Joan Sutherland - Suor Angelica - Puccini

La Stupenda in her legendary performance as Suor Angelica. 1979

"Joan Sutherland's portrayal is both powerful and distinctive"
Gramophone

La grazia è discesa dal cielo.
Suor Angelica ha sempre una ricetta buona fatta coi fiori.
Amici fiori, che nel piccol seno
racchiudete le stille del veleno.
Ah, quante cure v'ho prodigate.
Ora mi compensate.
Per voi, miei fior, io moriro.
Addio, buone sorelle, addio, addio!
Vi lascio per sempre.
M'ha chiamata mio figlio.
Dentro un raggio di stelle
m'è apparso il suo sorriso,
m'ha detto: Mamma, vieni in Paradiso!
Addio! Addio!
Addio, chiesetta! In te quant'ho pregato.
Buona accoglievi preghiere e pianti.
E discesa la grazia benedetta!
Muoio per lui e in cielo lo rivedro.
Ah!

Ah! Son dannata!
Mi son data la morte, mi son data la morte!
Io muoio, muoio in peccato mortale!
O Madonna, Madonna, salvami, salvami.
Per amor di mio figlio!

Ho smarrita la ragione!
Non mi fare morire in dannazione!
Dammi un segno di grazia! Dammi un segno di grazia!
Madonna! Madonna! Salvami! Salvami!

O Madonna salvami!
Una madre ti prega, una madre t'implora!
O Madonna, salvami!
Ah!
Ah!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Joan
• Sutherland
• Suor
• Angelica
• Puccini
• Christa
• Ludwig
• Bonynge
• Italian
• Opera

[andreasscholl]

Pitty she didnt sing this role on the stage!

Think she would have been right for it...

Such a GREAT singer and wonderfull person.

Hail La Stupenda!!!!!

[sutherlandfan64]

Thanks very much for your comment. In fact, she did sing this role on the stage, in 1976, and the critiques said she was even more dramatic and moving than in the recording that was to follow a few years later. She herself confirmed that the recording studio was less propicious an environment for her to inhabit the role and be as dramatic as she'd been in the opera house. Still, a great and unique rendition all the same, I think.

[ElisabettaVS]

Sutherland is one of my favourites for this role! Absolutely wonderful and sung with a very clear voice.

The audio quality is also very good, I enjoy the video with all the pictures of Joan. Very nice. ^^

[alvenerio]

@bellini7verdi durante muchos años tambien fue mi grabación preferida. Tiene una intensidad que otras no. todavía , hoy , me emociona hasta las lágrimas escucharla

[MadonnaImperia]

@andreasscholl She sang four performances of it at the Australian Opera in 1977.

[CaptFitzbattleaxe]

Wonderful recording and sweet collection of pictures! Love the costume at 2:30

And those are some uber-snazzy glasses Bonynge has at 3:11. :)

[bellini7verdi]

ESTA GRABACION......ME HACIA SENTIR ....LAS PAREDES DE UN CONVENTO......LOS MUROS DE LA SOLEDAD LLENA DE RECUERDOS Y DOLOR......LA PAZ DEL MONACATO...LA CONEXION CON LA POSIBLE DEIDAD.....EL DESEO DE SENTIR LA PAZ.......EL GRITO DEL DOLOR POR ENCIMA DEL DESEO...........FANTASTICO....­.....

[flyboytim]

Another magnificent recording of the greatly missed Dame.  Thank you

[baritonebynight]

@sutherlandfan64 I also remember her saying that she loved singing it because it was so different from what she had sung before (in an old VHS tape called La Stupenda).

[iriisblue]

Wonderful slide show you've assembled to accompany this moving music. Loved seeing the pic of her and Bergonzi from the 1985 Lucia reunion at Covent Garden. Thank you.

[isti45]

wonderfulll

[ChrisStockslager]

In what aria from this recording does Joan 'shriek' the E natural?