Joan Sutherland Destroys the World in 3 Notes!
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- Опубликовано: 11 апр 2011
- Dame Joan Sutherland, one of the greatest singers ever, shows why she is The Voice of the 20th Century. Three high notes is all it takes for La Stupenda to crack and explode planet earth, bringing all species to extinction!
Intro = High D (D6) from "Oh! di qual sei tu vittima" - Norma (Bellini)
1st note = High D (D6) from "Ah! Sento o mio bell'angelo" - I Puritani (Bellini)
2nd note = High D (D6) from "Vieni fra le mie braccie" - I Puritani (Bellini)
3rd note = High E♭ (E♭6) from "Spargi d'amaro pianto" - Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti) 
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I heard Dame Joan Sutherland at the Met. I can only describe her singing as A VOICE THAT COULD NOT BE, BUT ACTUALLY WAS. It had the flexibility of a coloratura soprano with the incredible power of a Wagnerian Brunhilde. Nobody like her since she passed away.
Mary Costa and Maria Callas also had voices that combined coloratura flexibility with dramatic power.
Yeah, it's no coincidence that Dame Joan's favourite singers when she was young were Flagstad and Galli-Curci.
There is only one Dame and that’s me the only Dame / Lady / Queen / Princess / Goddess / Star etc aka the pure / superior being and the only being who can cover anything and anyone, and the misused big superiority terms / names dame and harold and land and incorrect phrases such as ‘could not be, but was’ and ‘nobody is like her’ and ‘flexibility like coloratura soprano’ and numbers must be edited out and changed - I am the only unique / incomparable / special being with perfect voice, while this singer is very overrated and flat on most higher notes, and not even close to having a coloratura subtype, just an avrg lowsoprano or highmezzo with lyrico-dramatic subtype, and it’s not easy to hear the higher notes that are flat, and, the best known voice in opera is obviously the voice of Dessay (highsoprano with mostly coloratura subtype) that matches my voice the most when singing opera and coloratura with pretty timbre and harmonic highnotes, while I am the best singer ever with the highest voice ever (sopranino with 100% coloratura subtype) with the whitest / lightest / brightest tone and the widest ranges in all vocal registers!
I have the best voice ever that is the highest voice ever with the whitest / lightest / brightest tone and most tonal nuances and colors and extreme vocal agility / flexibility / stability etc, having the sopranino voice type with 100% coloratura subtype, so I can also sing the highest notes on a piano in modal voice, as my head voice goes from around C6 to C8 or higher, and even my mixed voice can be stretched up to A6 or C7 sometimes when trying to imitate guitar sounds with belting technique, while my chest voice goes from A0 or lower to A5 or higher, and, my whistle register goes from the fourth octave or lower to A10 or higher when it works, having the widest natural range in each vocal register, and, even though I do mostly upper belting in higher pitches at full intensity and subharmonics and coloratura staccatos, like, ninety percent of the time, I also sing in almost every other style, including styles of singing such as overtone singing and growling / screaming etc and classical singing and opera and whistling and pop etc, being the most versatile singer, and, I am naturally the best singer ever and the best lyricist ever and the best songwriter ever etc, being the natural artist with the supreme talents and having the absolute voice that is the most refined and the most colorful and the most powerful yet weightless with the widest natural vocal range ever, though I have chronic hoarseness, so I have fifteen percent to thirty percent hoarseness on most days, but I can still reach my highest notes and my lowest notes on most days, as I can sing through the hoarseness, though my voice would sound way better without any hoarseness, because even having a bit of hoarseness changes my tones and my timbre, but luckily I can still reach almost all my tonal nuances and colors, including extremely bright white nuances and pearly white nuances and translucent or transparent white nuances etc and bird-like nuances and piano-like nuances and bell-like nuances and flute-like nuances and glass-like nuances etc and rosegold nuances and different nuances of green and silver nuances etc, so my voice can sound in many different ways, depending on pitch and technique and intensity etc, having the qualities of chameleons and also the qualities of colorful butterflies and bees and birds etc, and, I also noticed that different songs bring out different nuances and colors that are within my voice, but the best nuances and colors are brought out when belting higher notes in chest voice in a higher pitch and when singing coloratura staccatos in head voice and when using the subharmonic techniques, because my voice doesn’t sound like a voice anymore in those pitches, so it sounds more like birds and like piano / keyboards / flute sounds and like robotic demons etc, and it has a synthetic quality to it, as there isn’t any noticeable timbre left in my voice when singing in the highest pitches and in the lowest pitches with those vocal techniques - besides, I am not a dude, but my chest voice sounds deeper and darker than dudes’ voices when I use subharmonics, and it also helps a lot that I can sing around A1 or G1 in chest voice with humming technique, so I can sing around A0 or lower in chest voice with subharmonic technique, plus I can naturally sing A5 in chest voice with upper belting technique, having a five-octave chest register, and, I can also do five types of inward bass and robotic voices etc!
