The Art of Joan Sutherland
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Composer: Thomas ArneComposer: Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber
Composer: Vincenzo Bellini
Composer: Georges Bizet
Composer: Giovanni Bononcini
Composer: Gustave Charpentier
Composer: Leo Delibes
Composer: Gaetano Donizetti
Composer: Gabriel Faure
Composer: Charles Gounod
Composer: George Frederick Handel
Composer: Charles (Alexander) Lecocq
Composer: Victor Masse
Composer: Jules Massenet
Composer: Giacomo Meyerbeer
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composer: Jacques Offenbach
Composer: Giovanni Paisiello
Composer: Niccolo Piccinni
Composer: William Shield
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Collector's Edition
CD Release Date: 2005-03-15
Music Label: Decca
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Free Music Review: Invaluable Sutherland Collection
Hit: 5 Stars
This is my favorite Sutherland collection. It has so much from so many periods. The bits from The French Opera Gala are beyond belief. It is some of the best coloratura she ever did and was recorded at a great part of her career. Both the Wagner and the Mozart discs were recorded when she was close to 60, which doesn't mean that much with Sutherland. Still it would have been great to have heard the Wagner recorded a decade earlier when she recorded the Turandot. She would have been better at Wagner than anyone around today. Not Nilsson or Flagstad's equal, but better by far than Voigt, who isn't bad. On the Mozart bits, a couple sound old, but the rest are as good a performance of Mozart as you are ever going to hear. Many people only like the young Sutherland, but I like the color and richness her voice developed with age. She does a Hamlet Mad Scene on this disc at around 60 that is simply amazing! She sounds 45. I heard someone say that when she was old it took her longer to warm the voice up, could sound old when she first started out singing, but by the time she was warmed up you couldn't hear the age anymore. By all means, get this collection. You will wear the 2 discs of French opera arias out. BTW, most of the French stuff is from never, ever performed operas these days so you will not ever have heard them before.
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