The Doll Song - Joan Sutherland

[arbergsma]

Geez...they don't make singers like that anymore.

[RaWrZzZz]

o.O Oh lord Joan...I think she just broke the laws of physics.

[chocoholicchic92]

Don't like the tempo at the start

[Jeffbear1]

Bravo Joan !!

[Divina126]

Why are they laughing?(

[NosHabebitHumus]

@Divina126 They are laughing because, in this scene, she is playing Olympia, a wind-up doll, made by Spalanzani and with whom Hoffmann has fallen in love. When she stops abruptly or trills off, it's because she has "wound down". Then Spalanzani uses the key attached to her back to wind her up again. When it's well done, it really is funny. And it sounds like it was VERY well done by Dame Joan.

[RossiniSoprano]

Those triplet are EXTREMELY difficult to sing at a normal tempo, and she goes like a bat out of hell....AWESOME!

[skitzo429]

not her most beautiful Eb

[alithecrab]

@skitzo429 Definitely not, I agree, but as far as entrance arias go, this isn't exactly easy. One doesn't want to warm-up too much beforehand because even after Olympia is finished, there is still Giulietta and Antonia to sing. Sutherland may very well have been sick or, even more likely, tired, and in 1973 she was 20 years into her career and 47 years old. Given the circumstances, I'd be ecstatic with that Eb.

[diziona340]

ahahah Probably bonynge was loosing the train here......

[SatanAteMySocks]

It's nice to hear how much fun the audience had. :-)

[jsw663]

Whoever's playing the french horn needs to quieten down a lot.

And yea, she slowed down quite a bit from the beginning of the song towards the middle.

[RossiniSoprano]

@jsw663 The horn is obviously too close to a mike....sound engineer's fault, not the horn player's.

[VirnAlfakyn]

I only wish that i could see the preformance that she is putting on right here... I'm sure it was amazing.

[europeobsession]

hahah!!! best singer in the world

[Janibeva]

My favorite-favorite-favorite singer!! She's amazing....

[timsuffolk]

Untouchable

[Jabe88]

she's perfect!

[meltzerboy]

Sutherland loved to sing this aria as fast as possible; in her later performances she slowed up a little. There was a video on youtube not long ago. Perhaps too fast, but exciting! Much the same with Lily Pons' fast singing of the bells in "Air des clochettes."

[Roscieto]

Lol

'slowed up'

[uniqueattack]

totals amazing! she sounds like a bird!!! I wish there was a video! what a tempo! Talk about fireworks!

[henryv69]

la migliore in assoluto e forse tale resterà per sempre!

[opera60]

Simply the best!