Joan Sutherland State Memorial Service - Sydney 2010

State Memorial Service
Dame Joan Sutherland OM AC DBE
1926-2010

Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House
Tuesday 9 November 2010

PROGRAM:

- Prelude from La traviata -- Giuseppe Verdi
Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra
Conducted by Brian Castles-Onion

- Welcome
Adrian Colette AM
Chief Executive, Opera Australia

- Australian National Anthem

- 'Bell Song' from Lakmé -- Léo Delibes
Joan Sutherland

- 'The Honourable Julia Gillard MP
Prime Minister of Australia

- 'Parigi, o cara' from La traviata -- Giuseppe Verdi
Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti

- Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir AC CVO
Governor of New South Wales

- Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti
Joan Sutherland

- Mr Moffatt Oxenbould AM

- 'Era desso il figlio mio' from Lucrezia Borgia -- Gaetano Donizetti
Joan Sutherland

- Mr Adam Bonynge

- 'Va, pensiero' from Nabucco -- Giuseppe Verdi
Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Opera Australia Chorus
Conducted by Brian Castles-Onion

- 'Home Sweet Home'
Joan Sutherland

- 'Casta diva' from Norma -- Vincenzo Bellini
Joan Sutherland

RIP

Category:

Music

Tags:

• joan
• sutherland
• memorial
• death
• 2010
• sydney
• opera
• verdi
• norma
• va
• pensiero
• julia
• gillard

[fairlytaleofnewyork]

Hi Leo,

Thank you very much for sharing an incredible event with us.

I hope you have had a great Christmas and wishing you a wonderful year 2011.

Best regards

Satoko

[leoperarm]

@fairlytaleofnewyork oh thanks! All the best to you too!

[magicmonkichi]

Thank you for sharing. Dame Joan will be greatly missed, not a day goes by that I don't listen to her.

[leoperarm]

@magicmonkichi You'e welcome, the same happens to me :-/

[sunshines875]

Adam did a beautiful job with the eulogy.....Rest in Peace La Stupenda, you will never be forgotten xxx deepest sympathies to Meastro Bonynge, Adam, Helen and Joan's grandchildren at this very difficult time.

[expatmartin]

Thank you for uploading this wonderful tribute to Dame Joan. As a matter of interest Kenneth Neate was her Edgardo in the famous 1959 Lucia premiere and this is a memory he treasured all his life.

[thomastmwc]

RIP

[MrMattsboy]

I sit here dripping with tears...lbut thrilled to see this. Joan's rich yet simple humanity is well caught, especially by Adam. When he praised her scone-making abilities, can you hear the hushed "ah" from the audience? It was similar at the beautiful tribute to Joan in New York in May. God bless you for posting this, and God bless our beloved Joan--who meant so much more to me than just the incomparable voice.

[MrAndredekock]

May God bless you Dame Joan, especially for the glorious beauty you brought to the world with your wonderfully beautiful voice. With your passing and Beverly Sills 3 years before you, the operatic world is far poorer for all your experience, wisdom and encouragement that you so generously passed on to aspiring singers following in your footsteps. A salute la Stupenda. Ciao.

[donmigueldecuenca]

That was wonderful and moving -- thank you very much! Simply jaw-dropping singing -- what a great, great artist.

[7inga7]

Thank you for this wonderful celebration. Rest in peace, dear Lady!

[esclarmonde1]

What a loss to opera and the world, this gentle and very funny wonderful opera singer. Her bel canto including Lucretia Borgia was sublime.

[esclarmonde1]

What a loss to opera and the world, this gentle and very funny wonderful opera singer.

[goknur1977]

Thank you for posting this. What a loss. I miss the precious times I had with her and Maestro. I hope and pray that Maestro is surrounded with love and support in this hard time. Her generosity to young singers was selfless.