About

The complete opera recordings made by Joan Sutherland are offered as two volumes. The first, encompasses recordings from 1959 to 1970 includes an early example of her Mozart, singing Donna Anna in Don Giovanni (with Giulini, 1959), a ‘live’ Alcina recorded the same year with Fritz Wunderlich, the first of two recordings of Lucia di Lammermoor (Pritchard), as well as Faust, Norma, Semiramide, Lakmé and Les Huguenots (all conducted by Bonynge). No Sutherland offering would be complete without rarities, and this volume includes highlights from Graun’s Montezuma and Bononcini’s Griselda.

 

Contents and tracklist

Handel: Alcina

• Dame Joan Sutherland (Alcina), Fritz Wunderlich (Ruggiero), Norma Procter (Bradamante), Janette van Dijck (Morgana), Nicola Monti (Oronte), Thomas Hemsley (Melisso), Cappella Coloniensis (early music ensemble)
• Ferdinand Leitner
• Recorded: 1959

Handel: Acis and Galatea

• Peter Pears (Acis), Dame Joan Sutherland (Galatea), Owen Brannigan (Polyphemus), David Galliver (Damon), Philomusica of London, Saint Anthony Singers
• Sir Adrian Boult
• Recorded: 1959

Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527

• Dame Joan Sutherland (Donna Anna), Eberhard Wächter (Don Giovanni), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Donna Elvira), Giuseppe Taddei (Leporello), Luigi Alva (Don Ottavio), Graziella Sciutti (Zerlina), Piero Cappuccilli (Masetto), Gottlob Frick (Il Commendatore)
• Philharmonia Orchestra
• Carlo Maria Giulini
• Recorded: 1959

Verdi: Rigoletto

• Dame Joan Sutherland (Gilda), Cornell MacNeil (Rigoletto), Renato Cioni (Duca di Mantova), Stefania Malagù (Maddalena), Cesare Siepi (Sparafucile)
• Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
• Nino Sanzogno
• Recorded: 1961

Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor

• Dame Joan Sutherland (Lucia), Renato Cioni (Edgardo), Robert Merrill (Enrico), Cesare Siepi (Raimondo)
• Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
• Sir John Pritchard
• Recorded: 1961

Handel: Alcina

• Dame Joan Sutherland (Alcina), Teresa Berganza (Ruggiero), Monica Sinclair (Bradamante), Graziella Sciutti (Morgana), Luigi Alva (Oronte), Mirella Freni (Oberto), Ezio Flagello (Melisso)
• London Symphony Orchestra
• Richard Bonynge
• Recorded: 1962

Bellini: La Sonnambula

• Dame Joan Sutherland (Amina), Nicola Monti (Elvino), Fernando Corena (Rodolfo), Margreta Elkins (Teresa), Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (opera company)
• Recorded: 1962

Verdi: La Traviata

• Dame Joan Sutherland (Violetta), Carlo Bergonzi (tenor), Robert Merrill (baritone), Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (opera company)
• Sir John Pritchard
• Recorded: 1962

Bizet: Carmen

• Regina Resnik (Carmen), Mario del Monaco (Don José), Tom Krause (Escamillo), Dame Joan Sutherland (Micaëla)
• Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
• Thomas Schippers
• Recorded: 1963

Bellini: I Puritani

• Dame Joan Sutherland (Elvira), Pierre Duval (Arturo), Renato Capecchi (Sir Riccardo Forth), Ezio Flagello (Sir Giorgio), Margreta Elkins (Enrichetta di Francia), Piero de Palma (Sir Bruno Robertson), Giovanni Foiani (Lord Gualtiero Valton), Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (opera company)
• Richard Bonynge
• Recorded: 1963

Handel: Giulio Cesare – Arias and scenes

• Dame Joan Sutherland (Cleopatra), Margreta Elkins (Cesare), Marilyn Horne (Cornelia), Monica Sinclair (Tolomeo), Richard Conrad (Sesto)
• New Symphony Orchestra of London
• Richard Bonynge
• Recorded: 1963

Bellini: Norma

• Dame Joan Sutherland (Norma), Marilyn Horne (Adalgisa), John Alexander (Pollione), Richard Cross (Oroveso)
• London Symphony Orchestra
• Richard Bonynge
• Recorded: 1964

Rossini: Semiramide

• Dame Joan Sutherland (Semiramide), Marilyn Horne (Arsace), Joseph Rouleau (Assur), John Serge (Idreno)
• London Symphony Orchestra
• Richard Bonynge
• Recorded: 1964

Bellini: Beatrice di Tenda

• Dame Joan Sutherland (Beatrice), Josephine Veasey (Agnese), Luciano Pavarotti (Orombello), Cornelius Opthof (Filippo Maria Visconti), Joseph Ward (Anichino/Rizzardo)
• London Symphony Orchestra
• Richard Bonynge
• Recorded: 1965/66

Gounod: Faust

• Dame Joan Sutherland (Marguerite), Franco Corelli (Faust), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Méphistophélès), Robert Massard (Valentin), Margreta Elkins (Siébel), Monica Sinclair (Marthe)
• London Symphony Orchestra
• Richard Bonynge
• Recorded: 1966

Bononcini, G B: Griselda (highlights)

• Dame Joan Sutherland (Ernesto), Lauris Elms (Griselda), Monica Sinclair (Gualtiero), Margreta Elkins (Almirena), Spiro Malas (Rambaldo)
• London Philharmonic Orchestra
• Richard Bonynge
• Recorded: 1966

Graun, C H: Montezuma (excerpts)

• Dame Joan Sutherland (Eupaforice), Lauris Elms (Montezuma), Elizabeth Harwood (Erissena), Monica Sinclair (Fernando Cortez)
• London Philharmonic Orchestra
• Richard Bonynge
• Recorded: 1966

Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment

• Dame Joan Sutherland (Marie), Luciano Pavarotti (Tonio), Spiro Malas (Sulpice), Monica Sinclair (Marquise of Berkenfield), Edith Coates (Duchess of Crakentorp), Royal Opera House Covent Garden (opera company)
• Richard Bonynge
• Recorded: 1967

Delibes: Lakmé

• Dame Joan Sutherland (Lakmé), Alain Vanzo (Gerald), Gabriel Bacquier (Nilakantha), Jane Berbié (Mallika)
• L'Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo
• Richard Bonynge
• Recorded: 1967

Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527

• Dame Joan Sutherland (Donna Anna), Gabriel Bacquier (Don Giovanni), Donald Gramm (Il Commendatore), Pilar Lorengar (Donna Elvira), Werner Krenn (Don Ottavio), Marilyn Horne (Zerlina), Leonardo Monreale (Masetto)
• English Chamber Orchestra
• Richard Bonynge
• Recorded: 1969

Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots

• Dame Joan Sutherland (Marguerite de Valois), Martina Arroyo (Valentine), Huguette Tourangeau (mezzo-soprano), Anastasios Vrenios, Gabriel Bacquier (Compte de Saint-Bris)
• New Philharmonia Orchestra
• Richard Bonynge
• Recorded: 1970

Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore

• Dame Joan Sutherland (Adina), Luciano Pavarotti (Nemorino), Spiro Malas, Dominic Cossa
• English Chamber Orchestra
• Richard Bonynge
• Recorded: 1970