Hi John, I was 12 in 1963 & so you must be older than me or maybe the same age. If you are younger than 12 I am very jealous lol. Take care my friend Arnold Bourbon Amaral.
I heard he live twice. She was fantastic. Something that surprised me was that recordings really never captured how sumptuous her high notes were. They had an amazing power.
That's right, I was always disappointed in the sound Decca captured. Her greater risk-taking live was more exciting than her carefully controlled studio work.
I never sang with Dame Joan (I was in high school when she retired) but I have sung with singers who sang with her. They echo your sentiments about her....kind, humble, easy to work with and almost unaware of the superhuman powers that she possessed.
Yes even after a gruelling night onstage she would stop for all her fans, chat and sign programs or libretti. She always smiled and called us "dear" and we adored her, some people having queued all night for tickets.
Have had the privilege of hearing Ms Sutherland sing multiple times. Certainly one of the top singers of the 20th century. But what many people don't realize is that she was a fantastic comedian. Got to see her in Fledermaus in San Francisco and she brought the house down.
Thank you so much for this compilation...it reminds me of just how unbelievable Joan Sutherland was and how much I love her and how much we will miss her. There just isn't anyone that even approaches her....on any level.
I saw Joan many times in Sydney and Melbourne, even in her later career when the roles were probably transposed down, and never have I seen anything as exciting as when Richard would whip the orchestra and chorus to the finale, look up at Joan, the universe would stop (you can hear it on all these recordings), Joan would lean back on one leg and the high note would fill the theatre and you would weep and your hair would stand on end and your skin would prickle hot and cold!
How fortunate you were my friend. I was 9 year's old in 1960.And I was born & raised in South Western USA. But I can deeply appreciate That the top three Divas of the golden era were great in different decades & they tend to overlap to the previous artist after their prime. CALLAS reign supreme in the late forties and early fifties. Sutherland own the sixties. Caballe late sixties on the 70s. Each great diva at their. own time. Callas will always reign supreme. That's really not debatable. Sad to say now we have no one like those three great Divas. Leontyne price will always be the exception because of her unique exceptional voice so much color the greatest voice to come out of America. The only Soprano I would go see today is Hernandez. Take care of my friend. Sincerely Arnold Bourbon Amaral 69 years young & holding
Exactly!!!My experience in 1985 London Lucias was the same… great partnering, orchestra and chorus unleashed and Joan gorgeously, warmly levels above everyone!!!!
Absolutely fantastic voice. Even though I'm a huge Mari Callas fan, I can not in good conscience not give Joan Sutherland the praise she deserves. Such magnificent performance, liquid-like vocals.
Joan will be remembered forever as one of the greatest soprano's of all era's. My goodness we miss her when compared to today's modern "stars" of opera
This wonderful upload brings back such incredibly happy memories of hundreds of 'Opera Sundays' my partner and I enjoyed from 40 years ago onwards!! We would listen to our respective Gal's singing their hearts out all day interjected with lots of gasps!, "wow's!", and shouts of BRAVA! . We still recall those Sundays with great joy!! I can only add more gasps and "wow's" and shouts of Brava to this wonderful upload and a Bravo to you CaptBattleaxe for this great upload!!
Her voice was so huge in the theatre that it seemed to be coming from all around you and enveloping you rather than from the stage. She was also a delightful person. After one Sonnambula performance, I waited at the Met stage door, with at least a couple of hundred others at first, to catch a glimpse of her. It was January and an exceedingly cold night for New York. After more than half an hour of waiting there were only three of us left. Suddenly the stage door opened and someone came out and said "MFiss Sutherland wonders if you would have tea with her." I think all three of us thought we had died and gone to opera heaven. For the next 45 minutes we were able to sit and talk with her and Richard, ask questions about performing [the other two were voice students] and sit in awe of how down to earth our diva was.
fantastico comentario...............ella era mucho mas que sus grandes notas..............era y es una mujer super excepcional.......................de todos los tiempos..........pues esa garra...a la hora de cantar....era .....imponente.y extrema........algo unico en una cantante de opera....y de musica moderna...o contemporanea..................ella daba la locura en el canto hasta dejarnos estremecidos ..................y con el corazon en un puño.....................algo inaudito en cualquier otra cantante.................
Yes, Dame Joan is truly one of the greats, thought never my favourite. This compilation is absolutely brilliant, because there's everything I like about her: The fabulous E-flats!!!! Thank's for uploading this.
The late Dame Joan Sutherland was arguably one of the greatest Lucias and an amazing Soprano. 👏 Am sure La Stupenda as she was affectionately called is now singing with the angels in the hereafter. ❤
Very amusing story, thank you. Klemperer was indeed one of the giants of conducting. I was lucky enough to hear many of his concerts (and attend several rehearsals) with the Philharmonia in 1958/59 while studying at the Royal Academy of Music. His Beethoven cycle was amazing, plus also together with Claudio Arrau performing all 5 of the piano concertos. And his recording of Fidelio with Christa Ludwig is still the gold standard of that opera.
