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In Reply to: Being Australian, how do you feel about Joan Sutherland? posted by djprobed on November 29, 2002 at 07:03:04:
Umm Opera, Mozart yes, Haydn lately, some of Verdi and Giacomo R. but no not much. Handel and Gluck, Lully, Montiverdi, Rameau, Purcell, yumm yumm , YUM!Joan was a lovely person and had a lovely sound, I met her once when I was still a 'boy chorister', I had just sung a difficult solo and she was very sweet to me. More?
The Don Giovanni I have is the EMI one with a young clear Joan.
5 years. She should have stopped even earlier IMO. But that is not an uncommon view :-)}.
OTOH I cherish a simulcast she did, well into this time, of Die Flederamaus which was a delicious ripplingly funny riot. Mainly due to her and the other lass.
I particulary liked her singing early on, 'cos she didn't overuse vibrato in the standard works. I frankly think that Bel Canto was not a particularly good direction for her voice, but it did the Bonynges as a couple a lot of good.
Then again Vibrato was 'severely eschewed' in Anglican* Churches back then thanks to the RSCM. *aka Episcopalian. AND I find the plots and characters of most Bel Canto operas even less believable than those of of standard works whixh also suffer from this.
AND the music?! For elaborateness I prefer Baroque music and operas. Maybe I am just an old Protestant / Puritan.
Timbo
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