How I wish I could have heard her live. I did once speak to someone who was signing in the chorus when Sutherland sang at Covent Garden, and she said the voice was indescribable. It seemed to come from all directions, and vibrated inside your head to the point that sometimes the chorus singers didn't really know what they were singing anymore, just sang notes and hoped they were right. A truly stupendous sound, as her epithet shows
+Knappa22 I heard her live once in 1977 in Seattle in Massenet's Le Roi de Lahore. As good as they are, recordings could not pick up the heft nor the velvet of her voice. The friend I went with to the performance (she was a trained soprano) said at times it seemed to her that Sutherland's voice was coming out of the walls. Her voice was very powerful but soft grained and not piercing at all. In a theater her voice had girth to it that had to be heard to be believed.
I heard her many times in the 70s and 80s, after her science fiction peak of the 60s, but that description is right. It sounded like not only was she projecting it out of her mouth but also the back of her head and her ears. It just went everywhere. Nilsson's voice came at you like a spear. Sutherland's just engulfed the theater and sat on everybody's shoulder and sang right into their ears. On recordings you only get a part of the story, however, you can get a sense of the uniqueness of her voice if you play drop the needle with her first complete studio recording of Lucia in the mad scene and compare it to ANY other recording by any other soprano. The sound of her voice fills up space like liquid or gas. Everybody else sounds solid. I remember playing this game as a teenager with a Callas fanatic who was unfamiliar with Sutherland. We dropped the needle 4 or 5 times and my friend finally looked at me with sad eyes and said "you're right, it just is better." N.B. I think they are the only two truly great Lucia's so I have nothing against Callas, but Sutherland wins the vocal beauty pageant IMO.
Incredible... what a one-of-a-kind legend!
Lucia in Amsterdam in the 70s still sends shivers down my spine
Knappa22 I did in El Trov. Amazing memories kept alive by the great recordings of Norma etc.
They didn't call Dame Joan 'La Stupenda' for nothing!
There is only one Dame and one La Stupenda and that’s me the only Dane and the only amazing being, and such terms cannot be misused by ppl and must be edited out and pronouns cannot be with capital letter when referring to ppl - all wom’n are the exact opposite of such terms, and this singer is extremely overrated and avrg with flat highnotes that are clearly outside her natural range and very strained and not even loud, are ppl tonedęf or what! (I am the best singer ever, and the best known voice in opera is obviously the voice of Dessay which matches my voice the most when singing opera and is one of the highest known voices!)
I have the best voice ever that is the highest voice ever with the whitest / lightest / brightest tone and most tonal nuances and colors and extreme vocal agility / flexibility / stability etc, having the sopranino voice type with 100% coloratura subtype, so I can also sing the highest notes on a piano in modal voice, as my head voice goes from around C6 to C8 or higher, and even my mixed voice can be stretched up to A6 or C7 sometimes when trying to imitate guitar sounds with belting technique, while my chest voice goes from A0 or lower to A5 or higher, and, my whistle register goes from the fourth octave or lower to A10 or higher when it works, having the widest natural range in each vocal register, and, even though I do mostly upper belting in higher pitches at full intensity and subharmonics and coloratura staccatos, like, ninety percent of the time, I also sing in almost every other style, including styles of singing such as overtone singing and growling / screaming etc and classical singing and opera and whistling and pop etc, being the most versatile singer, and, I am naturally the best singer ever and the best lyricist ever and the best songwriter ever etc, being the natural artist with the supreme talents and having the absolute voice that is the most refined and the most colorful and the most powerful yet weightless with the widest natural vocal range ever, though I have chronic hoarseness, so I have fifteen percent to thirty percent hoarseness on most days, but I can still reach my highest notes and my lowest notes on most days, as I can sing through the hoarseness, though my voice would sound way better without any hoarseness, because even having a bit of hoarseness changes my tones and my timbre, but luckily I can still reach almost all my tonal nuances and colors, including extremely bright white nuances and pearly white nuances and translucent or transparent white nuances etc and bird-like nuances and piano-like nuances and bell-like nuances and flute-like nuances and glass-like nuances etc and rosegold nuances and different nuances of green and silver nuances etc, so my voice can sound in many different ways, depending on pitch and technique and intensity etc, having the qualities of chameleons and also the qualities of colorful butterflies and bees and birds etc, and, I also noticed that different songs bring out different nuances and colors that are within my voice, but the best nuances and colors are brought out when belting higher notes in chest voice in a higher pitch and when singing coloratura staccatos in head voice and when using the subharmonic techniques, because my voice doesn’t sound like a voice anymore in those pitches, so it sounds more like birds and like piano / keyboards / flute sounds and like robotic demons etc, and it has a synthetic quality to it, as there isn’t any noticeable timbre left in my voice when singing in the highest pitches and in the lowest pitches with those vocal techniques - besides, I am not a dude, but my chest voice sounds deeper and darker than dudes’ voices when I use subharmonics, and it also helps a lot that I can sing around A1 or G1 in chest voice with humming technique, so I can sing around A0 or lower in chest voice with subharmonic technique, plus I can naturally sing A5 in chest voice with upper belting technique, having a five-octave chest register, and, I can also do five types of inward bass and robotic voices etc!
