Il Trovatore (Verdi) - Joan Sutherland 1955!

[marylambcarter]

is there more ???? d amor sull ... nothing else???

[CaptFitzbattleaxe]

4:28 - excellent use of her lower register; foreshadows her Lucrezia Borgia.

Wonderful music-making!

[wattever333]

I love this! more pleasant to listen to than >1962.

[SparafucileDiMantova]

Bellini7 verdi, coincido plenamente con cada uno de tus comentarios. No puedo escuchar a La Stupenda sin llorar... Siempre conmovedora!

[SparafucileDiMantova]

Madame Sutherland ha sido Stupenda desde simpre!. Yo aun no habia nacido y ya poseia ese timbre conmovedor Gracias a la vida por haberme permitido conocerla, escucharla, disfrutarla y emocionarme con ella!. Pena que no canten en italiano. Verdi no se debe transcribir. Musica y letra van juntas!, Una pena, pero un asi, conmovedor! Gracias

[bellini7verdi]

ELLA ERA LA UNICA CANTANTE DE OPERA DE VERDAD......DESDE LOS TIEMPOS DE MOZART....ASI QUE IROS A UN CURSILLO INTENSIVO ....SINO CULTURAL POR LO MENOS EMOCIONAL......Y SALIROS DE CORSE EN EL QUE ESTAN METIDOS TODOS......UN ABRAZO A LOS VERDADEROS AMANTES DEL PLACER DE ESCUCHAR LO DIVINO....LO ESTUPENDO......Y MAS CUANDO DURA 40 AÑOS.....

[genfox3]

@bellini7verdi sòlo la màs grandes despiertan esta pasiones. Ninguna de ellas era perfecta y por ello las crìticas. Pero que pensarìan, pensaràn, las divas de siempre, Callas, caballé, tebaldi, Sutherland de las llamadas divas de hoy en dìa, que no vale la pena ni escucharlas y casi nadie se ateve a criticarlas, dado que se mira màs su cuerpo que se escucha su voz..

[bellini7verdi]

ESTO ES UN DOCUMENTO HISTORICO ........PARA LOS ENTERADILLOS DE TRES AL CUARTO.........UN TROVADORE TEMPRANO.......Y MAS QUE TIENE QUE SALIR QUE NO TIENEN NI IDEA..............LA ESTUPENDA YA LO ERA ANTES DE ...1959.......QUE LO SEPAN.........LOS QUE HAN HABLADO QUE SI LA VOZ MADURA PERDIA BRILLO......DE QUE CUANDO TENIA BRILLO ERA EXGERADO........DE QUE CUANDO ERA DRAMATICA..NO SE LA ENTENDIA....DE QUE CUANDO SE LA ENTENDIA YA NO ERA JOVEN...Y SE LA ENTENDIA DE MUY JOVEN PERO DESPUES NO.....

[Cuteo05]

@bellini7verdi Es verdad, Sutherland siempre ha sido muy criticada injustamente en todooos los aspectos, y ahora quiés es la máxima "diva", Netrebko???? Qué deprimente!!

[fontenayperi]

is that English they're singing?? how come?

[asdfopera]

@fontenayperi

It's because almost everything was sung in English or German in London until the 1960s.

[fontenayperi]

@asdfopera that's interesting! do you know why operas are no longer sung in English?

[CaptFitzbattleaxe]

@fontenayperi Cause we opera fans are too stuck up to listen to performances not in the Original Language. :D

[thesafekind]

@CaptFitzbattleaxe Also opera became internationalized. If an opera house wants an international star it had better not ask him to learn it in a new language (though Covent Garden had Hans Hotter et al sing Wagner in English).

And then surtitles came along and rendered the whole thing sort of moot.

There's no doubt Verdi expected his operas to be performed in the language of the countries they were performed in -- eg he wrote Don Carlos in French but it was translated into Italian in Italy.

[dollartwenty]

Wow!

[SandrineSoprano]

Great outfit

[Homoclassicus]

@asdfopera Wow, that must be a great treat. May I ask you to upload that duet when you can, please? :-)

I've also been told there is a recording of an excerpt of Madama Butterfly or La Bohème with the early Sutherland, do you know anything about it? Surprisingly - and fortunately - It seems that there are still some rarities with Sutherland that most people haven't heard.

[Homoclassicus]

Please, do you have the duet from Roméo et Juliette that one of those albums of rarities includes? It'd be amazing to hear her Juliette! There is so many incredible rarities with Sutherland still almost unknown to most people. It's a shame they aren't released - and sonically improved - by an important recording industry...

[midas45]

What a treasure ! Thank you so much ... Where did you get it ??

[spiritenorp]

I think it's a matter of where you keep the focus of the voice. What a fabulous find.

[iriisblue]

WOW. An unearthed treasure. Thank you!

[christiaandhooghe]

Tell us what on the disk...please post more!!!

This is sooo enjoyable.

[kgarmaker123]

And this is a much smaller voice than it was later.. with the wobble and all.

[Macrob69]

What a pity - what is the disk called?

Thanks for sharing this gem :-)

[Macrob69]

This wonderful - do you have the entire opera??

[65attila]

Wonderful- even pre-Lucia the voice was

warm, large and even and the the size and ease of the High Db was amazing,

Thanks for posting.

[LohengrinT]

This is indeed fantastic... I always admired Sutherland's Leonora -although so bad mouthed by several drag Queens of the Operatic Past- but this is truly unbelievable. Despite the coloratura which she sings exquisitely, she actually manages to project through semi-chest voice the terrible phrase: M'avrai ma fredda esanime spoglia....(4:30)... I would dare say she is dark and expressive there. Who on earth ever transformed this phenomenal singer to the Bore of her later years

[crimsontoxic]

Richard Bonynge.

[kgarmaker123]

I think we both know who made her into the bore of her later years. I love her Trovatore too.

[Ahdren]

@kgarmaker123 I'm glad to hear you say that she was a bore later....so few people seem to recognise this. I personally felt she sang the wrong material all together. There is a slip of her singing Wagner on youtube.....and it is actually surprisingly good....much better than a lot of the garbled stuff she did around that time!

[Eiswirth1]

@kgarmaker123 I thank God every day Bonynge heard the potential in her instrument for the bel canto repertory.  What a waste of an instrument if she had spent her career singing Wagner.

[christiaandhooghe]

She always had a dark mid-voice, thanx to singing the mezzo-roles.

Brangane etc.

[iestynovich]

She's exquisite.

[christiaandhooghe]

In English!

Wooouw!!!!!

She was then already wonderfull.

Maybe a bit to young for this part at that time.

But see how she became a star!!!!!

x