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Beautiful as ever...thank you for placing this video on i am a great fan of Sutherland.Her voice was so pure and so beautiful.Verdi at his best with La Traviata.Perfect combo!
Oh, splendid. Underplayed, subtle, but vocally scrumptous. As for the endless nits about Sutherland's acting, she was a competent on stage as 95% of all opera singers. In certain roles, such as this one, and in light comedy, she was better than most. But for this bel canto master, the performance, and the grand interpretation, are in the voice. Sherrill Milnes observed that astutely in the recent documentary on Dame Joan.
Excellent comment. I wonder how people complain about her acting when it looks so sincere and subtle as in this video? It seems we are coming to an age where people think acting means sighing, moving arms all the time, shaking all around the stage, etc. Sometimes, especially in scenes like this one, just singing with sublety and few movements makes the best effect. Callas barely moved in this act of Traviata, and people got moved much more than by wavering singers crying all the time.
Agreed. The "modern" emphasis on acting is excuse-making for the decline in vocal standards. But evidently many opera goers know as little about voice as they do about acting. So it goes. Like Scotto, if you put Callas' most compelling operatic performances on the legit stage, they would have been justifiably ridiculed as overwrought melodrama. Today, we have Dessay's on-stage self-conscious preoccupation with affect as a model for the fine "singing actress." But forget a decent trill.
Yes. I find it a little amusing that today's best trills come from lyric soprano Renée Fleming and not from the coloratura ones like Dessay and Damrau, whose trills are at most adequate, but often only an approximation of a trill (though I admire them both as singers, I can't overlook their flaws). :-)
Interesting. I share your appreciation for Damrau, although her Fille was not especially memorable. To me, Dessay is a media darling; the most overrated singer of her generation. And Netrebko as Lucia? Whatever (obviously). My rule: No trill, no Lucia. A few other non-trilling coloraturas - Anderson, Gruberova, Devia.
LOL. more likely, RS, we're just two of many who aren't easily impressed by press. although, now that i think of it, nurse ratched did move from pediatrics to psych.
Amazing...where did you find this?Such a rarity,to see Joan as a younger Violette!WOW...And people say she doesn't act well!The vocal coloring is almost enough...she's wonderful here!
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bellini7verdi 1 year ago
Beautiful as ever...thank you for placing this video on i am a great fan of Sutherland.Her voice was so pure and so beautiful.Verdi at his best with La Traviata.Perfect combo!
Shellsings 2 years ago
Oh, splendid. Underplayed, subtle, but vocally scrumptous. As for the endless nits about Sutherland's acting, she was a competent on stage as 95% of all opera singers. In certain roles, such as this one, and in light comedy, she was better than most. But for this bel canto master, the performance, and the grand interpretation, are in the voice. Sherrill Milnes observed that astutely in the recent documentary on Dame Joan.
iriisblue 4 years ago 5
Excellent comment. I wonder how people complain about her acting when it looks so sincere and subtle as in this video? It seems we are coming to an age where people think acting means sighing, moving arms all the time, shaking all around the stage, etc. Sometimes, especially in scenes like this one, just singing with sublety and few movements makes the best effect. Callas barely moved in this act of Traviata, and people got moved much more than by wavering singers crying all the time.
Homoclassicus 2 years ago
Agreed. The "modern" emphasis on acting is excuse-making for the decline in vocal standards. But evidently many opera goers know as little about voice as they do about acting. So it goes. Like Scotto, if you put Callas' most compelling operatic performances on the legit stage, they would have been justifiably ridiculed as overwrought melodrama. Today, we have Dessay's on-stage self-conscious preoccupation with affect as a model for the fine "singing actress." But forget a decent trill.
iriisblue 2 years ago
Yes. I find it a little amusing that today's best trills come from lyric soprano Renée Fleming and not from the coloratura ones like Dessay and Damrau, whose trills are at most adequate, but often only an approximation of a trill (though I admire them both as singers, I can't overlook their flaws). :-)
Homoclassicus 2 years ago
Interesting. I share your appreciation for Damrau, although her Fille was not especially memorable. To me, Dessay is a media darling; the most overrated singer of her generation. And Netrebko as Lucia? Whatever (obviously). My rule: No trill, no Lucia. A few other non-trilling coloraturas - Anderson, Gruberova, Devia.
iriisblue 2 years ago
Wow! I so completely agree with you, especially about Dessay. We we separated at birth?
Richiesutherland 2 years ago
LOL. more likely, RS, we're just two of many who aren't easily impressed by press. although, now that i think of it, nurse ratched did move from pediatrics to psych.
iriisblue 2 years ago
Wonderful video, and yes we do miss loganfacincy26! :-(
coloraturafan 4 years ago
Amazing...where did you find this?Such a rarity,to see Joan as a younger Violette!WOW...And people say she doesn't act well!The vocal coloring is almost enough...she's wonderful here!
lastupendaboy 4 years ago
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmh in DVD?!!!!
Fredzeblak 4 years ago
bravo, John Alexander!
coryisawake 4 years ago
OMG...not only was she /vocally/ incredible...her interpretation was flawless...extraordinarily convincing. Brava!
hisimperialmajesty 4 years ago
who is that tenor i think that,s John Alexander
Sutherland is superb
girardje 4 years ago
I think you are correct...
drdre333 4 years ago
This is my favourite opera ending.
OperaGhost1990 4 years ago
wonderfull as always. She made me cry. thank you for sharing with us all these video.
PAPEROGHINO 4 years ago
Sue Ann? You're the gift that keeps on giving! Thanks again.
Cramnella 4 years ago
superb
beautiful clear crystal sound
mdancer01 4 years ago