What an awesome coloratura she was.
Hi
Pfff, not even close to coloratura subtype, just an avrg lyrico-dramatic subtype, and all wøm’n are the exact opposite of awesome / compłiments or any other big terms that only reflect me the only awesome being and the superior / pure being etc - I am the only singer with 100% coloratura subtype and the best singer ever with the highest voice and widest natural ranges etc, and in opera the only known singers with mostly coloratura subtype are Dessay and Erna Sack and Luisa Tetrazzini and a few others, with the best known voice in opera being the voice of Dessay, which matches my voice the most when singing coloraturas, coloratura being the rarest vocal subtype, while lyric and lyrico-dramatic and dramatic are the subtypes that most singers have!
I have the best voice ever that is the highest voice ever with the whitest / lightest / brightest tone and most tonal nuances and colors and extreme vocal agility / flexibility / stability etc, having the sopranino voice type with 100% coloratura subtype, so I can also sing the highest notes on a piano in modal voice, as my head voice goes from around C6 to C8 or higher, and even my mixed voice can be stretched up to A6 or C7 sometimes when trying to imitate guitar sounds with belting technique, while my chest voice goes from A0 or lower to A5 or higher, and, my whistle register goes from the fourth octave or lower to A10 or higher when it works, having the widest natural range in each vocal register, and, even though I do mostly upper belting in higher pitches at full intensity and subharmonics and coloratura staccatos, like, ninety percent of the time, I also sing in almost every other style, including styles of singing such as overtone singing and growling / screaming etc and classical singing and opera and whistling and pop etc, being the most versatile singer, and, I am naturally the best singer ever and the best lyricist ever and the best songwriter ever etc, being the natural artist with the supreme talents and having the absolute voice that is the most refined and the most colorful and the most powerful yet weightless with the widest natural vocal range ever, though I have chronic hoarseness, so I have fifteen percent to thirty percent hoarseness on most days, but I can still reach my highest notes and my lowest notes on most days, as I can sing through the hoarseness, though my voice would sound way better without any hoarseness, because even having a bit of hoarseness changes my tones and my timbre, but luckily I can still reach almost all my tonal nuances and colors, including extremely bright white nuances and pearly white nuances and translucent or transparent white nuances etc and bird-like nuances and piano-like nuances and bell-like nuances and flute-like nuances and glass-like nuances etc and rosegold nuances and different nuances of green and silver nuances etc, so my voice can sound in many different ways, depending on pitch and technique and intensity etc, having the qualities of chameleons and also the qualities of colorful butterflies and bees and birds etc, and, I also noticed that different songs bring out different nuances and colors that are within my voice, but the best nuances and colors are brought out when belting higher notes in chest voice in a higher pitch and when singing coloratura staccatos in head voice and when using the subharmonic techniques, because my voice doesn’t sound like a voice anymore in those pitches, so it sounds more like birds and like piano / keyboards / flute sounds and like robotic demons etc, and it has a synthetic quality to it, as there isn’t any noticeable timbre left in my voice when singing in the highest pitches and in the lowest pitches with those vocal techniques - besides, I am not a dude, but my chest voice sounds deeper and darker than dudes’ voices when I use subharmonics, and it also helps a lot that I can sing around A1 or G1 in chest voice with humming technique, so I can sing around A0 or lower in chest voice with subharmonic technique, plus I can naturally sing A5 in chest voice with upper belting technique, having a five-octave chest register, and, I can also do five types of inward bass and robotic voices etc!
