SUTHERLAND & HORNE - Norma duet

[Crobertn]

Unforgetable! God bless the memory of Dame Joan.

[MrAndredekock]

Wonderful entertainment by great and consummate singers and performers par excellence! Bravi!

[emma41093]

Many thanks for this. Luciano, Marilyn and Joan were in my opinion the best cast for Norma by far!!!!

[buggerationable]

what's wrong with Horne's falsh lashes? or do I need bigger glasses?

[sebj66]

R.I.P La Stupenda!!!

[magicmonkichi]

You know it's good when you shut up and watch start to finish with your jaw dropped, and then start to finish again...jaw still dropped.

[drbarbarabaker]

Gee this is nice.

[bobbieboy54]

Marilyn Horne - a most magnificent mezzo, a truly glorious voice. And Joan Sutherland, a Norma beyond compare. As an opera goer of that long ago 1960's I suffered through another soprano with the initials of MC until I found Joan Sutherland. No comparison, except for the next decades superb soprano Montserrat Caballe.

But, enjoy the legacy of recordings of Horne and Sutherland; they are a treasure.

[maxhansendk]

Horne is really good!!

Sutherland is crap! Listen to Kristen Flagstad and compare!

If you compare "horseface Sutherland" with Flagstad...

Sutherlands sounds like a bad amateur!!

[pckermit]

Now, that's just silly. Why would you even want to compare Flagstad and Sutherland? Different generations, different repertoire. Why don't you give us an aria or a scene that they both sang so that we can compare them on common ground?

[maxhansendk]

OH!! Horseface Sutherland is back!

Yiakees!!

[baritonebynight]

Not just mezzo sopranos...but the greatest singers ever.

[ac3761G]

Joan Sutherland and Marilyn Horne perform the duet "Oh! Rimembranza" from Norma. Dame Joan introduces this 1987 rebroadcast of "the Concert of the Century" New York City Opera Orchestra Conducted ...

[0o0doir0o0]

she is the greatest!

[USABOYMAN]

Two giants of the vocal art

[aminul1984]

We need to bring back this lost art, Bel Canto is real singing with proper clear voices and natural tones.

[baritonebynight]

Thankfully...Ms Horne is teaching full time and making sure that Bel Canto doesn't die out...though I don't think there will ever be another singer like her for a long time.

[Cramnella]

ROTFLMAO!!!!

[fabouw]

This is what we call BELCANTO!

Perfect.

[michelangelobo]

Se Richard Bonynge nel frattempo dirigesse la Norma e non una Messa da Requiem sarebbe un capolavoro!

[LaMostraESopra]

I love hearing Joanie talk. So cute!

[patssister1960]

LOVE the way they're singing TOGETHER instead of trying to out-do each other!! Makes the whole thing SO much more beautiful...two excellent performers, two consumate professionals - love this piece!

[VirnAlfakyn]

Their voices compliment each others so well.

[Hako2004]

Horne's voice is so rich and yet petal-soft when needed. Such a large and agile mezzo, with such a beautiful tone and natural placement, she could have made her fortune never singing high C's.

[BeauTenor]

True. But, she did have one when she needed it. Her low range was every bit as good though...and in some ways even cooler to hear.

[meltzerboy]

I really don't care whether Horne could or could not take the high C in the passage referred to since her singing is magnificent regardless. The same applies to Sutherland. Insofar as Bellini's music is concerned, they are both peerless.

[timsuffolk]

Does anyone know if this concert is available on DVD, and, if so, where one can buy it?

[xagentzero]

amazing. i love these ladies singing together!! :D

<3

[Hako2004]

The "weak" high C was not taken forte, or even mezzo forte. If you saw the entire concert her high C was anything but weak. Also, Sutherland was quoting someone else.....she never referred to it as the concert of the century herself. I

thought it was certainly one of the concerts on the century, a display of vocal mastery that is anything but common-place.

[drdre333]

A) They aren't pajamas, they are obviously dresses, and they don't look that bad, just simple.

B) Horne rarely rarely sang high C's - more in the beginning of her career

C) Yes, they aren't in their prime... It's 1980! It's still great singing that we rarely hear!

D) Joan was never "fat." She is a tall woman, around 6 feet, and if she didn't have a few pounds on her, would look like a skeleton!

[Lohengrin]

indeed!!! very rarely Horne sang the high C that so exquisitely G Simionato sang back in mid-fifties. But also Joan;s high C a few moments earlier is unsteady and weak... not their best day!!! abd definetely NOT the concert of the century as Joan calls it in the begining of the clip. Both of them have sung SOOOO much better in other occasions.

[twizzle99]

why doesnt horne sing the high c at about 7:00? Cant she sing it? most adalgisas do it..

[owenboi66]

What I find amazing about this is the way they sing together. They even manage to co-ordinate their trills perfectly. You have to admire technique like this. And the dresses aint that bad folks!

[remrom2]

i listened to norma recording,joan,marilyn and pavarotti--lovely voice--bravo to 3 of them! remus

[Fanome]

She looks so much more feminine when she's speaking..

[clearandsunny]

This particular event had three legendary operatic stars in spectacular form (although Pavarotti is a bit raw for the Puccini). But If it's image you want, visit the Met these days. You'll see plenty of it, and not one great singer. How bad is it? Just wait for next year's LUCIA and NORMA.

[christinegroeneveld]

Two amazing personalities and wonderfull singers. A real inspiration!

[Mamasan41]

I don't care if she has got her pajamas on, she sings like an angel!!!

[OperaGhost1990]

I guess you are right, operaBR.

jaqueline Kennedy and Lady Di couldn´t sing like that.

Each person has its talents and music talent is the most exquisite one.

[OperaGhost1990]

jajajaja

[OperaGhost1990]

Joan Sutherland is a great singer, but she needs an image manager.

I know lots of people will be ofended with my comment, but is what I think.

[OperaBR]

Well, she doesn't need anymore, since she's retired since 1990! ;-D

Anyway, her looks were sometimes really weird, but, come on, wasn't most of the fashion in the 70's and 80's awful and weird? At least she was elegant and very polite, what is much rarer than a good image, and that also didn't matter when she had such great things to show (who cares about dresses or looks after listening to her?!)!

[ariodante76]

Well, it's puzzling that her rather flamboyant husband couldn't give her fashion tips, wink wink...

[urgrad03]

I don't find Bonynge all that "flamboyant"... not nearly as much as some other "straight" males in opera. But then too, if you are gay in opera, then you'd be gay in opera.

[andreasscholl]

Sutherland and Horne, are still the best Belcanto singers.

Indeed a pitty that singers have a longer carreer!

But....fot us students, a great study.

Thanx Dame Joan!

X

[zoozooyou]

I was not there but I agree this was the concert of the century. If this is not singing, nothing else is. Love Marilyn Horne, love Joan Sutherland. It is a pity that opera singers don't live more than 200 years and have at least a 150-year career. I guess no one else will sing like these two precious ones.