I agree. In many of her performances (live and studio) I've often thought her Ebs were on the verge of being out of control. This has always been my favorite...dead on solid. And kudos to John Alexander as Pollione. He was always just great!
dame joan sang an even better E flat in her live norma from 1963. i forget if alexander is the pollione in that production. "in mia man" is the duet with the E flat.
It's hard to chose top 10 for Sutherland's high notes, all of them are breathtaking, even at her decline her high notes were still better than many soprani high notes in their prime!
That final recording, you can really hear how powerful her voice was to be able to sustain those notes over the din of the orchestra. These skills are dying out now, mark my words there won't be another Sutherland in our lifetime or this civilisation.
exactly none could compare sent from heaven thats a fact wow wow wow i heard her as a child on the radio and my father loved her . he always said noone can compare with Joan he was right
I heard her very first perfomances of Norma, Lucrezia Borgia, Merry Widow and Roi de Lahore, as well as 3 Lucias and a concert with Bel Raggio, Hamlet Mad Scene and The Soldier Tir'd. The recordings don't do full justice to her sound in a big opera house. I remember particularly how in the Lucia sextet with 5 other soloists, chorus and orchestra her voice soared above them all. There will never be another even close to her for technical perfection.and astonishing high notes!
John Mitchell, I heard her live a number of times and completely concur. Especially wonderful, of those I heard (not Norma or Lucia, alas) was Esclarmonde. Her voice was not down there, or up there, on the stage it was with you in the house surrounding you in a way I never heard from another singer. Even Nilsson's laser pointer.;)
Of the ten, the first Eb is rather labored, I'm afraid. I heard her a number of times and her sound in the house was astonishing. It enveloped and surrounded you. And when you were there the "diction" issue never bothered one at all.
the 1st one was not the best, at the end..... the 2nd one was pretty good the 3rd one was exquisite 4th was amazing She was and is top of tops, thanks "Dame Stupenda" for your voice and music! Sutherland for ever and ever! :-D
You HAD to experience Ms.Sutherland on stage before you say dumb things(like she screamed or distortion and manipulation)I'm sure those were made by people who can't read music and have no idea of what they're listening to.
I seem to mainly listen to Dame Joan’s recordings these days because no other soprano compares ; nice and easy for me.Having to settle on other divas singing Aida,Butterfly,Mimi and Tosca only makes me wish Joan had been able to record the roles.Too late now.
@KathrynARyder Your assessment is indeed accurate. The nice E-flat I linked to above was from 2000. The "E-flats" I heard from a 2009 Lucia were painfully below pitch. Alackaday that Netrebko's technique is not as good as that of Callas or Sutherland.
For the love of God can I watch just one fucking video without seeing people shittalk a colleague? Callas, Sutherland, Nilsson, Price, Tebaldi, Freni, Caballe, Mattila & the like - they all love and respect each other's art without trying to compare one another...why can't we?
I feel the same way my friend. When the posts is about a particular artist comment about the ARTIST! Not someone else. No one asked for you to compare but to appreciate that one artist & what they're capable of doing. End of discussion. Then they start arguing like a high school debate team. Like my daughter would say some people LOL. Take care my friend. Arnold Bourbon Amaral
@CaptFitzbattleaxe I get goosebumps at your description alone but, not to be catty, it should have been the other way around: "Only Dame Joan could compete with La Divinia… -- no one." ;-) I don't understand half of what she's saying but, my goodness, the voice is, well, awesome in the true sense of the word.
@CaptFitzbattleaxe Hallstein is still very much alive today and still involved with singing competitions (as a judge) and giving master classes. She did not become a world household name because she sang mainly in Germany, Austria and other continental European countries and didn't indulge in PR promotions because she was not too keen on travelling etc.She is more a musician's musician rather than popular superstar!! In Germany and Austria though, she is regarded as a mega coloratura superstar.
assolutamente unica: per leggerezza. piacevolezza e padronanza della voce sempre. arrivava in altezza soavemente lì dove 'altri miti' non potevano cimentarsi.
LO SIENTO POR SUS HUEVOS................PERO ES ESE DOLOR..................EL SUYO........Y NO TIENE QUE VER CON EL CANTO GRANDIOSO DE UNA GRAN CANTANTE..............SINO DE LA TORPEZA DE TU AMIGO AL SUBIRSE LA CREMALLERA.....Y PARA VACILAR................TE VAS A LA CALLE Y DICES ESTUPIDECES CON TUS AMIGOS.......Y PERDONAME CHE.....................
Sutherland took an enormous E flat in her first studio's Pollione/Norma duet and in a live 1963 performance. Search RUclips for those Eb6 by using the following words... Joan Sutherland - Norma - Bellini - Duo Norma/Pollione (live Vancouver 1963) She held those Eb6 forever!