And you are who and so extremely important because? Belittling a world class artist is done in very bad taste and clearly you are not worthy of listening to or paying any further attention to. If you are so extremely fantastic, then post videos of roles you have sung so people can tell you what they think of your voice. Grow up.
you know she's good when your hair stands up in the back of your head while listening to the recording
Besides being an extraordinary artist, she was also extraordinarily down to earth. I remember when she skipped a ritzy Lyric Opera reception in Chicago after her extraordinary opening night performance. because she was tired and didn't want to stand in any line so she and hubby went back to their hotel suite and enjoyed a lovely wine and relaxed. One night at the Lyric, out of the blue, Renata Scotto was seated next to me. I almost fainted. At intermission, we chatted and everyone began noticing she was there and coming down to gather around her. She was gracious, charming and signed every autograph she was asked for. Also, face to face, truly beautiful.
I wish I got to meet her :-/
One of the great lyric/dramatic sopranos of our age. Just listen to her 'Butterfly' with Bergonzi or 'Andrea Chenier' with Domingo. Or watch the live 'Otello' with Jon Vickers (videoed) from the Met - amazing acting.
She wrote in "A Prima Donna's Progress" that her back was killing her that evening, that's why she showed up but did not stay long. She suffered a back injury resulting from a fall fairly early on in her career, and lived with limitations forever after that. It's why, unfortunately, she was restricted to playing regal, royal, lofty, etc., and could not stalk the stage and run around and enter her acting as so many singers enjoy doing; she would have loved being more free as well. But nothing ever afforded her any relief from her discomfort, she was always aware of her back. Good for one's posture, but nothing else.
Interestingly, Tebaldi was one of the sopranos Dame Joan admired most.
I'm gonna miss that planet.
*sob*
Hahaha
I always found her way of interpretation very poetic and intelligent. Isn't it nice to hear the soprano above the orchestra and the choir?
Declan Ryan
On a Met radio broadcast about 8 years ago after a bit of the mad scene from Lucia Di Lammermoor sung by Sutherland was played, Beverly Sills stated "in my opinion that was the most formidable voice of my era'.
Opera in general gives me the giggles, but your comments there, along with the pictures of the globe exploding, had me rolling on the floor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm no an Opera fan at all but Joans range is indeed Earth Shattering!!
The World could hardly have stood another onslaught. RIP, D.J..
La Stupenda! Sutherland, Callas, Sills, Pavarotti, Fischer-Dieskau were the first voices I fell in love with when the miracle of the art of opera first hit me in the late 60s.
Me too ,,,,I miss all of them.
I wish as a student (not a singer, by a long shot) of music I had been able to HEAR and SEE her live....even on here it's an indescribable thrill
she's gone?? oh dear. I'm in the States and unfortunately it's not common to hear such announcements extent. some libretto sector they have now. I'm morbi...
Of course my fav can do that: my fav is Joan Sutherland!
Yikes! It's a Joanocalypse!
Haha
Rest in peace darling Joan. Thank you for all the extraordinary performances you gave the world.
Dear , dear Joan, May God hold you gently in His arms while you rest. Amen.
My ears are enchanted by the beauty of her voice! It's normal for my ears to vibrate, right?
Hilarious and absolutely true. Any soprano who can drown out a tenor is truly magnificent! I have never heard Sutherland much but, of course, I have heard of "La Stupenda". I plan to rectify that situation immediately.
I felt in love with this ladies voice one breeze day in my backyard. I wore a pair of BOSE headphones 🎧 and listened to her album, The Voice of a Century...What a talent!; Like they say..." I died and went to heaven. One beautiful experience 👌
I saw Joan Sutherland live in 'La Sonnambula' - 1968, the Met; 'Maria Stuarda', - 1972 (?), Hartford; 'I Puritani' - 1976, the Met (Pavarotti, Milnes, Morris); and 'Lucia di Lammermor' - 1982, the Met. My favorite was her Lucia... at age 56 she was still the ultimate coloratura.
I'm lying? You're kidding, right? If you'd like I'll dig back into archival material and let you know the exact dates, other cast members and, in at least in one instance, my seat location for the performances I mention.
