Joan Sutherland - The Art of the Prima Donna

Joan Sutherland - Joan Sutherland - The Art of the Prima Donna

Joan Sutherland - The Art of the Prima Donna
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Artist: Joan Sutherland
Brand: SUTHERLAND,JOAN
Composer: Gaetano Donizetti
Composer: Vincenzo Bellini
Composer: Léo Delibes
Composer: Ambroise Thomas
Composer: Giacomo Meyerbeer
Composer: George Frideric Handel
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-10-10
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Artaxerxes: The Soldier Tir'd
  2. Samson: Let The Bright Seraphim
  3. Norma: Sediziose voci ... Casta diva ... Ah! bello a me ritorna
  4. I Puritani: Son vergin vezzosa (Polonaise)
  5. Semiramide: Bel raggio lusinghier
  6. I Puritani: O rendetemi la speme ... Qui la voce ... Vien, diletto
  7. La Sonnambula: Care compagne ... Come per me sereno ... Sovra il sen
  8. Faust: O Dieu! que de bijoux ... Ah! je ris de me voir
Music CD 2
  1. Romeo et Juliette: Ah! Je veux vivre
  2. Otello: Mia madre aveva una povera ancella ... Piangea cantando
  3. Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail: Martern aller Arten
  4. La Traviata: E' strano ... Ah, fors'e lui ... Sempre libera
  5. Hamlet: A vos jeux, mes amis
  6. Lakme: Ah! Ou va la jeune Indue
  7. Les Huguenots: O beau pays de la Touraine!
  8. Rigoletto: Gualtier Malde ... Caro nome

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Free Music Review: Bel Canto from an angelic voice
Hit: 5 Stars

There are only a few soprano-recitals that are absolutely essential and must be in every opera collector's collection. The art of the primadonna, does it qualify? Oh yes indeed and here's why. Joan Sutherland had one of the most brilliant and beautiful voices in recorded history, combine that with an excellent technique, high notes that sparkle like stars and coloratura of angelic quality and you get what Joan Sutherland was in 1961. To describe only a few favourites:

2. Samson, oratorio, HWV 57 Let the bright Seraphim
Composed by George Frideric Handel
with Joan Sutherland

A sparkling and intense interpretation of this well known yet hardly ever magnificently performed piece. Lucid, beautiful and technically impeccable.

3. Norma, opera Sediziose voci... Casta diva... Ah! bello
Composed by Vincenzo Bellini
with Joan Sutherland

Surely her best studio-recording of this killer-aria. She is one of the few Normas who masters the recitativo without cracking or sounding strained, yet full of authority and intelligent drama. The Casta Diva itself is fluent, the make-or-break coloratura wonderfully executed. As for the cabaletta, not since young Callas in 1949 have I heard this piece sung so beautifully! Amazing high notes crown a cabaletta that broke more than one famous Norma before.

6. I Puritani, opera O rendetemi la speme... Qui la voce... Vien, diletto
Composed by Vincenzo Bellini

A Bellinian madscene at its finest. Once again only Callas in 1949 can be compared to this wonder of a recording. Callas too found darker colours and more intensity. (Dolore e passione as described in the score) Sutherland may lack these but she sings it with her own sense for drama which is uniquely sublime.

10. Otello, opera Mia madre aveva una povera ancella... Piangea cantando
Composed by Giuseppe Verdi
with Joan Sutherland

An interesting and excellent choice. There are pictures of Joan Sutherland as Desdemona and what a pity that no complete recording of her performances survived. I find her Desdemona to be far more convincing than Tebaldi because she sounds more fragile and elegant, plus she has that silvery tone of innocence that I don't hear in Tebaldi's golden, sensual voice. Excellent in the floating lines, beautiful and tender in the cantabile.

16. Rigoletto, opera Gualtier Maldè... Caro nome
Composed by Giuseppe Verdi
with Joan Sutherland

This can be compared to Maria Callas' live-performance of this piece and, being in excellent sound, might be preferred. (Callas was excellent in the studio as well, yet in 1955 she was less daring and defying) Stunningly intense in the cantabile and brilliant in the coloratura-passages. Far better than her famous performance with Pavarotti where she had lost the youthful, silvery sound that made her earlier Gilda so loveable.

I do not adore her as much in French opera and La Traviata or anything German but that doesn't mean that her singing was anything but amazing, just a personal preference. In short: Buy it and discover why Joan Sutherland is indeed La Stupenda!
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Release Date: 10-OCT-2000

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