6CD - ADD
DECCA 2005
Includes work(s) by George Frideric Handel, Giovanni Paisiello, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, Georges Bizet, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Charles Gounod, Jules Massenet, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Jacques Offenbach, Delibes, Gabriel Faure, Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, Ambroise Thomas, Carl Maria von Weber, various composers.
Ensembles: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra, New Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Academy of Ancient Music.
Conductors: Richard Bonynge, F. Molinari-Pradelli, Sir Adrian Boult, Christopher Hogwood, Anthony Lewis.
Soloists: Dame Joan Sutherland, Carlo Bergonzi, Heather Begg.
6CDs presenting the art of this outstanding Decca artist from 1959 to 1985.
First time release on any format - 6 French Songs (with Richard Bonynge at the piano).
On CD for the first time - An extended scene from Bellini's Norma from a Gala performance at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
All the arias from the 1970 Romantic French Arias together for the first time.
During her long association with DECCA — one that lasted for over 30 years — Dame Joan Sutherland made over thirty recordings of different operas (and more than one version of some of these); she also made many recital discs and other recitals around a theme or programme.
Joan Sutherland's recordings — usually made with her husband, conductor/pianist Richard Bonynge - have sold in vast quantities. Since her sensational and meteoric rise to fame as a result of her performances in Lucia di Lammermoor in February 1959 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Joan Sutherland has been a household name and symbol of excellence — even today largely unchallenged — in coloratura singing.
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