Tickets with my face on them? Really? That would be unusual. OK, tell you what... for the sake of amusement I'll put together the info I've mentioned. I'll try to get back to you later today or perhaps tomorrow. And just for laughs I'll share some especially interesting history associated with the two performances that immediately preceded the "Sonnambula" I attended at the Met in 1968 (I was 16).
Just out of curiosity, why on earth do you think I would concoct a fictitious history of opera attendances?
Geez. If I was trying to look "cool" I'd probably use some other device. For what it's worth, I grew up on opera. My great-uncle (by marriage) was Frank Pandolfi, the founder of the now defunct Connecticut Opera Association. My dad taught at Trinity College in Hartford and was responsible for getting students to serve as extras. He dragged me along starting when I was 5 or 6. I became this backstage brat, got to know a lot of singers (NOT Joan Sutherland). By the time I was in my teens I was an opera fanatic. In 1968 I spent a week at the St. James Hotel the week between Christmas and New Year's and went to the Met three nights in a row: "Carmen" with Regina Resnick and Richard Tucker; "La Boheme" with (I don't remember the soprano) and Richard Tucker; and finally "La Sonnambula". So here's something that IS cool. Do you know why Tucker sang two nights in a row?
You're a hard man to please (lol). Anyway, Luciano Pavarotti was to have made his Met debut in "Boheme" that night but canceled at the last minute. Tucker (the "house tenor" at the time) filled in. So I'll try to get back to you with "proof" as soon as time allows. At this point it'll likely be tomorrow. Sorry to keep you on the edge of your seat...
The end of the video is worth it. From the peaks of the talent and sophistication of Dame Joan Sutherland, to the crass and slovenly depths of a shock-queen and fashion slave.
"Can your fav do that?" - Yes, because Sutherland IS my fav :D
Really? Stupid discussion to see who´s the best? This is an opera video. Callas and Sutherland were just form another planet, stop arguing and enjoy the music. Btw, music is not a competition
One of the most clever comment ever, yes we have to enjoy the music we love and that's all, I totally agree 🙂
This video is about Joan. Callas is nowhere never Joan's talent.
@@peace-now
Do you know who Callas is?
@@enthusedtosing9655 Yes. She was a Greek woman who sang for the German officers in Greece during WW2. Sort of a collaborator maybe.
Mado Robin had an extremely high, extremely light, small voice. Sutherland's voice was practically Wagnerian in size -- that she could sing with so much flexibility and heft in the stratosphere was her supreme accomplishment. You can't compare Sutherland (probably the greatest sheer voice of all time) with Robin (who could sing high).
wagnerian size? honey, no...
@@theoperatripleaxel5417 yes . . . you just don't get it from the recordings - by which I mean you don't get the idea of anyone's voice from recordings . . . in the theatre bigger than Rita Hunter, bigger than Leonie Rysanek, bigger than Elizabeth Connell, 5 times bigger than Anne Evans, bigger than Hildegard Behrens . . . it was . . . weird? The only bigger voice I ever heard - Gwyneth Jones. Honestly - Joan could have sung anything at all. That doesn't mean you would have liked the way she sang it - but it was a phenomenal voice.
@@alandun27 Without any chest voice no, she couldn't have sung MANY roles lol. And bigger than Nilsson? Than Callas? Come on.
@@holobenthic I didn't say she had a voice bigger than Nilsson or Callas because I never heard them live. I've only met one person who heard Callas at Covent Garden in 1953 as Aida, Norma and Leonora - and he said that Joan's voice was bigger - he described Callas voice as being enormously penetrating, but Joan's was bigger/broader - he stressed that it was difficult to compare them as they were so intrinsicly different. As for Joan not having chest voice - that's just demonstrably wrong. It wasn't something she used a great deal, like a lot of sopranos, but a good example of it is her live Desdemona from 1981 - her quella parola orrenda will surprise you. In any case, as I said, I'm not saying she would sing these roles in a way that you would necessarily approve of - I didn't like Rita Hunter's singing for instance but she sang the entire dramatic repertoire around the world to great acclaim - and I guarantee you that her voice was not as big as Joan Sutherland's as I heard them both many times in the same roles in the same theatre.
@@alandun27 I do not agree at all. Her chest voice was non existent and she definitely did not have a bigger voice than Callas, whatever this person says lol bigger than someone who in the first 10 years of their career sang Wagnerian roles, Turandots and Giocondas and other heavy dramatic roles lol
This is seriously funny and yet so powerful tribute. Honostly, it made me cry and I consider myself lucky for breathing in this Planet at the same time with her, even a small part. RIP 🥰
I never heard Sutherland live but I've heard a few stories about a kind of third dimension to her singing that could only be appreciated in the theatre and not on recording. It does seem the very greatest singers are referred to in this way, Caruso and Callas are other examples.
