Joan Sutherland - Non mi dir

[operfanpadova]

davvero incredibile, nel rondò finale è strepitosa: che nitidezza, che precisione: L'ESECUZIONE DI RIFERIMENTO PER TUTTI DI QUESTO PEZZO. Nella prima parte un legato ed un fiato pazzesco.....perfino la callas in questo pezzo passa in secondo piano rispetto a Joan: GRANDIOSA.

[DiegoMartinazzoli]

@operfanpadova Probabilmente ti devi sentire anche la Gruberova in questo pezzo... Sicuramente più "di riferimento" e miglior coloratura di questa

[JeeRant]

Oh, geez, she's wearing one of those dresses you could fit a circus under. Great singing, if a little stiff. I don't really sympathize with Sutherland's Anna.

[arcticbramble]

She sings absolutely impeccably, but it is very heavy for the Mozart style in fashion nowadays.

[cltony1987]

This is very thrilling. Hearing a voice of that size and warmth doing the coluratura and, of course, the sustained passages, make this performance unique. She is not doing any superficial acting which is so common in modern productions. All of the drama of the piece comes out in her voice. No silly faces or forced histrionics just pure vocal drama! Brava, Dame Joan. Requiescat in pace.

[leprincebeaumont]

Sontuosa, elegante, linea morbidissima, canto miracolosamente sul fiato! E che volete di più?! Joan, sei la più grande!

[musicalme27]

you go girl!!!!!!

[irregularverb37]

Plus she scoops a lot.

[irregularverb37]

To me, her voice was always too heavy. It amazes me that she was actually able to do coloratura with that voice (before she retired).

[wotan10950]

There is no point comparing Sutherland and Caballe and Callas and Sills, they were all great artists. Sutherland's voice was a wonder of nature, can there be any question? More important, Sutherland said that Donna Anna did NOT have any kind of affair or attraction to Giovanni, although everyone today says there was. She said Non mi dir has the most beautiful, honest melody, not the singing of a liar. I agree with her.

[AgnesRegina]

@wotan10950 Earlier in the opera Donna Anna describes to Don Ottavio what happened in her room: a man entered her room and at first she thought it was Ottavio himself, but then he covered her mouth to keep her from screaming and she only escaped rape by struggling desperately. I like that Sutherland described "Non mi dir" as an honest melody... it's the perfect word!

[claudiocp35]

Everything, Sutherland was everything.

[OrpheuCe]

Yes...Edda Moser could sung this very beautifully, and more Mozart style....but Shuterland rocks!!! as always

[Lanark8]

Great singing here forn Dear joan.

[jelencicaa]

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!

[taskosalence]

The best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[leslielandberg]

Nebeshiku has a tin ear. Now we all know it. And a foul mouth. And doesn't know (or doesn't care) to appear ignorant. Thank God the world doesn't turn on your opinion and sensible people prefer to ignore you.

[uniqueattack]

WOW! great job. sounds like it's very difficult to sing...even for her!

[harapalb100]

She was the best in UK, perhaps. Come on folks, you never heard of EDITA GRUBEROVA?

[leslielandberg]

She's the best singer I've heard, now that my voice and my technique are professional, I'm looking around to see who sings like me, who is most musical, whose "legend" is real and who is coasting on some kind of diva-worship. After all, many opera-lovers don't have the thorough background I've aquired after years of study and discussion. Sutherland is a 10, worth all her cred, and I was shocked to discover, Callas is just awful, now that I know good from bad. I loved her when I was young.

[NEBESHIKU]

Poor stupit little thing! Tell us all about your triumphs. TOo bad the BBC never heard of you other wise maybe they would of put you as number one instead of Callas on their Top 20 Soprano List. Get real Netrebko is the only whore who got lucky i don't think you will have such luck.

[vitellia]

Watching this made me wonder what the point was with the subsequent Don Giorvanni productions at the Met (the two "new" productions with Carol Vaness and Renee Fleming). THEY REALLY ALL LOOK THE SAME! Yes, all great singers and all, but I really wouldn't have noticed much change theatrically if Vaness and Fleming had been still singing in this old production or in their productions.

[callastoujours]

Bravissima! I could say that I prefer this version over Calla's, I find it more passionate!

[NEBESHIKU]

Sutherland more passionate than Callas!!! You must be really high!

[callastoujours]

Only in this particular rendition. I feel that Callas respects more the style (Mozart), resigning a little bit the passion, I mean, I find Callas technically perfect. It's my opinion.

[mikieJim]

Voice of the century

[yodavidnavarro]

She'll never die. Even when her body weren't warm, She'll live in the history. But you?...You'll die forever...

[leoperarm]

You're welcome, I try to help people not to be like you.

I thought you had another name, but do whatever you want with your pathetic 'life'.

[leoperarm]

Alive, and not caring of your damed words!!!

Are you already dead?

[beethomozart]

well,nothing else to add when you hear dame sutherland voice,long live mozart

[franciscusliszt]

I LOVE her.

[operaboy81]

This woman is incredible. I don't know if she was the best Donna Anna, but her singing couldn't be more perfect hear. Mozart would have written operas for her.

[osvaldito55]

Mozart cannot be sung (or played) without a secure bel canto technique (a flawless legato, a solid command of every type of musical/vocal demands, evenness of voice, enormous agility and flexibility, etc.). Mozart's music IS bel canto, and no one exemplifies these principles more than Joan Sutherland. One may or may not like Sutherland, but Mozart would give her a standing ovation for this performance.

