16 Aug 2015

Dame Joan Sutherland (1926-2010)

From Appointment, 9:00 am on 16 August 2015

Dame Joan Sutherland Photo CC BY Allan Warren wiki CROP
Dame Joan Sutherland, 1975. Photo: CC BY 3.0 Allan Warren

“Whether producing mind boggling divisions, arpeggios, appogiaturas, pinpoint staccati, colossal high notes which lose no quality in delivery, or that unequalled trill, every arsenal of the coloratura is supremely at her command”

 - Opera Britannia

Roger Flury and Des Wilson talk about the life and career of the great Australian soprano, known around the world as ‘La Stupenda’.

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