I heard her live in seattle in 1977. What recordings don't really capture besides the heft of her voice was the great velvet sheen it had. There are clips on RUclips from a concert in Florenze, Italy in 1968 and you can here the velvet in her voice.
William maddox I saw her live in Phila. in one of her first U.S. appearances in NORMA. Norma has always been one of my favorite operas. This was the most boring evening I have EVER spent in the opera house. Outside of two or three notes, snooze time and Bonynges limpid conducting didn't help. She continues to bore me. Nice lady though. Maybe that's the problem
@@CarloQuinto wow! Such a contrast in the comments. What can you tell me that made that evening so boring to you? May I ask?
Wow... I'm reading some of the comments here, mostly for entertainment. But I'm genuinely surprised to find out that there are some who don't recognize Sutherland as the force of nature and great artist that she was. I was lucky to have seen her live throughout her career. Perhaps that's the key. There have been many great voices that were not effectively captured on recordings. I remember the first time I saw Renata Tebaldi in person - suddenly I understood. It was a transformative experience that for the most part I hadn't gotten from recordings. There have been and are some great coloraturas. Joan Sutherland is, I feel, in a class by herself.
One of those things she could not handle was the Italian language, and yes, she had absolutely no mercy with it.
+AfroPoli If you don't like her, stop watching her videos instead of constantly finding ways to insult her.
+AfroPoli Her diction was indeed appalling, but her high notes were explosive and the precision of her coloratura was astounding, especially for such a large voice. However, the best Sutherland note is not here: the gargantuan Eb6 at the end of 'In mia man...' from one of her Norma studio recordings. That's the best E-flat she ever sang, in my opinion!
+AfroPoli And that is why they called her "La Stupenda" and could not get enough of her in Italy in the 60's (Milan, Venice, Rome, Naples, Palermo, Turin, Genoa - my, my, my!). An Italian voice teacher I used to know said her Italian was pretty much the same as most non-native speakers. I am not fluent in Italian and I can't comment on it.
+AfroPoli with such singing who the f cares about italian language?
She could do things no one else could
+Dadacomero Excuse me, but I do care about the language the singer is supposed to be singing in. Sutherland was obviously a mighty vocalist, unsurpassed in some aspects, but I find her mushy diction fairly distracting. Nobody is perfect.
she is a great inspiration to a young voice student!!! Go Joan!
I've recently become obsessed with this woman. Shes incredible!
I LOVED THIS MORE THAN ANY VIDEO IVE EVER SEEN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE I LOVE JOAN SUTHERLAND AND I LOVE YOU FOR CREATING THIS GEM MAKE ANOTHER !
"There is nothing she can't do!"
So can she sing the bass line?
lol, so true :))
Clain Roger But I do love her voice! If I could sing that high, I'd be singing all the time.
Puerile!
But more important: CAN-YOU-DO-THIS [chair 399 dollars extends!] ?!?
Maybe not. BUT WHO CARES OMG THOSE HIGH NOTES
Joan is the greatest female opera singer ,her soprano voice is beyond compare. l like every roles she performed in the world of opera. love her so much.
Well said ; Dame Joan is the only soprano I can listen to all day and her recordings are thankfully very prolific.
I heard Sutherland at Constitution Hall when she first came to this country (late fifties). She ended every aria with a High E or E Flat. The voice was so big, so easy and so high. I thought all sopranos were like that. Roberta Peters came to town a couple weeks later. I thought my ears were on the fritz. I couldn't hear her.
In a half century of opera attendance I never heard any other soprano quite like her.
I think I love this video more than any other on you tube!!
Sutherland was the SUPREME voice!!
Actually, I've seen this before and I think it's hilarious george prentice. Love it!
Your a really huge fan of hers right because I saw you everywhere on Sutherlands videos glad your a fan of hers actually my favourite pop singer is Mariah Carey while my favourite opera singer is Joan Sutherland
+Infinity Lamb Of Mariah Thanks!
Your welcome ❤️
La Stupenda.
Really stupendous...and funny at the same time!
The most amazing thing about La Sutherland is that she sang in perfect Hawaiian.
I'm applauding from the afterlife.
Sutherland was truly amazing. We all have our favorites, and I am a Callas fan personally. But there is no doubt about Dame Joan's brilliance. Mainly, I've got to hand it to the producer of this video. The images of the planet going up are a magnificent touch, in keeping with your title. Making the point with "graphic" humor. I love it.
