Joan Sutherland Richard Conrad Donizetti duet (vaimusic.com)

http://vaimusic.com/VIDEO/DVD_4254_ArtofSutherland.htm
Joan Sutherland & Richard Conrad sing "Tornami a dir che m'ami" from "Don Pasquale" (Donizetti)
From: VAI DVD 4254 The Art of Joan Sutherland

The first half of this remarkable DVD is a 1963 television special from Canadian television which presents Miss Sutherland in fully-staged arias and scenes from La Sonnambula, I Puritani, and La Traviata. The second half finds Miss Sutherland in a rare 1969 solo recital, with Richard Bonynge, piano. The program includes arias and songs by Bellini, Handel, Rossini, Gounod, Bizet, Massenet, and others, and was taped live at the University of Toronto.
Optional English subtitles.
Approx. 110 minutes, Black & White / Color.
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[coryisawake]

@TitoSchipa65 Richard Conrad is probably the closest anyone in the 20th Century heard to the sort of tenorial sound favored by these composers! Though I appreciate her, Joan's tone and delivery were often uncharacteristic of singers who exemplified this period (they had clear diction, avoided aspirated consonants & overly covered vowels). Conrad is not the voice we associate with these roles today, but this is virtuosic singing with exceptional musicality, control and respect for tradition.

[TitoSchipa65]

i don't understand why Bonynge decided in many edition with Joan to cast bad singers for importants roles such as Idreno or Ernesto...

[1510Ronald]

This duett bring me everytime a could shoulder.............

[OperaDanceHall]

Thanks ...La Stupenda...for all your musiek (1926-2010)

[mrrk]

God another of Richard Bonynge's odd choices,like Huguette Tourangeau. He must have liked the sound of a fast vibrato.

[CaptFitzbattleaxe]

@Hako2004 I'm not sure if it's even usually true. I'm a 6' 4" tenor and from my experience gentlemen's voice/height ratio varies greatly. Maybe baritone's seem to be in the middle because most men are baritones.

By the way, Richard Conrad started out his career as a Baritone and returned to singing Baritone some years after his association with Joan Sutherland. I never would have guessed!

[melbapatti]

He sang the Emperor Altoum in Turandot in Boston last year.

[callenishss]

how tall was he

[Alexias6]

Conrad is an astonishing singer. It's a peculiar vibrato, but his range is formidable. It's worth seeking out his highlights recording of JULIUS CAESAR with Sutherland. In one of his arias, he sings over a span of two and a half octaves. Clearly he couldn't have appeared with Sutherland in a staged opera, due to his height. Here, with clever camera angles, and also standing behind her much of the time, it works. A fine, fine musician and technician, and his singing gives much pleasure.

[thomastmwc]

lol!!!!