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Joan Sutherland

October 2023

  • Fireworks explode as the sails of the Sydney Opera House are illuminated

    Sydney Opera House at 50: the stories behind the superstitions, sleepovers and scene-stealing moments

    From Hugh Jackman’s black eye to ‘benevolent’ ghosts in the back seats, tour guides, security staff and stage managers guide us through five decades beneath the white sails

October 2017

  • Dame Joan Sutherland during rehearsals for a production of Bellini’s I Puritani, conducted by her husband Richard Bonynge, March 1964.

    From the Guardian archive
    Prima Donna from Point Piper: Joan Sutherland interview – archive, 1960

    10 October 1960 In spite of international success, there is still a good deal of the girl from Sydney about Joan Sutherland

May 2016

  • Joan Sutherland photographed as Lucia di Lammermoor at Covent Garden, London, the role which launched her international career.

    From the Guardian archive
    Joan Sutherland’s tour de force as Lucia: 'radiant, pure, and vivid'

    From the archive, 18 February 1959: Joan Sutherland gives an exceptional performance in Donizetti’s Lucia Di Lammermoor at Covent Garden

April 2015

  • Otto Klemperer

    Mozart: Die Zauberflöte CD review – a fascinating snapshot of Covent Garden in the 1960s

    This remastered 1962 Klemperer recording from the Royal Opera House reveals some first-night nerves, but also some very fine and authoritative singing

August 2011

  • Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor – review

    Gergiev's Lucia di Lammermoor may be the Mariinsky's first in two decades, but it's not a patch on the classics, writes Tim Ashely

February 2011

  • From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 18 February 1959: Lucia: a tour de force from Joan Sutherland

    Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 18 February 1959: Donizetti's "Lucia Di Lammermoor", came back last night to the stage where it was once the greatest of tests for the Melbas and Tetrazzinis, and where it had not been on show since Toti Dal Monte gave a single showing of the old war horse in 1925

January 2011

  • ROYAL 3Te Kanawa

    Tom Service on classical music
    Cardiff captures Kiri Te Kanawa

    The great New Zealander replaces Joan Sutherland as patron of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition

October 2010

  • Joan Sutherland

    Dame Joan Sutherland: an appreciation

  • In praise of ...
    In praise of … Richard Bonynge

  • Rigoletto - review

  • Joan Sutherland as Norma in 1982

    Dame Joan Sutherland obituary

  • Joan Sutherland, celebrated opera singer, dies aged 83

  • Joan Sutherland: the greatest soprano ever?

    Martin Kettle

January 2009

  • Bellini: La Sonnambula; Bartoli/Florez/D'Arcangelo/Zurich Opera/Orchestra la Scintilla/De Marchi

    There's little here to compete with the thrill of a great soprano such as Joan Sutherland

January 2007

  • In praise of ... the Royal Opera

    Leader: Though it is entirely right to see the Royal Opera's first 60 years primarily in artistic terms - the focus of an exhibition that the nonpareille Dame Joan Sutherland will open at Covent Garden this month - it is also important to understand that none of it would have been possible without enlightened national leadership.

December 2003

  • Flawed beauty returns to centre stage

    Dame Joan Sutherland, who made her Italian debut at opera house La Fenice, believes it is "the most beautiful theatre in the world".

May 2002

  • 'I didn't want to be a diva'

    Forty years as a soprano earned Joan Sutherland the name La Stupenda. She still finds it rather embarrassing, she tells Martin Kettle.

December 2001

  • When time stood still

    Bellini sung by Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti is a breathtaking combination, says Tim Ashley

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