Sutherland singing La Traviata

I still don´t understand how is it, that there´s no recorded performance with Joan singing La Traviata... Just listen at this!

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[domi2020]

Is this taken from a complete performance.? I believe Kiri te Kanawa was in Sydney doing this production with John Copley in 1978. I know of a highlight disc of the Tokyo performance.

[SueAnnNivens]

This pic is from the documental A life on the move, I´ve seen some images with Kiri, but it would be great to watch the complete opera! I have a highlight performance from the Tokyo tour with the Met, but the complete performance has never been released.

[domi2020]

can anyone inform where this performance is from???

[SueAnnNivens]

I believe it´s from Sydney, 1978.

[Drelnis]

I don't think there's any coloratura soprano with this rich vibrato and fiery coloratura anymore. Sumi Jo and Dessay are fantastic sopranos but their voice is just not like Sutherland, though I am not implying in anyway that they their voices are inferior. Don't even compare them to Netrebko though, she's singing Manon Violetta and Lucia and her running coloratura passages are just mushy. I can't see how people belittles Dessay by her nasal voice, and I can't see how Netrebko is a good Violetta.

[DazFromOz]

it's sad the video doesn't show the detail of this production, it was so sumptous and just breathtaking... when the curtain went up on Act 1 it always got a big round of applause. And with those two in it as well.... need I say more?

[Adinacapricciosa]

Il tenore é allucinante...la violetta piú dolce della storia!

[Tex01S]

The tenor is Anson Austin.

[Tex01S]

The production is the Australian Opera, Director John Copley with sets by Michael Stennett. The production originally staged for Kiri te Kanawa. Sutherland did a series of performances in Melbourne, but only one performance in Sydney when it was quickly put on because of illness in the cast of another scheduled opera.

[CaptFitzbattleaxe]

@MastersoftheOpera It's from the 1978 documentary "Life of the Move." I'm guessing this scene was taped in Sydney specifically for the documentary. Also, I'm pretty sure the tenor is Anson Austin.

[profgv]

I've never heard or seen a Sutherland Traviata that did not fall into boredom after the first act.

[JeeRant]

She is wearing a tent.

[Drelnis]

@raigekimaru The successions of staccacti high Cs during the last passage of Sempre Libera is Sutherland's signature, not a single living soprano has done that!! :D

[raigekimaru]

@Drelnis

I agree, Dessay herself would admit it. the only singer around whom might be a REAL dramatic coloratura soprano would be Mariella Devia, but I also agree that it isn't fair of people to hold every coloratura soprano to the standard of La Stupenda, whose voice became popular precisely because it was inhumanly beautiful. any singer without a freak of nature voice AND perfect technique has no chance of comparing to her.

[sillyboydeux]

@CatalinaDM56 Milanov was a woman. Sometimes.

[sillyboydeux]

I adore her in this role, and I always have. She put everything she had as an artist into her Violettas. That's because her vague diction (only occasional) is well overshadowed by her complete devotion to every note and gesture, and that stunning, jewel-studded voice of her.