Gaetano Donizetti - Emilia di Liverpool - "Confusa e alma" (Joan Sutherland) (1957)

[Swan607]

Thanks for posting. I was looking for this. Thanks!!! :-)

[Arellessful]

What a classy singer, and lady, her husband was a very wise man.

[andrebontemp]

thank you for this aria beautifully sung by Dame Joan but even if it is'nt as famous as Lucia but with Joan plus Donizetti one cann't be disapointed .

the voice is crystallike love it

JMB

[primohomme]

Perfect vocalism

[thessalonica1]

good bye dear joan... always a great, a goddess!

[artdanks]

Thank you for posting. I have never heard this particular recording. I was familiar with another from the same era that she recoded of this aria, with piano accompaniment. I liked it even better. Same purity and clarity, but stronger sound. But it is also very nice to hear it with orchestra. And I agree, early Sutherland is the best.

[GreenGoddessofGaia]

Thanks for posting this, we're doing this opera in Nürnberg, Germany this season.

[21donbar1]

Thanks, LindoroRossini, for your many fine uploads. Keep them coming!!!

[manonscate69]

her singing is perfection

[manonscate69]

ella es el canto perfeccion

[leoperarm]

SO WONDERFUL!!!

[MisterSoprano]

Poor Sutherland.

[Hako2004]

Feel sorry for those that don't recognize great singing, and never will.

[MisterSoprano]

You should not judge other peoples taste, cause everyone of us has a different one and you should respect it - as I respect yours. I dont like Sutherland's colour of the voice, but it doesen't has anything to do with the fact she was a good singer, but sorry, listening to this clip you could not say that.

[hisimperialmajesty]

Well you should remember that this is prior to her debut in Lucia (i.e., before she had fully mastered the technique of Bel Canto) and also before her sinus surgery (also in 1959) which significantly altered the tone of her voice (I would argue that it was altered for the better).

[Hako2004]

You comment wasn't respectful, it was a thinly veiled put-down, so don't lecture me on respect. You don't have to care for the "color" of her voice to recognize she doesn't require your "pity". As for this recording, perhaps you would care to regale us with your profound grasp of the vocal arts? What exactly is so wrong with her singing her....besides that fact that you don't like her I mean? I will wait with baited breath for your astute observations and insights.

[MisterSoprano]

You started to giving me "lectures", so please don't try to make it like I've started it... I do not intend to go that low to prove my skils and knoledge of the vocal arts, will just tell you this: its not true I do not like her (she's quite good in some roles, even very in some), but the problem is YOU like her too much to be objective. I am ending this useful discusion.

[Babs22h]

when she pops up to that note at 5:53 sounds 5:57 what is that note? ridiculous!!!!!!!! it sounds like a squeak on this recording though i am sure it wasnt in the theater...

[Hako2004]

That note, and the final note, are Eb.

[blktenor]

What is the plot for this opera?

[operaspark]

I'm so used to listening to Joan's voice from later in her career that it always surprises me how 'fresh' her voice used to be...i find her voice darkened later in career. You have to love Donizetti, Sutherland makes it sound so easy too!

[agnellodei]

marvelous! her voice is so light and beautiful here

[hisimperialmajesty]

Wow. This is beautiful. And may I just say, LindoroRossini, this being your first of many subsequent videos, that it's been an honor to watch all the wonderful videos you've posted to YouTube.

[Operaphile]

I concur!!!! LindoroRossini is wonderful!! Keep it up pleeeeeeeease :)

[VivaMariaCallas]

Too good!

[petelovesbevsills]

Stunning adorable incomparable Joan!!!

BRAVA!!!

[myrtillocactus]

thank u lindoro... this is really wonderful

[Fredzeblak]

She really had started blooming! When you listen to her voice at that time, difficult to imagine she would be the perfect Turandot 15 years later.

[nikolaimedtner]

can't stop listening this wonderful recordings, thanks for uploading

[mdancer01]

tklogan11809 i totally agree with you

the voice on the 70s and 80s gave more drama effect

and with the same perfection

but in contrast i love her 1959 recordign of lucia

[tklogan11809]

for the record this is from Donizetti's Emilia di Liverpool, which Sutherland performed in 1957. I might be in the minority, but I prefer her in the 70s and even early 80s, when she became the REAL Sutherland, dark and dramatic, with stunningly clear high notes. Here she sounds like a canary. Pretty with perfect pitch, sure, but birdlike.

