Joan Sutherland

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Lifespan:
November 7, 1926 - October 10, 2010, she died aged 83 and was Australian.
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Birthname: Joan Alston Sutherland. Alternative names: Dame Joan Alston Sutherland.
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An Artist with 66 releases, and credited 6 times on others' music. 83 collaborations and 1 musical relative.

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Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, OM, AC, DBE (7 November 1926 - 10 October 2010) was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano noted for her contribution in the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s through to the 1980s. She died in Switzerland on 10th October 2010.

One of the most remarkable female opera singers of the 20th century, she was dubbed La Stupenda by a La Fenice audience in 1960 after a performance as Alcina. She possessed a voice of beauty and power, combining extraordinary agility, accurate intonation, "pin point staccatos a splendid trill and a tremendous upper register, although music critics often complained about the imprecision of her diction. Her friend Luciano Pavarotti once called Sutherland the "Voice of the Century", while Montserrat Caballé described the Australian's voice as being like "heaven". Her highest note was a high F sharp in altissimo.

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Joan Sutherland - Joan Sutherland as Haydn's Euridice, Vienna 1967

Joan Sutherland as Haydn's Euridice, Vienna 1967

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Discography

72 releases – 66 under her own name and 6 credits on others' music Edit
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RIP Opera Star Dame Joan Sutherland

Oct, 12 2010

One of the greatest opera stars of the 20th century, Joan Sutherland, has passed away in Switzerland at the age of 83. According to her family, she died peacefully on Sunday morning after suffering a long illness, in her home near Montreaux. Her daughter-in-law Helen told the Sydney Morning Herald "She's a very important person all over the world, but for us this is our family and we're just trying to come to terms with this." Sutherland was born to Scottish immigrant parents in Sydney in 1926. She was trained in singing by her mother and began performing in public at the age of 21. But it was her 1959 role singing Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" at Covent Garden that first alerted critics to her extraordinary talent. After performing in Venice the following year she was dubbed 'La Stupenda' ("The Stunning One"), a nickname that stuck her whole life. Sutherland sang in nearly 50 operas before health problems led her to retire in 1989, fittingly bowing out at Covent Garden, alongside Luciano Pavarotti, who declared hers "the greatest voice of the century." "She's totally unique and you will never ever hear another voice like that," Dame Kiri Te Kanawa told ABC Radio. "It's a sad, sad loss."

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