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Joan Sutherland - The Reluctant Prima Donna (3/3)

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2006 BBC Documentary on the career of Dame Joan Sutherland - focusing on Lucia and Alcina.

Documentary about Dame Joan Sutherland, one of the greatest operatic performers of the late twentieth century, who died in October 2010. Shy and lacking in confidence, she had sung unnoticed at Covent Garden for seven years after arriving from Australia, but over the course of twelve months was transformed into La Stupenda.

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  • Could someone point out where her Italian encore of "Let the Bright Seraphim" is? I can't find it on any of her commerical releases. Is it from a recording from an actual performance?

  • @ecceben I should think so. There are plenty recordings of her singing the Samson aria in English but she never commercially recorded it encore style (with the sneaky new lyrics in Italian). I would think there is probably a recording of her doing the Fenice version somewhere - I just don't know where. Sorry I couldn't be more use :)

  • @ecceben and as if by magic CaptFitzBattleaxe has uploaded it!

  • Thank You SO much for posting the 3 parts of this documentary.

    As we (in our area) are not Digital yet we cannot get BBC4,and so I had missed this.

  • @MrSwifts31 You're welcome. I just had the good fortune of having sky and being up at the right time (1.30am...) scrolling through the channels. I just hoping that another documentary is made in the next couple of years which focuses on the not so nice consequences of having a career like she had.

  • what Sherill Milnes says at the end is the sweetest thing that can be said about Joan Sutherland.

  • @matthieusarah Agreed, it is about the greatest compliment one can receive in my opinion.

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  • She still gives me goosebumps!  Her, Callas, Price and Norman!....Viva to the Divas!

  • She still gives me goosebumps! Her and Callas....DIVA!

  • The recording of Horne and Sutherland at the beginning gives me non-stop chills. So beautiful.

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