[ezayitas]

Thanks LindoroRossini... this is just spectacular!!!

[alfemv76]

Simplemente, maravilloso; una voz angelical, pura, diáfana y hermosa!!!

[ATsarIsBorn]

She had, originally (in her 20s and early 30s) both a silver voice (heard here and, ideally, in her O luce di quest' anima on her first recital disk) and a heavier, golden voice. (The voice was always so large the coloratura was unbelievable.) Around 1962-3 she underwent a vocal crisis (including, I believe, throat surgery that could easily have ended her career) and the silver voice was gone.

[dyingswine]

It is a bit hard for me to believe it's Sutherland singinging here!!I have always despised and accused her vocal skills as related to her coloratura roles(which she performed at middle 60's~70's when she was discribed on her prime as "color-soprano of century")But her voice sounds marvelous,(completely different):girlishly sweet and agile;staccatos clear and silverbell-like; the final Eb is beautiful without a hint of strain.That's what she shoud've always been.

[ezayitas]

And that´s what she always was. Whether you liked it or not, she was and still is one of the greatest of the century... and who cares about what you accused her?... she was, is and will be gorgeous ALWAYS!

[LindoroRossini]

Sutherland really was a wonderful singer, but I really do think that her earliest recitals are the best recordings of her singing. In 1950 - 1961 she really had it all: a very powerful but a very gentle voice; superb coloratura; seamless legato; great diction; and, most importantly, a special warmth that gave deepth to anything she sang. If I had to choose between Sutherland before 1962 and Sutherland after 1962 I would certainly choose the former.

[sevoflurane]

I agree LindoroRossini. Her early recitals and operatic performances were brilliant and the diction was very good. I wonder if it is because she stopped working with Italian directors and only worked with Bonynge...I believe she was at her greatest with Serafin, Molinari Pradelli and Rescigno.

[Operaphile]

I concur! Pre-mid-60s Dame joan is my favourite "voice" of all time!!!!

Which disc is this from?

[LindoroRossini]

It's from a CD of highlights from a performance of "Emilia di Liverpool" :).

[Operaphile]

Ah yes, I know which one. It's on my "to-buy" list. Thanks!

[LindoroRossini]

Still, thank you very much for your opinion :-) . If you have the time, please check my other downloads.

[ezayitas]

I will... thanks for this treasure!!!

[mxwhisper]

Many thank you's for all these wonderful uploads of early Dame Joan. It's so wonderful to hear her early singing, so rare!. Again thank you.

[mxwhisper]

I have never heard this before, so beautiful.

[waterfordwinstons]

Dank u well lindororossini thank you loved it

[mariogorga]

Funny thing in this video first a portrait of Jenny Lind as La Sonnambula,Lind a favorite of Joan,then she was compared to Tetrazzini and Galli-Curci another 2 of her favorites..For those who always criticize Joan should listen to this recordings she was unique!!Thank you LindoroRossini for this wonderful postings,now days they are not avaible any where!!

[bosancherosi]

it almost doesn't even sound like her. I think it's gentle and nice but I prefer her more mature sound. She sounds like she is singing with 1/3 of her voice here.

[Hiigar]

I think she sounds so because it's actually a live recording (I think that there is a full opera recording with Sutherland somewhere).

[jondavwal]

Very interesting. Definitely the greatest instrument I've ever heard. But I think despite the fact that she became a superstar in 1959 that her voice really reached it's peak in the early 60s. She sounds like a mixture of Galli-Curci and Tetrazzini in this.

[remrom2]

thanks for sharing----brava joan.

remrom2

[pigsears]

Well done! I love that CD, is it the one with "candida rosa"? If not, I try to upload it, but I haven't found out how to do that yet (not a very technical person) but you are all making such efforts and I enjoy listening to it all and would like to contribute, so maybe until soon! ;-)

[BDL88]

wow! that was nice! It barely even sounds like Joan Sutherland. She sounds so young and fresh, as you said. Thanks for the upload! :)

[strauss1987]

At the beginning she sounded more like Galli-Curci. Just gorgeous.