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Joan Sutherland's High 'E'

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Uploaded by on Aug 17, 2008

Amazing High-E natural!

1. 1960 Lakme
2. 1966 Beatrice di Tenda
3. 1962 La cambiale di matrimonio
4. 1960 Hamlet
5. 1959 I Vespri Siciliani
6. 1971 Lucia di Lammermoor
7. 1962 Semiramide (La Scala)
8. 1960 Semiramide

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  • Brilliant! Thank you AmorediPazzia. I believe she may have hit a high E in her recording of Suor Angelica....in 1978.

    It wasn't sustained.....more a shriek of horror. I have never checked the pitch, but it sounded like an E when I heard it.

    Great stuff.

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  • Many Thanks - the '59 Vespri and the '60 Semiramide have always been two of my favourite Stupenda Sounds [others on this site have already praised the '59 Vespri]. My third favourite Stupenda Sound is the held E/D(?) in the Pollione/Norma duet in the last act of "Norma" - the 1st commercial recording with John Alexander as Pollione.

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  • bah ... Lady Gaga or Rihanna can do that any ole time they feel like it ... (just kidding - this lady was an extraordinary talent indeed, and a total class act at all times, to boot. She's sadly, fondly missed).

  • high E - это ми третьей октавы? Кто тут понимает? :)

  • really good Es:P I mean they are very pure

  • Some of them sound like F's

  • @skitzo429 The Semiramide top E from La Scala is live,and if you find her Madame Herz from Glyndebourne she sang E and an F in the trio if quite briefly as part of a line. But this Semiramide top E is very brilliant.

  • I think these are all studio recordings, I dont know of any sutherland live recording with a high E, as far as I know Semiramide and Lakme were both transposed down a semitone when she performed the big arias live, even as early as the early 60s.

  • esto no tiene comparacion de ningun tipo.........

  • @soothed - The penultimate note in the Pollione/Norma duet ("In Mia Man Alfin Tu Sei") as sung by Joan Sutherland was a sustained high Eflat. Sung forte. It is indeed Stupenda!!!

  • Hey, it makes no fun.... We don't expect a high E, but a wonderful aria with a successful E to end up. Otherwise E means nothing.

  • Most of these sound like high Fs, not Es

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