Peter Anastos -- THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for reminding folks! They give Callas farrrrrrrrrrrr more credit than she deserves! Dame Joan Sutherland HAD NO EQUAL -- she was "STUPENDOUS"!!!!!! See my earlier comments for others close to her equal -- Callas is NOT one of them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@KathrynARyder Check out the G6 sang by Ingeborg Hallstein in the Lakme bell song and also her A6 from Il Bacio. Her Proch variations are also fabuloous and so is her "Caro Nome". The most thrilling and melodic high notes you could wish for. And her recording of Seraglio is amazing too. She may not be the household name that Sutherland was because she sang mostly in Germany and continental Europe but she was a great favourite of Otto Klemperer's and I wouldn't discount his opinion.
Battleaxe, your point exactly is what? Yul Brynner gave more performances in THE KING AND I than Gertrude Lawrence BECAUSE SHE DIED 18 months into the original Broadway Run. Joan Sutherland was only 3 years younger than Maria Callas so the Callas career should have continued if she took better care of her voice, mind and heart. She was not as disciplined as Joan Sutherland to record her iconic roles of Lady Macbeth, Anna Belen’s or better recordings of La Sonnambula, Medea or La Traviata. So many wasted opportunities while Joan Sutherland had in balance a better life and career. And I saw her last 3 Norma’s in Detroit: They were great!!!
Just a question from an amateur....who was great in her day, or since, at hitting that note and transitioning? I'm not trying to be a jerk, she's amazing....just want to know if there has been someone else....I listen to opera all the time on here, and I haven't heard notes like that, even from the few Callas videos...
+Soren Aleksander No one since has been able to produce a sound quite like this....certainly not with the size of voice she possessed. Even in a large house like the Met, it was, like Nilsson's voice simply riveting. I doubt we will hear anyone of this caliber for a while.
Those high notes were unique, almost manufactured. It seems like she had discovered a vocal register than no one else had ever found. She always said those notes felt like they were coming out of her head. Callas's highest notes were more a part of her voice, and especially in her fat days, she had easier access to them. Volume-wise, I think they were even bigger, or at least that's how they sound when she blasts everyone else off the stage in the 1951 Aida in Mexico, where she drowns out even the orchestra and the chorus. What we can be sure of is that we are not going to see the likes of these ladies in our lifetimes.
***** Sutherland always said that the highest notes resonated as if they were actually coming out of the back of her head. She once talked about doing a recording, and after hitting one of those high notes, a chorister behind her said, "When you hit those notes, it sounds like you're singing backwards." The sound suddenly projected back toward the chorus behind her rather than forward. It really was a freak and unique register. She almost always had to prep for the note, as if she had to push a button to make it pop out. In her heavier prime, Callas's high notes were more tied to the rest of her voice and came more easily and were more of an extension of her upper register than an extra, unique register. She could sing the note fortissimo, and she could sing the note piano, as critics reported. And even as late as 1957, she could do an exquisite diminuendo from fortissimo to pianissimo on the high E-flat, which was unique in the history of the gramophone. Overall, I don't think there has been anyone to rival these two great ladies in their prime. Sutherland's technical feats were incredible, and she was more dramatic than people tend to give her credit for. Callas's musical genius was unique, and her technical mastery was no less polished than Sutherland's, and it was often so completely molded into the musical and artistic fabric of what she did, one didn't even realized that she just pulled off a near impossible technical feat. If only we had anyone comparable to these ladies on stage today!!
"Maria callas is somewhere below scotto" ha! You must be someone who CAN'T SING themselves or just totally ignorant...do you know vocal pedagogy... can you sight read and sing at the same time... can you even sing at all??? Maria callas had a louder and fuller high e flat and high e natural as proven all over youtube... beautiful notes don't equal best singer sorry to tell u... and a hell of a lot more ppl would given there foot to see maria Callas in the 70s and 80s If she were still alive and performing then ...shoot... I would still kill for a chance to hear her live ....this is why ALL sopranos are compared to her...not joan... maria callas will always be considered the best soprano of all time! Whether you like her or not. ..Get over it!
dasingaman1 luckily your opinion is not the world's. don't freak out just because many of dame joan's fans disagree with you. you are not judge and jury or an authority. yes, i sight read music and i can even sing opera, can you?
Liu Cheang yes I do... I'm a professional singer and have been for about 11 years now....secondly i would advise you to take your own advice when it comes to hearing other people's opinion... everytime someone says something nice about Maria callas you have to respond with a comparison to joan sutherland... opinions are like assholes...everyone has one! Unfortunately that even means people with bad musical taste ;-) not trying to be offensive...just keeping it real!
dasingaman1 there are a lot of people who think joan is the one to look up to. maria might be more famous due to her personal life and well as her stage. but no one can say she has a better agility, trill or more beautiful voice than joan.
