Joan Sutherland "Prendi per me sei libero...Nel dolce incanto..."

[tklogan111809]

this preposterous cabaletta which Donizetti never wrote doesn't belong at all in a recording of Elisir. It's a cheap Viennese waltz that destroys the touching confession of Adina's love for Nemorino we just witnessed, in fact it destroys the balance of entire score. Dame Joan does a phenomenal job, of course but I wished Bonynge has left it out.

[ChrisStockslager]

@tklogan111809 Has anyone recorded the cabaletta besides Joan?

[MadonnaImperia]

This was recorded in 1970.

[Cuteo05]

THIS IS PERFECTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gaetanopat]

NEL DOLCE INCANTO è fantastico, delizioso... E deliziosa e bellissima è la direzione musicale. Chi è il bravissimo direttore d'orchestra?

[MadonnaImperia]

@gaetanopat Richard Bonynge, il marito della Sutherland.

[Marcelomosca16]

Respond to this video... Respond to this video... thanks for this things you gave us im learning every moment from you, im crying after hearing this, althoug you don't know me (im from argentina a 20 years old tenor) i will allway keep you, mr Bonynge, and Mr Pavarotti in my heart, with all my heart thank you. I ll hope you read this somewhere.

[dmpetrick]

I got chills on the Prendi...she does a great job.  Never heard the second aria, but never was there such a loud voice, nor such magnificent resonating chambers in a human skull. Nor a more statuesque lady. Brava diva! She could have taught Ms. Callas how to do it.

[65attila]

aragall77

Thank you for the post of this magnificent singing. If possible could you please post the "Waltz Song" from Offenbach's "Robinson Crusoe". I have it on the magnificent 2 LP set "French Opera Arias"

Thank you and regards-John

[leprincebeaumont]

Favolosa!

[jocmuc]

not really an assoluta but greatest belcanto-primadonna ever

[dollartwenty]

Simply marvellous. Brava La Stupenda. Or as we might say here in Australia. Onya Joan, nice one!

[petelovesbevsills]

Will all the" ho deee hum wanna be soprano's " out there please take note that THIS is how one sings coloratura arias and nothing less is acceptable!Thank you and Brava Joanie, stupendous!!!!!!!

[TheVaughan5]

@petelovesbevsills Only problem there is that there never has been and probably never will be another soprano who can overcome the technical difficulties of this music with such ease as Joan Sutherland was able to, simply, a totally unique talent!

[petelovesbevsills]

@TheVaughan5 I agree and I am also amazed that the paying audiences today accept mediocrity as the current standard without questioning WHY none of the current teapot singers are incapable of "delivering the goods"

[alfemv76]

Excelesa, super "estupenda"; úinica!

[soothed]

Many thanks for posting. This is one of my very favourite Sutherland recordings - but I am not sure that it "well known", it should be. My other Sutherland favourites are Beatrice di Tenda, Semiramide,Fille du Regiment and Turandot. My favourite collections are Art of the Prima Donna and Romantic French Arias.

In passing Sutherland is recuperating well from her accident last year. She required surgery on both legs. God bless her.

[Hako2004]

That's good to hear, I had been wondering.

[aragall77]

Is she recovering at home or at the hospital?

[soothed]

I think she would be at home in Switzerland by now. She was originally hospitalised for 8 weeks. She turns 83 this year.

[aragall77]

Thank you very much for information. I hope she will keep well. I have always had on my mind to talk to her :-) Though doesn`t she know everything we would like to say her?

[moghedien13]

thats very good to hear. also i love her french arias too. especially the comic ones, you could always tell she had a certain fondness for them and was a bit more animated when she sang them.

[Hako2004]

Her voice was rich in the middle, bell-like at the top, and warm and earthy down low...with substance.  The sound was limpid, sonorous, radiant, but most unique in the joyous feeling that came out in lively tunes. Thank you aragall77.

[Richiesutherland]

So well-said, Hako! She almost sang Adina on her Australian tour. She studied it, but was singing Lucia, Amina, Semiramide, Violetta and Marguerite, sometimes three or four times a week! So she gave up the Adinas to Elizabeth Harwood. What we would give to have heard her live in this role. The cabaletta is not Donizetti's, of course. but is by Charles de Beriot, Maria Malibran's husband, who wrote this piece for her, although I doubt it was in this key!

[timsuffolk]

I don't think there is anyone before or since who could sing like this, I think she was unmatched for sheer vocal wizardry

[timsuffolk]

Indeed, when I first bought the record , and I heard this , my jaw dropped. i would have loved to have seen her sing this at Covent Garden, a shame she never did it on stage

[Jabe88]

Indeed, this is simply wonderful...

Sutherland is the one who drew me to Opera and Bel Canto, and I am thankful for that!

[64marc64]

This is amazing singing from Sutherland. This aria is quite a mouthful and once again, it doesn't seem to cost her a thing. She's unique. Thanks for posting.