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The Voice of The Century | Decca 4782542

The Voice of The Century

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Label: Decca

Cat No: 4782542

Barcode: 0028947825425

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Release Date: 14th October 2010

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Contents

Works

Gounod
Faust / Act 3 - O Dieu! que de bijoux...Ah! je ris de me voir

Gounod
Roméo et Juliette / Act 1 - Ah, je veux vivre

Lehar
Eva / Act 1 - War es auch nichts als ein Traum

Donizetti
La fille du régiment / Act 2 - Pour ce contrat fatal...Salut à la France

Donizetti
L’elisir d’amore / Act 1 - Chiedi all’aura lusinghiera

Donizetti
Lucia di Lammermoor / Act 1. - Ancor non giunse...Perchè non ho dei vento...Torna, torna, o caro oggetto

Donizetti
Lucrezia Borgia - original version - Act 2 - Era desso il figlio mio

Donizetti
Maria Stuarda - original version - Act 2 - Da tutti abbandonata

Donizetti
Oh, giusto cielo!...Il dolce suono

Donizetti
Ohimè! sorge il tremendo fantasma...Ardon gl’incensi

Donizetti
Spargi d’amore pianto

Bizet
Vasco da Gama - La Marguerite a fermé sa corolle...Ouvre ton coeur

Puccini
Turandot / Act 2 - In questa reggia

Rossini
Semiramide / Act 1 - Bel raggio lusinghier

Rossini
Semiramide / Act 1 - Dolce pensiero

Verdi
E strano! - "Ah, fors’è lui" - "Sempre libera"

Verdi
Luisa Miller / Act 2 - Che! e segnar questo mano...Tu puniscimi, o Signore?

Verdi
Rigoletto / Act 1 - E il sol dell’anima

Verdi
Rigoletto / Act 1 - Scena ed Aria. "Gualtier Maldè" - "Caro nome"

Offenbach
Les Contes d’Hoffmann / Act 2 - Les oiseaux dans la charmille

Strauss
Nuns’ Chorus

Massenet
Le Cid / Act 3 - De cet affreux combat...Pleurez, mes yeux

Delibes
Lakmé / Act 2 - Où va la jeune Indoue (Bell song)

Coward
Pacific 1860 - musical show (1946) - This is a changing world

Heuberger
Der Opernball - Im chambre separée

Bellini
Eccomi pronta...Deh, se un’urna

Bellini
I Puritani / Act 2 - O rendetemi la speme...Qui la voce...Vien, diletto

Bellini
La Sonnambula / Act 2 - Ah! non giunge uman pensiero

Bellini
Norma / Act 1 - Sediziose voci...Casta Diva

Artists

Joan Sutherland (soprano)

Works

Gounod
Faust / Act 3 - O Dieu! que de bijoux...Ah! je ris de me voir

Gounod
Roméo et Juliette / Act 1 - Ah, je veux vivre

Lehar
Eva / Act 1 - War es auch nichts als ein Traum

Donizetti
La fille du régiment / Act 2 - Pour ce contrat fatal...Salut à la France

Donizetti
L’elisir d’amore / Act 1 - Chiedi all’aura lusinghiera

Donizetti
Lucia di Lammermoor / Act 1. - Ancor non giunse...Perchè non ho dei vento...Torna, torna, o caro oggetto

Donizetti
Lucrezia Borgia - original version - Act 2 - Era desso il figlio mio

Donizetti
Maria Stuarda - original version - Act 2 - Da tutti abbandonata

Donizetti
Oh, giusto cielo!...Il dolce suono

Donizetti
Ohimè! sorge il tremendo fantasma...Ardon gl’incensi

Donizetti
Spargi d’amore pianto

Bizet
Vasco da Gama - La Marguerite a fermé sa corolle...Ouvre ton coeur

Puccini
Turandot / Act 2 - In questa reggia

Rossini
Semiramide / Act 1 - Bel raggio lusinghier

Rossini
Semiramide / Act 1 - Dolce pensiero

Verdi
E strano! - "Ah, fors’è lui" - "Sempre libera"

Verdi
Luisa Miller / Act 2 - Che! e segnar questo mano...Tu puniscimi, o Signore?

Verdi
Rigoletto / Act 1 - E il sol dell’anima

Verdi
Rigoletto / Act 1 - Scena ed Aria. "Gualtier Maldè" - "Caro nome"

Offenbach
Les Contes d’Hoffmann / Act 2 - Les oiseaux dans la charmille

Strauss
Nuns’ Chorus

Massenet
Le Cid / Act 3 - De cet affreux combat...Pleurez, mes yeux

Delibes
Lakmé / Act 2 - Où va la jeune Indoue (Bell song)

Coward
Pacific 1860 - musical show (1946) - This is a changing world

Heuberger
Der Opernball - Im chambre separée

Bellini
Eccomi pronta...Deh, se un’urna

Bellini
I Puritani / Act 2 - O rendetemi la speme...Qui la voce...Vien, diletto

Bellini
La Sonnambula / Act 2 - Ah! non giunge uman pensiero

Bellini
Norma / Act 1 - Sediziose voci...Casta Diva

Artists

Joan Sutherland (soprano)

About

These two discs of truly outstanding singing from the soprano known as 'La Stupenda' offer a celebration of Dame Joan Sutherland, who sadly passed away in October 2010.

With this 2CD set, Decca pays tribute to a living legend of opera and recording - as well as representing Joan Sutherland's greatest operatic stage roles, the tracklisting also includes rarely heard arias and songs from her many recital albums, and duets with her frequent recording partner Luciano Pavarotti.

Joan Sutherland's association with Decca covered a period of nearly thirty years. Her first complete Decca opera recording was Lucia di Lammermoor in 1962, and the last was Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur, recorded in 1988. Her many recital discs include the acclaimed collection 'The Art Of The Prima Donna' and definitive recordings of French and Italian arias as well as collections of popular songs and favourites from operetta.

Born in Australia in 1926, Joan Sutherland travelled to London to become a member of the Royal Opera at Covent Garden where she sang for several years (from 1952); in 1959 the director Franco Zeffirelli staged a new production of Donizetti's then rarely-performed Lucia di Lammermoor with Joan Sutherland in the title role. The first night was among the most sensational operatic events London has ever seen and Joan Sutherland became an international star overnight. Through the following decades she sang frequently in all the great opera houses of the World, including La Scala, Milan. where she was named 'La Stupenda'.

Encouraged by her husband and mentor, the conductor Richard Bonynge, Joan Sutherland focussed much of her career on the operas of Bellini and Donizetti. Her unparalleled technical accomplishment was even more remarkable given the formidable size and range of her voice, and it was the combination of astonishing agility and sheer vocal power which made her such a uniquely thrilling singer.

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