As you seem to like Klemperer,I thought you might like an anecdote He always had his own cabin(naturally) when travelling around Europe by train.One evening his secretary came into his compartment and saw that his cigarette had caught alight to the score he was reading.He was absent minded..She grabbed his water glass and threw the water over the burning score. This did not help It contained the secret vodka that Klemperer drank. One arm/hand was quite badly burned. Motto Never keep secrets
@Ariadne7710 Hallstein was indeed an excellent soprano. She would be hailed as a superstar were she alive today. I wish her voice maintained the same quality over registers a bit more. Still, her work is wonderful.
why not put in dame joan's ah non giunge e flats from her first studio recording and the live one from carnegie hall. they send chills down my spine titanic in size.
@@misanthropelife Nadine Sierra,Anna Netrebko, Caballe,Mirella Freni ,Katia Ricciarelli (da giovane) ecc...ecc....Mariella Devia ecc...C'è ne sono MOLTO MEGLIO DI LEI...Abbi fede
Re- Christie Heatherton's comment: "What unbelievable hubris and ignorance, coupled in one sentence. Tradition had ALREADY had numerous sopranos singing those stratospheric high notes, for over 100 years. Dame Joan merely respected and upheld that tradition. Far better than many, imho. Just curious- are you a soprano with a truncated top? Just saying'..."
Ella, fue mucho mas que agudos y sobre agudos, su timbre fue único, la agilidad era sobrehumana, los tres registros eran iguales de bellos, sin diferencia. Canto por mas de 40 años, todo un récord, ella fue la primera de el siglo XX, que saco a la luz Operas, y arias, casi desconocidas, del Bel Canto. Y lo mas hermoso nunca perdió su sencillez y humildad. Así son las grandes.
Sutherland's voice was equal throughout the registers, so her high E-flats were as powerful as her middle voice. Most other singers get very thin and shrill at the top. Edita Grubworm is a case in point. Let's stop all the silliness. Callas and Sutherland were the ne plus ultra of this repertoire. All the others, including the disgraceful Beverly Sills, are Mini-Mice.
I was in the audience at that 1972 Lucrezia Borgia debut performance. What an experience! I was also at her very first Norma performance in 1963.
Hi John, I was 12 in 1963 & so you must be older than me or maybe the same age. If you are younger than 12 I am very jealous lol. Take care my friend Arnold Bourbon Amaral.
Joan Sutherland, a voice as big as Australia, the most incredible high notes I have heard, what an artist.
Robert Howes She's so amazing!!
+Robert Howes God did it on purpose when He made her. I am sure.
I heard he live twice. She was fantastic. Something that surprised me was that recordings really never captured how sumptuous her high notes were. They had an amazing power.
That's right, I was always disappointed in the sound Decca captured. Her greater risk-taking live was more exciting than her carefully controlled studio work.
5:17 is one of the most thrilling, breathtaking moments in the whole of Music.
I never sang with Dame Joan (I was in high school when she retired) but I have sung with singers who sang with her. They echo your sentiments about her....kind, humble, easy to work with and almost unaware of the superhuman powers that she possessed.
Yes even after a gruelling night onstage she would stop for all her fans, chat and sign programs or libretti. She always smiled and called us "dear" and we adored her, some people having queued all night for tickets.
Have had the privilege of hearing Ms Sutherland sing multiple times. Certainly one of the top singers of the 20th century. But what many people don't realize is that she was a fantastic comedian. Got to see her in Fledermaus in San Francisco and she brought the house down.
Thank you so much for this compilation...it reminds me of just how unbelievable Joan Sutherland was and how much I love her and how much we will miss her. There just isn't anyone that even approaches her....on any level.
I saw Joan many times in Sydney and Melbourne, even in her later career when the roles were probably transposed down, and never have I seen anything as exciting as when Richard would whip the orchestra and chorus to the finale, look up at Joan, the universe would stop (you can hear it on all these recordings), Joan would lean back on one leg and the high note would fill the theatre and you would weep and your hair would stand on end and your skin would prickle hot and cold!
Robert Woodley. What a lovely description of a unique partnership!
How fortunate you were my friend. I was 9 year's old in 1960.And I was born & raised in South Western USA. But I can deeply appreciate That the top three Divas of the golden era were great in different decades & they tend to overlap to the previous artist after their prime. CALLAS reign supreme in the late forties and early fifties. Sutherland own the sixties. Caballe late sixties on the 70s. Each great diva at their. own time. Callas will always reign supreme. That's really not debatable. Sad to say now we have no one like those three great Divas. Leontyne price will always be the exception because of her unique exceptional voice so much color the greatest voice to come out of America. The only Soprano I would go see today is Hernandez. Take care of my friend. Sincerely Arnold Bourbon Amaral 69 years young & holding
Exactly!!!My experience in 1985 London Lucias was the same… great partnering, orchestra and chorus unleashed and Joan gorgeously, warmly levels above everyone!!!!
