Placido Domingo, Joan Sutherland, "Le Contes d'Hoffman"

[maestromuffin1]

my gosh - every time I hear this it gives me shivers. i just think that if I were to have heard sutherland and domingo(or sills and pavarotti) live together - i would have expired in my seat. I did catch the later years of all of their careers( but by that time they were transposing down and not in their primes!) ie - the mad scene in Lucia is in E flat, not E Flat. no worries...we have youtube!!!!

[thomastmwc]

La Stupenda's rotund, sonorous, sweet voice! OMG!

[maestromuffin1]

notice this is not Helas, mon coeur

[TheValentino74]

@maestromuffin1 is true,the name is adieu je ne veux pas te suivre this aria goes at the end

[maestromuffin1]

I love this...but if I remember the recording - it does not take place at the end of the Venice scene, like it normally does. and who can forget Joan taking all those notes up an octave at the end....yea!!!!

[ceb2633]

There were many productions in which the Venice scene came last, and some in which it was sandwiched in the middle. I personally liked it at the end...of course followed by the REAL end. Thanks for the comment.

[maestromuffin1]

ceb...not what I meant, this sextet is normally at the end of the Venice scene - but in this recording - it comes somewhere else,I know the venice scene can come before or after the Antonia scene.

[fadasutherland]

fantastic this recording of this ensemble.

I love Sutherland and she is unsurpassed.

[ceb2633]

This is one of my  all time favorite recordings, period. What a cast! What an opera! And glorious Sutherland in all parts. Thanks for the comment.

[ceb2633]

You are welcome! Thanks for listening

[sutherlandfan64]

La crême de la crême of singing! Love Joan in a super human performance (all four parts, both in recording and on stage!), love Placido and love the very fine Bacquier!

[petelovesbevsills]

Special Joanie and incomparable Placido!!! Cannot believe it is over 35 years since this recording was released!!!!! I do hope today's mediocre singers listen to this very carefully before thinking of singing or recording this.

[ceb2633]

I certainly agree with you. I am so fortunate to have lived through the time of the greatest! And have some of the oldest vinyl in the world to prove it. Thanks for listening.

[JDOopera76]

Sadly enough, I have read some things lately which make me believe today's young singers do not appreciate her work at all : {