Joan Sutherland - Suor Angelica - Puccini

[CaptFitzbattleaxe]

Wonderful recording and sweet collection of pictures! Love the costume at 2:30

And those are some uber-snazzy glasses Bonynge has at 3:11. :)

[bellini7verdi]

ESTA GRABACION......ME HACIA SENTIR ....LAS PAREDES DE UN CONVENTO......LOS MUROS DE LA SOLEDAD LLENA DE RECUERDOS Y DOLOR......LA PAZ DEL MONACATO...LA CONEXION CON LA POSIBLE DEIDAD.....EL DESEO DE SENTIR LA PAZ.......EL GRITO DEL DOLOR POR ENCIMA DEL DESEO...........FANTASTICO....­.....

[alvenerio]

@bellini7verdi durante muchos años tambien fue mi grabación preferida. Tiene una intensidad que otras no. todavía , hoy , me emociona hasta las lágrimas escucharla

[flyboytim]

Another magnificent recording of the greatly missed Dame. Thank you

[iriisblue]

Wonderful slide show you've assembled to accompany this moving music. Loved seeing the pic of her and Bergonzi from the 1985 Lucia reunion at Covent Garden. Thank you.

[ElisabettaVS]

Sutherland is one of my favourites for this role! Absolutely wonderful and sung with a very clear voice.

The audio quality is also very good, I enjoy the video with all the pictures of Joan. Very nice. ^^

[isti45]

wonderfulll

[ChrisStockslager]

In what aria from this recording does Joan 'shriek' the E natural?

[JDOopera76]

Just a little "nit-pick" - it was recorded in 1978 (November, I think)

[543johnson]

I never knew Sutherland sang Angelica once onstage. She obviously has a rather obscure knack for the spinto repertoire, as evidenced by her recordings as Angelica, Leonora, Elvira, even the dramatic Turandot. Sutherland even studied the dramatic soprano roles as a student, in the hopes of becoming the next Flagstad; but when Bonynge discovered her high range he encouraged her to do more coloratura work. Who knows what could've been?

[andreasscholl]

Pitty she didnt sing this role on the stage!

Think she would have been right for it...

Such a GREAT singer and wonderfull person.

Hail La Stupenda!!!!!

[sutherlandfan64]

Thanks very much for your comment. In fact, she did sing this role on the stage, in 1976, and the critiques said she was even more dramatic and moving than in the recording that was to follow a few years later. She herself confirmed that the recording studio was less propicious an environment for her to inhabit the role and be as dramatic as she'd been in the opera house. Still, a great and unique rendition all the same, I think.

[baritonebynight]

@sutherlandfan64 I also remember her saying that she loved singing it because it was so different from what she had sung before (in an old VHS tape called La Stupenda).

[MadonnaImperia]

@andreasscholl She sang four performances of it at the Australian Opera in 1977.

[timsuffolk]

It's great to see the side show whilst listening to the most beautiful voice I have ever heard!