@@arnoldamaral7406 So the point of this comment was to post about Callas. Her supremacy is very debatable, your personal beliefs notwithstanding.
Absolutely fantastic voice. Even though I'm a huge Mari Callas fan, I can not in good conscience not give Joan Sutherland the praise she deserves. Such magnificent performance, liquid-like vocals.
Дама их народа с голасами Марии Каллас и Мансерат Кабалье❤❤❤
Joan will be remembered forever as one of the greatest soprano's of all era's. My goodness we miss her when compared to today's modern "stars" of opera
What an amazing voice.
Magnificent. Once in a generation.
Beyond the best!
Get the shivers! Pure greatness!
This wonderful upload brings back such incredibly happy memories of hundreds of 'Opera Sundays' my partner and I enjoyed from 40 years ago onwards!! We would listen to our respective Gal's singing their hearts out all day interjected with lots of gasps!, "wow's!", and shouts of BRAVA! . We still recall those Sundays with great joy!! I can only add more gasps and "wow's" and shouts of Brava to this wonderful upload and a Bravo to you CaptBattleaxe for this great upload!!
Epic. Great post. Thank you.
Una grndissiima!
What a great video
Amazing queen♡
Her voice was so huge in the theatre that it seemed to be coming from all around you and enveloping you rather than from the stage. She was also a delightful person. After one Sonnambula performance, I waited at the Met stage door, with at least a couple of hundred others at first, to catch a glimpse of her. It was January and an exceedingly cold night for New York. After more than half an hour of waiting there were only three of us left. Suddenly the stage door opened and someone came out and said "MFiss Sutherland wonders if you would have tea with her." I think all three of us thought we had died and gone to opera heaven. For the next 45 minutes we were able to sit and talk with her and Richard, ask questions about performing [the other two were voice students] and sit in awe of how down to earth our diva was.
HOLY MOSES what a voice!
She was much more than her high notes.
fantastico comentario...............ella era mucho mas que sus grandes notas..............era y es una mujer super excepcional.......................de todos los tiempos..........pues esa garra...a la hora de cantar....era .....imponente.y extrema........algo unico en una cantante de opera....y de musica moderna...o contemporanea..................ella daba la locura en el canto hasta dejarnos estremecidos ..................y con el corazon en un puño.....................algo inaudito en cualquier otra cantante.................
Yes, Dame Joan is truly one of the greats, thought never my favourite. This compilation is
absolutely brilliant, because there's everything I like about her: The fabulous E-flats!!!!
Thank's for uploading this.
a great video, I just tried out how much I could join and it worked. Thank you for teaching me the high E.... wonderful
Quel talent hors du commun !
Extraordinary vocal chords and sublime skill in their use. Superb singing.
Que de merveilles !
The E-flat is superb! Thanks for directing me to it.
The late Dame Joan Sutherland was arguably one of the greatest Lucias and an amazing Soprano. 👏
Am sure La Stupenda as she was affectionately called is now singing with the angels in the hereafter. ❤
Very amusing story, thank you. Klemperer was indeed one of the giants of conducting. I was lucky enough to hear many of his concerts (and attend several rehearsals) with the Philharmonia in 1958/59 while studying at the Royal Academy of Music. His Beethoven cycle was amazing, plus also together with Claudio Arrau performing all 5 of the piano concertos. And his recording of Fidelio with Christa Ludwig is still the gold standard of that opera.
5:17 is the best e flat on this list.
I agree. In many of her performances (live and studio) I've often thought her Ebs were on the verge of being out of control. This has always been my favorite...dead on solid. And kudos to John Alexander as Pollione. He was always just great!
dame joan sang an even better E flat in her live norma from 1963. i forget if alexander is the pollione in that production. "in mia man" is the duet with the E flat.
Absolutely crystal clear and right on the nose in terms of pitch, the tenor before her is pretty impressive as well!
I totally agree with you, Dame Joan had no rivals. La Stupenda.
shes the greatest ,divine perfection there,will never be some one like,her.you got god taste,her lucia and traviatas superb.
It's hard to chose top 10 for Sutherland's high notes, all of them are breathtaking, even at her decline her high notes were still better than many soprani high notes in their prime!
I know what you mean but for me it is so hollow no expression in it a high note nothing more Sorry
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Never diminished in size or breadth at the very top of her range.
She had the Eflat to die for. Yes DIVA
That final recording, you can really hear how powerful her voice was to be able to sustain those notes over the din of the orchestra. These skills are dying out now, mark my words there won't be another Sutherland in our lifetime or this civilisation.
The greatest diva who ever lived.