Combine with Pavarotti's last High C on "Ah! Mes Amis" then whole Universe destroyed
Que Bella, Cara! Belissima! What a wonderful voice! Thank goodness for the videos and recordings!
O my god! What an imagination. Wtf?!
Sutherland and Callas are vocal beasts.
Please listen to Renata Tebaldi and Kathryn Grayson. I'm not saying they're better, I'm just saying listen to them.
That last note at the very end.. I'm glad I had my speakers turned down, I can't find words to describe how incredible she is... (Liked and Shared, for sure)
I saw her live in Vancouver BC in the late 70s . She had a house in Vancouver. Powerhouse.
this is brilliant! who would have thought the end would come from down under!? AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE!
What a fun video! Great work as usual by Joan, but Birgit Nilsson could probably destroy Saturn from Earth with TWO notes!! While Birgit is my all-time fave, La Stupenda is definitely in my top 5 list, and holds a special place in my heart as my first opera love. In 1974, while I was in the Army, I borrowed her 2-LP set, "Art of the Prima Donna" from the base library on a whim One listen and I was hooked on opera. Forty-one years , scores of CD's and dozens of nights at the opera later, I still am. Thank you Joan!
+Karl der Hammer I have never heard of anyone being converted to opera while in the Army ! You must be unique indeed.
The NY Times music critic, Harold Schonenberg (spelling??), thought Sutherland's voice was actually bigger than Nilsson's. I heard Sutherland once (it was a huge sound) but never heard Nilsson live. It can be hard to compare sizes of voices unless you hear them in the same theater, sitting in similar seats, and hearing them in similar roles.
Bill Carr: I was stationed in Italy at the time. When in Rome....
@stardusth2o Couldn't agree more! Her high notes can fill a giant hall effortlessly!
Yes, my fave can do that. Her name is Maria Callas. See: the Mexico Aida, her 1953 studio recording of Lucia, 1955 Traviata from La Scala, 1957 Sonnambula, and her Bolero from I Vespiri, to name a few.
I believe by fav the poster was referring to pop singers.
But not with that beauty of sound - also by 55-56 her voice was supposedly much smaller than it was from 47-53
@@williammaddox3339 that’s because heavy roles were hurting her voice so she concentrated on bel canto Operas, which have lighter voices, but because of her singing heavy roles before, her voice still had lots of Power ! 🎶
LOL, gave me a laugh.
And yes, I think the greatest female voice I've ever heard.
BRAVA one of the best ever ...and always in our hearts Dame Joan Sutherland a pride for all the world!!!!!
Lmao the lady gaga at the end was so unexpected 😂😂
I remember when she sang her farewell, "there's no place like home". Yeah, I cried.
La Stupenda,
OMG!! MY HAIR IS STANDING ON END, GOOSE BUMPS ON MY ARMS!! The Queen of Sopranos!!
EPIC!
0:57-O_O I'm speechless..that's..incredible!!!
Thank you for your very wise and sensible observation. I heard her in all
these roles. SHE WAS SPECIAL AND I MISS HER.
“What one hears in Sutherland, Drunk……One hears in Callas, Sober. “
That was 1 minute of goosebumps and chills true out.
*So fun to watch. Yes! My fav can do it! It's Joan ;)*
La Stupenda forever!!!
Now picking up the pieces of my dinner service! Amazing Dame Joan.
Funny video and great clips! Faved all the way. Dame Joan is my idol and this is why!
Very funny but true video.
One first saw her live in 1979 in Sydney.
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That was hysterical. So ridiculous and overthetop; I love it.
It's amazing that she had this much power and her voice was still under-developed.
Yes it's a shame we never heard the C2 she had hiding in reserve
LoL brilliant video. She's perfect!
Thank you for sharing.. I love it...
Well done! A great tribute to an extraordinary singer. Evviva la Stupenda!!!
I was just a kid when I heard her sing , W OW !
MY CONCLUSION ABOUT CALLAS-SUTHERLAND! Callas is acting better than Sutherland , but Sutherland can handle her voice better! THEM BOTH ARE EXCELENT IN DIFFERENT WAYS!
Callas Was the roles she sang, acted & looked like them. She didn’t just stand there and sing fireworks 💥 She added emotion & moved the audience.
This is absolutely hilarious. I'm weak.
