su trabajo tan finamente logrado ,siento tanto que nos haya dejado para descansar bajo el manto de la Mater alllá está con el desordenado Luciano quien fuera su gran amigo y yunta de.técnicas vocal también con la sra Caballé y tantas voces maravillosas que hoy descansan .Mi respeto a su familia ,Dulce Paz a su espíritu ,lo hizo magnífico . Desde Chile . 🙏🌹🇨🇱🌺🌺

@cadoh8143 5 ай бұрын

Merci beaucoup. J'aime Sutherland. C'est ma Primadonna assoluta.

@alexandremassipe8781 10 ай бұрын

Quelle carrière et quelle voix spectaculaire, stupefiante en effet. Et une interprète qui paraît pourtant très humaine malgré une voix qui semble parfois surnaturelle tant elle est véloce.

@MadininaCarribean 9 ай бұрын

Oui ce n'était pas une reine de glace comme Callas.

@wotan10950 9 ай бұрын

I had the great opportunity to see her onstage in some of her great roles, beginning in 1973, in New York. I also saw her in recital in Brooklyn and Buffalo NY, of all places! An extraordinary sound, and a voice that could apparently do anything.

@operabilia 6 ай бұрын

"Belle" voix n'est sans doute pas le meilleur qualificatif pour Sutherland! Mais "puissante" "virtuose" "stupéfiante" "étonnante" et surtout, "miraculeuse". Ce fut le plus édifiant et puissant soprano drammatico d'agilità du XXème siècle.

@eloyguevara9447 8 ай бұрын

voz super solida.......................................................imponente.....................................

@jeanottoto2518 7 ай бұрын

Fantastique Joan , vu dans Lucrezia et Lucia avec Alfredo Kraus !

@jeannot524music Ай бұрын

Hello and good day! Can someone kindly tell me what is the first introducing piano piece played at the onset of this marvelous 1hr program about La Stupenda? Thanks a lot!ù Kind regards to all.

@edithhenson6917 4 ай бұрын

She sings like a bird!! Beautiful

@jondavwal13 9 ай бұрын

Why show clips from the last two years of her career? It was remarkable how well she sang in her 60s but it’s not really representative of why she was La Stupenda.

@ahogbin2644 9 ай бұрын

I agree and there are clips from the 60s and 70s available. I heard her live from 1980 and she was still La Stupenda in Lucrezia Borgia and the final London Lucias in 1985. After that her voice did begin to wind down as she said but she could still astonish as late as a concert in Newcastle in 1989, despite a bomb hoax!

@jeanottoto2518 7 ай бұрын

22:13