Wow!
exactly none could compare sent from heaven thats a fact wow wow wow i heard her as a child on the radio and my father loved her . he always said noone can compare with Joan he was right
I heard her very first perfomances of Norma, Lucrezia Borgia, Merry Widow and Roi de Lahore, as well as 3 Lucias and a concert with Bel Raggio, Hamlet Mad Scene and The Soldier Tir'd. The recordings don't do full justice to her sound in a big opera house. I remember particularly how in the Lucia sextet with 5 other soloists, chorus and orchestra her voice soared above them all. There will never be another even close to her for technical perfection.and astonishing high notes!
No one mentions her trills, the amazing!
John Mitchell, I heard her live a number of times and completely concur. Especially wonderful, of those I heard (not Norma or Lucia, alas) was Esclarmonde. Her voice was not down there, or up there, on the stage it was with you in the house surrounding you in a way I never heard from another singer. Even Nilsson's laser pointer.;)
@@bbailey7818 So interesting! Thank you for writing that!
Interesting! Thank you for writing that!
Wow, I had no idea she sang the role so extensively.
Of the ten, the first Eb is rather labored, I'm afraid. I heard her a number of times and her sound in the house was astonishing. It enveloped and surrounded you. And when you were there the "diction" issue never bothered one at all.
WORD!!! my friend
@petelovesbevsills No problem. I'm glad you enjoyed it. :D
the 1st one was not the best, at the end.....
the 2nd one was pretty good
the 3rd one was exquisite
4th was amazing
She was and is top of tops, thanks "Dame Stupenda" for your voice and music! Sutherland for ever and ever! :-D
The falling out is for effect. Perfect for a mad scene!
@Ariadne7710 That is good to hear - she deserves it. A lovely singer.
WHAT AN AMAZING VOICE!!!! SHE IS BEST VOICE IN THE WORLD 😱❤
The title La Stupenda fits her to a tee. She can destroy the world with her voice and I won't care.
Fun. O! our beloved lady. La stupenda amatissima.
5:16 amazing bell-like high E!!! WOW.
J'entends des merveilles !
How does she do it??? It was hearing some of these pieces on a CD that just stopped me in my tracks and turned me onto opera. Thanks for posting.
Waow at 2:50 !
4:58 MIRACLE
You HAD to experience Ms.Sutherland on stage before you say dumb things(like she screamed or distortion and manipulation)I'm sure those were made by people who can't read music and have no idea of what they're listening to.
I seem to mainly listen to Dame Joan’s recordings these days because no other soprano compares ; nice and easy for me.Having to
settle on other divas singing Aida,Butterfly,Mimi and Tosca only makes me wish Joan had been able to record the roles.Too late now.
BRAVA DAME JOAN
@KathrynARyder Your assessment is indeed accurate. The nice E-flat I linked to above was from 2000. The "E-flats" I heard from a 2009 Lucia were painfully below pitch. Alackaday that Netrebko's technique is not as good as that of Callas or Sutherland.
For the love of God can I watch just one fucking video without seeing people shittalk a colleague? Callas, Sutherland, Nilsson, Price, Tebaldi, Freni, Caballe, Mattila & the like - they all love and respect each other's art without trying to compare one another...why can't we?
I feel the same way my friend. When the posts is about a particular artist comment about the ARTIST! Not someone else. No one asked for you to compare but to appreciate that one artist & what they're capable of doing. End of discussion. Then they start arguing like a high school debate team. Like my daughter would say some people LOL. Take care my friend. Arnold Bourbon Amaral
@@arnoldamaral7406 This only happens on Sutherland clips and it's usually by bitter Callas fans. That tells you all you need to know.
OMG.........!
@CaptFitzbattleaxe I get goosebumps at your description alone but, not to be catty, it should have been the other way around: "Only Dame Joan could compete with La Divinia… -- no one." ;-) I don't understand half of what she's saying but, my goodness, the voice is, well, awesome in the true sense of the word.
@CaptFitzbattleaxe Hallstein is still very much alive today and still involved with singing competitions (as a judge) and giving master classes. She did not become a world household name because she sang mainly in Germany, Austria and other continental European countries and didn't indulge in PR promotions because she was not too keen on travelling etc.She is more a musician's musician rather than popular superstar!! In Germany and Austria though, she is regarded as a mega coloratura superstar.
Greatest Calourtura divine
assolutamente unica: per leggerezza. piacevolezza e padronanza della voce sempre.
arrivava in altezza soavemente lì dove 'altri miti' non potevano cimentarsi.
ESTA VOZ ES INCONFUNDIBLEMENTE UNICA Y POTENTEMENTE UNICA...............NADIE HA CANTADI ASI EN LA HISTORIA DEL CANTO Y DE LA MUSICA
No es cierto! Un amigo mio se agarro los huevos con el cierre del pantalon una vez.... Ese dia, Sutherland no le llegó ni a los talones!
