Joan Sutherland "Exultate, Jubilate" Mozart 1965

Adealide, 1965

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Music

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• Opera
• Mozart
• Joan
• Sutherland

[dolcefico]

Astonishingly, breathtakingly beautiful throughout. Expected fireworks with the alleluja, but 4:57-5:24 is sublime! Listening to her is like a religious experience. Wonderfully in idiom, too.

[edgarbiervliet]

Has there ever been any other singer who has gone through such amazing stages of development? With Joan you can just hear when the recording was made, because her voice has changed so much over time. But then again in a way it has never changed. She is just fascinating. The bright shining radiant sound...but again deep and warm. Its like a contradiction in itself. Like a riddle....a mystery. Never heard any voice like hers.

[n5rnd]

If only we had a castrato to sing it...

[muzhelozhstvo]

ONE OF A KIND!!!! A JEWEL...since I was 15 started listening and at 17 saw her Norma at the MET!!!will never ever forget saw all she did after that even flew to places to see her do things She wasn't doing in NY

[CaptFitzbattleaxe]

@marchesano This is the 1959 recording. I've posted it on my channel, and it sounds just like this one. :)

[Zpevacek15]

1.part con diva Sutherland- dove é?:(

[truediabolique69]

W~O~W!

[flaze3]

I don't much like the 'cover', but despite that she still sings very beautifully.

[marchesano]

@ChrisStockslager Indeed. I might suggest that two factors came into play: The sinus surgery and re-working her technique, and that perhaps pre-1960 she had not fully perfected her technique for the trills, or esp. the rapid, climbing or descending trills. I agree about the dates, this is young Suntherland in the mid-60s "covered" period. Something that in itself deserves study. They never addressed it much, but clearly it was to preserve the voice and range.

[ChrisStockslager]

@marchesano Well, yes, her trill was always the best ever recorded, but pre-1960, she had a different approach to trilling than that she developed later.

[EADutton]

She was so pure in her tonality. And, I agaree with marchesano....she has always kept that impecable trill.

[marchesano]

@ChrisStockslager This is not 1959. You can hear the covering in her voice here as is typical in the mid-1960s. I will disagree, she always kept a miraculous trill. Better than any singer I've ever heard. The singing is silvery and glistens while still being warm. It is surely young Sutherland, but I belive the date is accurate, as she did multiple operas in Australia in 1965.