Joan Sutherland - Margreta Elkins - Linda di Chamounix duet

[FloriaTosca90]

Oh yes no doubt it sounds like Donizetti! Very lovely duet!

[tamerlano]

Has anyone noticed how the opening theme of the duet sounds an awful lot like "alfin son tua" from the Lucia madscene?

[KenyonCT]

Is Joan sitting on a stool? She was a TALL woman...

[Richiesutherland]

@fullbuck50 I have watched this clip before, but never noticed the hysterical face. So typical of Joan. I saw her on many occasions rehearsing something and singing like a combination of goddess and angel and then making a face like a naughty schoolgirl. One of her most endearing traits, but she got caught here!

[fullbuck50]

Wonderful. Has anyone noticed or mentioned the wacky face JS makes when she finishes her part at 2:20 - she sort of rolls her eyes, and screws up her forehead, as if commenting on what she just sang. Perhaps she thoughts the camera was already off her? It's very funny, especially after having just made such extraordinary music. Self-deprecating GENIUS.

[flowersings]

Beautiful! Perfectly matched!!

[coryisawake]

Elkins is fantastic here and it's interesting to see Sutherland at her absolute prime. Thanks for posting, D!

[DiomedesDioscuro]

¡Gracias! ¡Gracias! ¡Gracias!

[marioegorga]

Darling Margeta passed away today, you will sadly missed by lot of people and funs.

[LaStupenda]

Oh no! How is our Joan?

[preppybeast6293]

shes doing well! her birthday is saturday!!!! the big 8-3!!!

[Eiswirth]

What a rare and wonderful gem of a clip; may thanks to whomever posted it. Even though I still think Sutherland and Horne were the greatest female duet ever, Ms Elkins gives Horne a run for her money here. And nobody was better than Joan! Brava!

[g420730a]

Joan is perfect. I love Margreta Elkins a lot. She is a very fine singer. Her performance with Joan in Norma in 1979 in Sydney was impressive. And one interesting point, Joan is a tall girl and Elkins is almost as tall as Joan. They make a perfect duo on the stage.

[dollartwenty]

thaks you so much for this. I had the great honour of singing with both these awesome talents(in the chorus of course)Both had enormous and magical voices. Margreta chose to spend most of her career here in Australia sining both in opera and oratorio. How lucky we were.

[Richiesutherland]

A bit of heaven! I knew that Joan sang this duet in recitals with Tourangeau, but never knew this clip existed. The best singing I've heard from Elkins, so refined and subtle, and Joan sounds glorious, of course.Thank you so much for this beautiful clip. It shows that Elkins too had an innate feeling for the ebb and flow of the bel canto line. What a gem of singing from both of them!

[drdre333]

Such a rare clip! I have never seen this. Thanks coloraturafan for some early Joan footage!  They both look and sing beautifully too.

[Gobbi2007]

Thanks you for posting this. Both voices are so fresh, so lovely. I love the fact that Sutherland's technique is clear to see: the forming of the lips, the elongated neck, the way her torso makes her bounce up when she needs the breath support. Fantastic. Again, thank you.

[lahire22]

realy rare! thx!

[lahire22]

14-15 october 1962 - Television show with Sutherland and Elkins, LSO, cond.Boynge (Bristol)

[meltzerboy]

What a rare clip this is, at least for me! Thanks coloraturafan. Did Sutherland ever sing the opera in concert? I think the last performance at the Met was with Pons and Swarthout around 1934.

[Operaphile]

Wonderful!!! Thank you so much!!!

[ariodante76]

I hope someday there will be a posting of Margreta Elkins singing Il Segreto Per Esser Felici, from the Opera Australia production of Lucrezia Borgia. I saw it on VHS a few years back, and was mightily impressed by her florid cadenzas.

[Hako2004]

Thank you coloraturafan for this beautiful video. I know Margreta and Joan were friends in the begining of their musical lives.

[riccardo699]

In fact, in the musical community it was believed that they were lovers in early years. I've always found that hard to believe, but one never knows.

[LaStupenda]

Well, I have heard that Richard was gay, and when I see Joan with Margreta, or later with Marilyn Horne, it really ignites my gay-dar. I have for a long time wondered what Joan did for a sex lfe, and whether she had women.

[andreasscholl]

Elkins and Garanca...they are the same!!!!!!

La Stupenda, wonderfull.

They don't make these singers anymore.

Brava, and Hail La Stupenda.

[yglygl4545]

Awesome! Please coloraturafan, much more posting this production! Thanx.

[Jabe88]

aww coloraturafan!

this is amazing... Thank you so much!