[midlochblidloch]

I don't think her mozart is as good as bel canto.

[lahire22]

some part from review of Allen Hughes in The New York Times : If her place was normal and natural for a Donna Anna, it could hardly - with that voice and technique - be an inconspicuous one. It was a model of vocal deportment from first to last, as conscientiously attentive to detail in the recitatives as in the two arias, and a rock of support in the ensembles throughout.

[lahire22]

and : Unlike some others who must labor to meet the requirements for "Or sai chi l'onore," she slipped easily into vocal gear it required; and her climaxing "Non mi dir" was a fulfillment of Mozartean purpose rarely, if ever, equaled since the Metropolitan resumed giving "Don Giovanni" regularly in the late twenties.

[lahire22]

& : What distinguishes Miss Sutherland from most of her predecessors in this role is the combination of flexibility with breadth in her vocal vocabulary. That is, she has much more flexibility than the average dramatic soprano who is drawn to the part; and much more dramatic accent than the average florid singer.

[lahire22]

& : It is out of such odd and unusual attributes that standards are born, and Miss Sutherland is Donna Joanna for this time. Of further advantage is the restricted range of movement and mobility the role embodies, meaning that she was asked to do nothing, dramatically, that was not well within her competence.

[midlochblidloch]

:)) it was just my opinion, I don;t like her mozart, bel canto is better;) don't eat me:))

[iriisblue]

Thanks for posting the review.

[despina92]

Please don't talk about things you don't know!!! Leave Dame Joan alone! She's a WONDERFUL singer, maybe the best coloratura soprano ever born. Her technique is objectively matchless.

[midlochblidloch]

i think gruberova's technique is also matchless.

[jamalakadea]

...People are allowed their own opinions, just as you are allowed yours. Just because you disagree with them does not mean they do not know what they are talking about...

[despina92]

Happy birthday, Joan!

[CharlotteinWeimar]

Sutherland had huge warm voice, uniform quality with thrilling,full,round easy top notes, the best top. Heard her pre-Lucia Desdemona, and stunning Let the bright Seraphim. Words indistinct sometimes because tonal quality came first for her. Stupenda!

[timsuffolk]

THE most beautiful voice..........EVER!

[hidalgo3112]

X.P (pro accompanist)Only the greatest singers can sing powerful rromantic roles like Donna Anna or Rezia in Oberon, i.e, Those who don't like this version should maybe practise music a little bit more..

[moghedien13]

they wouldnt recognize good singing if it bit them in the ass.

[ceccopisa]

Come si può parlare male di una simile cantante???? E' vero che la sua perfezione tecnica può dare noia a molte cantanti fallite..... imparate e ascoltate ignoranti!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Orbazzano]

Sono assolutamente d'accordo con te, sulla tecnica di Dame Joan non si discute, una delle più perfette di sempre... vero è anche, però, che questa non è una delle sue Anna migliori, le sue interpretazioni più riuscite, in questo ruolo, sono da ricercare, secondo me, in quelle di dieci anni prima,quella in studio con Giulini più di tutte,lì forse abbiamo la migliore Anna di sempre.

[osvaldito55]

Anch'io cantavo meglio dieci anni fa. :)

[paulswans]

She should have gone the direction of her earlest years and sang Wagner. Her voice always ALWAYS sounded as if it were in shreds. Even early she sounded like a hag in distress.

[Jabe88]

you're stupid and an ignorant

[blidloch]

very very good. nevertheless I think Gruberova is more stylish and her coloratura better. but this is also amazing.

[uniqueattack]

She's like flourless chocolate cake with whipped cream! I'm always amazed at her top because her middle or lower part of the voice is so dark and sometimes thick. I don't expect her to be able to reach the top with brilliance. She's a wonder and the terrible diction didn't stop her did it!?

[meltzerboy]

Sutherland sang Mozart in her early years at Covent Garden: Le Nozze di Figaro, for example. I too saw this performance in 1978 on television. Her singing of the role is great. I'll have to try her album of Mozart arias again; I remember not being too impressed when I first heard it years ago.

[lyside1]

supenda^^^^^^^^^^^

[BeauTenor]

*SIGH* God I love Mozart sung by bigger voices...it's incredible.

[remrom2]

one of the best! remus

[niklausse]

GREAT! it´s musicollogically healthy to listen this aria (so often mistreated by "nightigales") sung by a full bodied rich voice.

[clearandsunny]

Peerless. I saw this on TV in 1978, but did not appreciate the real challenges of this music at the time. How thrilling to see it now. If Flagstad could even sing "Non mi dir," she would be pressed to be this opulent and, frankly, majestic . HOW DO I GET IT?

[stome3139]

She is the greatest Donna Anna too

[pasfresh123]

Birgit Nilsson sang Donna Anna.

[accuratisimus]

Magic. Some critics say that her sound is faked and forced. Probably they are deaf.

[mariogorga]

I saw Dame Joan in Don Giovanni in 1979 she was just amazing,hard to find another Anna like hers!!!is this from the MET??.Has anyone got the full video??

[FrancoCallas]

bravahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhh

[yamilelarabe]

DAME JOAN SUTHERLAND you are awesome!!!THANK YOU!!!so much,STUPEMDA my love.YAMIL

[SueAnnNivens]

Isn´t Joan the best? Thanks for this amazing video