LO SIENTO POR SUS HUEVOS................PERO ES ESE DOLOR..................EL SUYO........Y NO TIENE QUE VER CON EL CANTO GRANDIOSO DE UNA GRAN CANTANTE..............SINO DE LA TORPEZA DE TU AMIGO AL SUBIRSE LA CREMALLERA.....Y PARA VACILAR................TE VAS A LA CALLE Y DICES ESTUPIDECES CON TUS AMIGOS.......Y PERDONAME CHE.....................
Uff The Sonnambula E flat gave me goosebumps, it was the combination with the choir sound in the background and how long she held it for.
Amazing
Are there recordings from it....????
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Goddess !!!
Sutherland took an enormous E flat in her first studio's Pollione/Norma duet and in a live 1963 performance.
Search RUclips for those Eb6 by using the following words...
Joan Sutherland - Norma - Bellini - Duo Norma/Pollione (live Vancouver 1963)
She held those Eb6 forever!
Peter Anastos --
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for reminding folks!
They give Callas farrrrrrrrrrrr more credit than she deserves!
Dame Joan Sutherland HAD NO EQUAL -- she was "STUPENDOUS"!!!!!!
See my earlier comments for others close to her equal -- Callas is NOT one of them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She sang an Eb6 at the end of the duet with Pollione from 1963 to 1967, but dropped it thereafter.
@KathrynARyder Check out the G6 sang by Ingeborg Hallstein in the Lakme bell song and also her A6 from Il Bacio. Her Proch variations are also fabuloous and so is her "Caro Nome". The most thrilling and melodic high notes you could wish for. And her recording of Seraglio is amazing too. She may not be the household name that Sutherland was because she sang mostly in Germany and continental Europe but she was a great favourite of Otto Klemperer's and I wouldn't discount his opinion.
The Borgia was amaaaaaaaaaaazzzzziiiiinnnnnggggggg! OMG
COMO ESTA JAMAS ALGUNA OTRA..................JIJIJIJIJIJIJIJIJIJIJIJIJI
She sang Norma more than Callas, actually, but only because her career lasted longer. JS sang Norma from 1963 to 1989 (!).
Battleaxe, your point exactly is what? Yul Brynner gave more performances in THE KING AND I than Gertrude Lawrence BECAUSE SHE DIED 18 months into the original Broadway Run. Joan Sutherland was only 3 years younger than Maria Callas so the Callas career should have continued if she took better care of her voice, mind and heart. She was not as disciplined as Joan Sutherland to record her iconic roles of Lady Macbeth, Anna Belen’s or better recordings of La Sonnambula, Medea or La Traviata. So many wasted opportunities while Joan Sutherland had in balance a better life and career. And I saw her last 3 Norma’s in Detroit: They were great!!!
I'm not sure Sutherland took an Eb6 in any of her Normas. Do you mean the D6 in the trio?
Just a question from an amateur....who was great in her day, or since, at hitting that note and transitioning? I'm not trying to be a jerk, she's amazing....just want to know if there has been someone else....I listen to opera all the time on here, and I haven't heard notes like that, even from the few Callas videos...
+Soren Aleksander No one since has been able to produce a sound quite like this....certainly not with the size of voice she possessed. Even in a large house like the Met, it was, like Nilsson's voice simply riveting. I doubt we will hear anyone of this caliber for a while.
Those high notes were unique, almost manufactured. It seems like she had discovered a vocal register than no one else had ever found. She always said those notes felt like they were coming out of her head. Callas's highest notes were more a part of her voice, and especially in her fat days, she had easier access to them. Volume-wise, I think they were even bigger, or at least that's how they sound when she blasts everyone else off the stage in the 1951 Aida in Mexico, where she drowns out even the orchestra and the chorus. What we can be sure of is that we are not going to see the likes of these ladies in our lifetimes.
***** Sutherland always said that the highest notes resonated as if they were actually coming out of the back of her head. She once talked about doing a recording, and after hitting one of those high notes, a chorister behind her said, "When you hit those notes, it sounds like you're singing backwards." The sound suddenly projected back toward the chorus behind her rather than forward. It really was a freak and unique register. She almost always had to prep for the note, as if she had to push a button to make it pop out. In her heavier prime, Callas's high notes were more tied to the rest of her voice and came more easily and were more of an extension of her upper register than an extra, unique register. She could sing the note fortissimo, and she could sing the note piano, as critics reported. And even as late as 1957, she could do an exquisite diminuendo from fortissimo to pianissimo on the high E-flat, which was unique in the history of the gramophone. Overall, I don't think there has been anyone to rival these two great ladies in their prime. Sutherland's technical feats were incredible, and she was more dramatic than people tend to give her credit for. Callas's musical genius was unique, and her technical mastery was no less polished than Sutherland's, and it was often so completely molded into the musical and artistic fabric of what she did, one didn't even realized that she just pulled off a near impossible technical feat. If only we had anyone comparable to these ladies on stage today!!
