Fall Fund Drive Fever feat. “LA STUPENDA”: The Voice of Joan Sutherland [1926-2010]
Dame Joan Sutherland was an Australian coloratura soprano who specialized in the bel canto operatic repertoire. Today we listen to scenes and arias from Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Bellini’s Norma, and Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann and more. Click here for NPR’s 2010 tribute.
From The Charlie Rose Show in 1998:
From The Dinah Shore Show in 1963, with Ella Fitzgerald:
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Richard Bonynge & Joan Sutherland, “Act I, Scene 4”
from Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Decca - 1972