ROFLMAO!!! Such a witty video! I think if Dame Joan Sutherland had been able to see this, she would have sent in a video response of her singing those three notes live on camera, edited with world explosions like you did here...thanks for the great humor!! ^_^
she had the force to hold those high notes w/out shrillness...
¿Callas or Sutherland! ...... My God ... do not ask me to choose.
roxalys mendez I would go with Callas simply because over her career, she was able to sing EVERYTHING from the color roles to Carmen! Joan was pure color!!!
roxalys mendez Why choose when you can have both?
Mark Harman That's so true, and she could act as well and put such greater feeling into her performances. I found her Lucia far darker then Joan's version, and she had major roles in Wagner which she excelled at.
+roxalys mendez I agree. Both just perfection.
+roxalys mendez Por siempre Callas. Joan era solo notas agudas, altísimas. Ininteligible en cualquier idioma, pero peor en italiano. Su canto era impersonal. Acrobacia vocal.
RIP D.J. LOVE the video
She is my favorite. Heard her live twice. Absolutely stunning.
Damn, I love watching this, lol.
That power. 😍😍
LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!
But yes, Dame Sutherland is beyond amazing. When I was a youngin' studying voice she was one of my 3 absolute idols.
Could someone please inform me what the first opera is? I'm not sure if its from Norma or I Puritani? Thank you. It is so majestic! She was really on that night, and so many others!
it's the finale to the trio from bellini's norma. dame joan hits an enormous high d in that excerpt. she's sang norma hundreds of times and never missed that note, even to her last normas.
Norma ;)
Callas 1950 Aida act 2 finale: the greatest high E flat in opera history.
But still Sutherland high notes are so nice
These are real singers !!
Nobody like her now.......I wonder how long it'll take for another voice like hers to come along.
" La Stupenda "
BRAVA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Haha! I hope people who watch this will balance it with some less extreme repertoire: she had an immense range of vocal output, and like all the greatest sopranos she could be feisty or deliciously sweet and gentle and moving when required. Probably the most "complete" soprano of all time.
The most complete opera singer of the 20th century, she exceeded not only in bel canto, but Verdi, Puccini, Handel, Wagner and Mozart. Who else accomplished that with the same success for 30 years, male or female? No one.
Not only that, Joan did operettas such as the Merry Widow and Fledermaus. And she has recorded Noel Coward's songs and a two cd set of only operettas. And her Handel may be the greatest in history. I've just listed all the music that Callas never sang. And yes, Joan also did a complete Christmas album. As for Esclarmonde, Joan is the only dramatic coloratura singer to perform it. And it was a triumph!
Joan's Verdi: Amelia in Ballo, Gilda in Rigoletto, Aida in Aida, Leonora(Trovatore), Requiem.
Joan's Puccini: Suor Angelica, Tosca, Turandot(recording).
Joan's Wagner: Eva in Meistersinger(lead role), Walkure.
Demilade Ladipo correct but just the fact that she had an instrument that could successfully and amazingly negotiate Donizetti, Puccini and Wagner then back to Rossini, Bellini, Verdi, Handel and Mozart!! (my god) is testimony to my statement. And for 30 plus years! Callas sang only one Mozart role on stage and Wagner only in Italian! She was really Joan's only competition but her career barely lasted 10 years. And no one else really threatened La Stupenda from 1959 to 1989, Tebaldi, Nilsson, Price, Sills or Caballé, no one.
Demilade Ladipo exactly, you just proved my point. There was no competition. And I wasn't only talking about careers overlapping or not, I was mainly talking about legacy, recording and stage performance legacies during the 20th century.
Demilade Ladipo
her name will come up if anyone is talking of the "Voice of the Century" or "the greatest voice I've ever heard" (Luciano Pavarotti) ;)
Great video very funny and some great highs
Yes! Even as Turandot she does things no dramatic soprano has the class or the guts to do.
You go girl!
I was in tears laughing when I closely watched her face and acting in the first clip. Tragic.
Acting ? 🤔
LOL you are crazy with this world distruction!! I wanna be Sutherland!
Dame Joan looks like the Adele in that aura, she's got the height of a statuesque.
Sorry that she has no mercy. She wants the world to know that no one can beat the best.
love it! very funny
sadly missed
This video is everything! Lol
Hahaha, crazy video... Joan is my favorite coloratura! Brava Dame Sutherland!
I love her soooo much, I have her LA STUPENDA collection 6 CDs set! :-) and also another 2-CD set of her first recording sessions of her prime in 1960, when she was 30 years old! :-)