Dame Edda Moser is also awesome!
the best e flat of all time is this(type the next line in the search on utube.
"total rarity!! joan sutherland - norma"
"Maria callas is somewhere below scotto" ha! You must be someone who CAN'T SING themselves or just totally ignorant...do you know vocal pedagogy... can you sight read and sing at the same time... can you even sing at all??? Maria callas had a louder and fuller high e flat and high e natural as proven all over youtube... beautiful notes don't equal best singer sorry to tell u... and a hell of a lot more ppl would given there foot to see maria Callas in the 70s and 80s If she were still alive and performing then ...shoot... I would still kill for a chance to hear her live ....this is why ALL sopranos are compared to her...not joan... maria callas will always be considered the best soprano of all time! Whether you like her or not. ..Get over it!
dasingaman1 luckily your opinion is not the world's. don't freak out just because many of dame joan's fans disagree with you. you are not judge and jury or an authority. yes, i sight read music and i can even sing opera, can you?
Liu Cheang yes I do... I'm a professional singer and have been for about 11 years now....secondly i would advise you to take your own advice when it comes to hearing other people's opinion... everytime someone says something nice about Maria callas you have to respond with a comparison to joan sutherland... opinions are like assholes...everyone has one! Unfortunately that even means people with bad musical taste ;-) not trying to be offensive...just keeping it real!
dasingaman1 there are a lot of people who think joan is the one to look up to. maria might be more famous due to her personal life and well as her stage. but no one can say she has a better agility, trill or more beautiful voice than joan.
As you seem to like Klemperer,I thought you might like an anecdote
He always had his own cabin(naturally) when travelling around Europe by train.One evening his secretary came into his compartment and saw that his cigarette had caught alight to the score he was reading.He was absent minded..She grabbed his water glass and threw the water over the burning score.
This did not help
It contained the secret vodka that Klemperer drank.
One arm/hand was quite badly burned.
Motto Never keep secrets
Sutherland and Sills, The best.
@Ariadne7710 Hallstein was indeed an excellent soprano. She would be hailed as a superstar were she alive today. I wish her voice maintained the same quality over registers a bit more. Still, her work is wonderful.
OMG! My ears are bleeding! What screaming!!
@mariebasoli At times yes (Cf. watch?v=xpaEXAHBT_Y), but this video is about Dame Joan, not Netrebko. :D
This is the sound I want to hear when I die.
Out of context this is just like listening to someone do vocal tricks. Do you ever listen to complete opera performances?
why not put in dame joan's ah non giunge e flats from her first studio recording and the live one from carnegie hall. they send chills down my spine titanic in size.
Ci sono cantanti MIGLIORI DI LEI ....MAI vista questa grande cantante......
Which singers are better than her?
@@misanthropelife Nadine Sierra,Anna Netrebko, Caballe,Mirella Freni ,Katia Ricciarelli (da giovane) ecc...ecc....Mariella Devia ecc...C'è ne sono MOLTO MEGLIO DI LEI...Abbi fede
And to think that netrebko was promoted as first as the new, and the better, sutherland...
Re- Christie Heatherton's comment: "What unbelievable hubris and ignorance, coupled in one sentence. Tradition had ALREADY had numerous sopranos singing those stratospheric high notes, for over 100 years. Dame Joan merely respected and upheld that tradition. Far better than many, imho. Just curious- are you a soprano with a truncated top? Just saying'..."
Ella, fue mucho mas que agudos y sobre agudos, su timbre fue único, la agilidad era sobrehumana, los tres registros eran iguales de bellos, sin diferencia. Canto por mas de 40 años, todo un récord, ella fue la primera de el siglo XX, que saco a la luz Operas, y arias, casi desconocidas, del Bel Canto. Y lo mas hermoso nunca perdió su sencillez y humildad. Así son las grandes.
@KathrynARyder I like the way you think, Im just like you I think Thanks
Sutherland's voice was equal throughout the registers, so her high E-flats were as powerful as her middle voice. Most other singers get very thin and shrill at the top. Edita Grubworm is a case in point. Let's stop all the silliness. Callas and Sutherland were the ne plus ultra of this repertoire. All the others, including the disgraceful Beverly Sills, are Mini-Mice.
I apologise for getting your name wrong!! CaptFitzbattleaxe!! the grey cells cave in sometimes;-)!
Callas is uniq....Callas teach them all....Callas is La Divina.
DIVINA REGINA 👑 VIVA LA CALLAS PER SEMP !!! Arnold Bourbon Amaral
agreed completely, it's an E natural, not E flat however.
Одна из лучших в мире.
Joan is #1, maria down somewhere below renata scotto.
LaStupenda -- means just one thing -- "stupendous"; exhilarating; without rival!