
THIS PROJECT IS RESERVED ONLY FOR THE GREATEST! Please comment Dame Joan Sutherland! Joan Sutherland, Soprano (1926-2010) Giuseppe Verdi - Rigoletto Caro nome With Riccardo Cassinelli, Tenor Christian du Plessis, Baritone (Recorded 1971) My personal opinion: "She threw back my work for about 100 years!" Not exactly nice words Maria Callas had for Joan Sutherland. The australian primadonna as well reanimated belcanto-singing anew, but Callas was a dramatic, Sutherland a virtuoso. Callas was in the tradition of Giuditta Pasta and Lilli Lehmann, Sutherland a successor of Adelina Patti, one of 19th century nightingales. Sutherland stepped into Callas´ footprints in 1959 singing Lucia under Tullio Serafin at Covent Garden. When Callas passed her prime in the early sixtys, the career of a new primadonna began: Joan Sutherland, shortly afterwards called "La stupenda!" Sutherland was born in Sydney. At 18 she started studying voice. In 1947 she made her concert debut as Dido, in 1951 her stage debut. Then she went to London to further her studies at the Royal Opera School. ROHCG engaged her as utility, in 1952 she sang Clotilde in Norma beside Callas. One month after that, she sang her first leading role as Amelia. In 1954 she married australian conductor Richard Bonynge, who convinced her to sing the coloratura Fach and that she should explore the whole repertory of Belcanto. 1960 she recorded the album "The Art of the Prima Donna", a collection of known and unknown coloratura <b>...</b>
Joan
Sutherland
Verdi
Rigoletto
Caro
nome
Belcanto
Bonynge
Horne
Pavarotti
Golden
Age
Massenet
Esclarmonde
Traviata
Norma
Bellini
Donizetti
Rossini
Sonnambula
Lucrezia
Borgia
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