[1960] 'IL BACIO'ㅡJoan Sutherland (Luigi Arditi)

[1960] 'IL BACIO' -Joan Sutherland
The composer is Luigi Arditi
Hi, everyone.
I'd like to trade Joan Sutherland's rare recording with anyone. I'm looking for Joan's Lucia, Sonnambula, Traviata, Norma, Puritani and so on. (Especially Lucia!
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Vancouver performance in 1967
All the Covent Garden production in 1973
and 1974, 1979..

These are what I'm looking for!

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Music

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• Dame
• Joan
• Sutherland
• La
• Stupenda
• IL
• BACIO

[Hako2004]

Callas also said this, watching a Sutherland rehearsal: "This isn't good". When asked if she didn't think Sutherland's singing was good, she replied " No... it's too good". Callas admired Sutherland as well, sent her notes and visited her backstage.

[federricoilgrande]

How silly is to compare two geniuses of the Opera like Callas and Joan....better to leave those people with their m...ations and thanks God that gave us the opportunity to admire both ::))

[Ariadne7710]

@OperaMystery80 Yes, I know I have heard Bognoa Sokorska singing this and several other pieces. She has an absolutely amazing crystalline voice and great coloratura technique. The reasons I prefer Hallstein slightly in this piece is that:-

1. Her additional embellishments are more in tune with the original melody and better composed and

2. Her tone on very high notes still maintains a melodious timbre.

Otherwise they are both fantastic.

[OperaMystery80]

@Ariadne7710 Please listen to Bognoa Sokorska singing this aria. It's the best, better than Ingeborg Hallstein. Sokorska has an amazingly beautiful voice, a bloom and clarity that fits the dreamy romantic happy nature of the song. I do agree that Hallstein is better than Sutherland singing this. This was just too boring. You can't even tell that she's in love. Beverly Sills did a marvelous job also..she sang this aria at age 8! It's on Youtube.

[Ariadne7710]

@OperaMystery80 You are absolutely right. But also it is not sang in a style that suits this particular song. The best interpretation by miles and the best extra embellishments are by Ingeborg Hallstein. She takes it in the right tempo and has that belllike crystalline clarity in her voice and diction which are key to this song. You can find it on YT. Sutherland's additional embelishments just don't blend at all well into it and spoil the melody.

[OperaMystery80]

Too slow for my taste. This is best when the pacing is bouncier and livelier/faster since it's a happy song, Sutherland has fine coloratura and technique but it would be much more dazzling when sung at a faster pace. Just saying.

[ervikervik777]

Супер техника! Брависсимо!

[yiudiumui]

her high notes are sick!

[coryisawake]

@ronfast Callas was not considered exceptional based purely on her acting. Sutherland and every notable contemporary musician realized this and revered her for the til-then forgotten accountability she felt to be a technician of the highest order as well as a fine actress. Apparently you know better?

[dziady1]

Miliza Korjus was the only one to sing this stuff- without shrieking the top

as here .