Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Don Giovanni - "Non mi dir" (Joan Sutherland) (1959)

[bmh4d0k3n]

Honestly, I'm not a fan of this recording. She seems a bit aloof, like she's singing it to herself, rather than to Don Ottavio. She makes a beautiful enough sound, but I could use a lot more core to her line.

[Leyla7b]

Mozart is a pitiful amateur, not good enough!

[yesIamKom]

Does anybody know the date of this recording? After or before the 17Feb1959 Lucia performance? Does anybody know any studio recordings of Joan Sutherland before 1959 Lucia performance?

[90lysander]

Fascinating excerpt from Platoff's article, though I can't believe Mozart and da Ponte would create something MERELY for convention's sake. In the end, I feel this aria *does* add something to the character - it shows that Anna has a sensitive side, gives Ottavio a little hope, and foreshadows their final interchange.

As for the singing, it's some of Sutherland's best work on record. If I had to choose three arias to remember her by, they would be this, "Bel raggio, and "Caro nome."

[neftalireyes8]

As always, the number of views for anything of high cultural value is inversely proportional to the number of views that given video has. I guess, just like the internet, the more accessible anything meritorious becomes the less accessible it paradoxically becomes.

[anusgoblin]

Neftali you pretentious twat. The internet is not lowering society's least common denominator or whatever bullshit you all spout. It's forcing people to accept multiple levels of culture in their everyday lives, which is progress in my book. Just because there's no cultured elite that sits around going to operas doesn't mean society is going to degrade. And I don't think your first two sentences made logical sense. Something can't be inversely proportional to itself.

[mxwhisper]

Wonderful, a young Joan Sutherland. Always a very special singer for me.

[imusiciki]

Lyrical. Thank you!