I heard her sing Lucia at the Met in 1965 and have never forgotten her incredible performance. How wonderful to hear her extraordinary voice explained so beautifully here. Thank you.
This wonderful woman was a true gift to the Universe. Her voice, her technique, her exquisite talent. There is not and never will be another Joan Sutherland.
I’m a pianist and lately concentrating on Chopin, who was much in debt to Bellini. To capture the Bel Canto style, I turned to Dame Joan and discovered your wonderfully instructive video. So well done. Thank you!
joan sutherland started as a mezzo then was told she was using her voice wrong and was in fact a soprano ...so when she started building up her upper register she was able to take her lower well developed voice into the higher notes creating the round warm sound
So, they thought she was a mezzo? ...You know, that makes her accomplishment all the more amazing! It is one thing to be a natural, and never have to relearn how to sing, and overcome bad habits that have unfortunately become muscle memory. It is another thing entirely to rebuild your technique from the ground up, and learn new muscle memory! Truly remarkable!
No one absolutely no one has ever come even close to Sutherland's technique... She was unique, the size of that voice, you have to have heard it live to see what an instrument hers was...l was very lucky to have heard her in about 50 performances, never to be forgotten.
Wow! How I envy you...Would you care to describe the experience? I've heard her voice was so magnificently big, that even when she sang pianissimo you could hear her as if you were standing right beside her...Hah, what I would give to hear her live in her prime.
Yes, bel canto is not just high, loud notes or fast scales. It's not even only beautiful singing. It is singing CORRECTLY and with emotion. Callas says it means how you sing, the proper way, that is, implementing a whole arsenal of technical skills by taking your voice and breaking it down into a thousand pieces. Thanks for the video. Sutherland certainly knew HOW to sing.
No, I think it means beautiful singing. It means singing lyrically, not technically. That's not emotion. Emotion doesn't create beautiful line. You have to have beautiful line, then, through it, you can express emotion and musicality. And ornaments are part of the line.
@@MrSkylark1 Lina Pagliughi has great diction and no excess of fioritura, I agree. But she sang without emotion, which is demonstrated by these ornaments, and with excess of portamenti instead legato. Is it bel canto? I don't think so. 😉😘
A marvellous collection of clips amply demonstrating the many sided accomplishments of a truly great singer who was able to command roles requiring many different types of voice and technique. we shan't see the likes of her again....
Magnificant voice with total control of her glorious instrument. Saw her at the Met. 1968, she had me in tears. A rare gem that we will not hear again for years or maybe ever on this earth. Thank you. just june lucchesi
The greatest singer of 20th century, I love so much her ... What a voice, it's a 'super'natural phenomen, it's unbelievable ... This video is one of the most, problably the most, complete video about her that I've watched ... Congratulations Vinicius, you're amazing ... Felicitações do Brasil ...
My favourite and most treasured of singers, She simply had a voice totally from another planet and time, Simply exquisite and mind blowing with such unbelievable range and tone, I will never hear another singer to come close to her in my lifetime, I love you Darling Joan and your music and voice lives in my heart and soul. May you rest in peace up there singing with the angels.
This was a STUPENDOUS video! I LOVED IT! What great examples of the greatest voice! I loved the way you described the different types of things a singer has to do in Bel Canto singing.....crescendo in different pitches, passagio, glissando, and many more! I especially liked the "messa di voce trill" and "fast flourishes" You really must have put a lot of work into this video! I especially liked that you used examples from "French Opera Gala" Really good job!
Linda ,sobresalió siempre por su esmerado trabajo reflejado en cada actuación.,nos dejó su legado maravilloso muchas gracias Descanse en paz queridísima señora (Los Ángeles Chile)
Her top range was just something marvellous. No second singer possessed a voice with this degree of volume, projection, size, brilliance, sharpness, yet smoothness, radiance and cutting quality. Joans C6-E6 around 1960 was simply unmatched. That slayed anything else down. Especially the norma 1964 E6flat. What a glorious, pristine, radiant and gigantic sound. What a phenomenon.
EL MANEJO DE SU CANTO ES MAGISTRAL...................EN TODOS LOS SENTIDOS.................Y LA INMENSIDAD DE SU VOZ................EN TODAS LAS ESCALAS..........ES EL PREMIO PARA LOS DE A PIE.......................UNA MARAVILLA........................
She sings with perfect technique that can only be achieved by years of practice. And as Pavarotti noted, beautiful tone involves what is called "covering." We can hear this throughout Sutherland's vocal range. Sutherland was proud of her "round sound." She said the sound "goes out of the back of the top of the head." Not literally of course, but this is what bel canto singing felt like when a perfect resonant chamber was formed in the throat and mouth. Beginners can start to learn covering simply by making a habit of taking silent breaths when singing. This will help the larynx lower into correct position for optimum resonance. The singer, usually with the help of a teacher, learns gradually to achieve a beautifully round, resonant tone on every vowel at every pitch. Done properly, the singer has a sense that the throat is open but that the voice is "covered" or contained. Acoustically this is analogous to a violin, which is a box that is mostly closed, but with f-holes designed to let out just the right amount of sound. It took Pavarotti seven years of study with the finest teachers to achieve the vocal technique for which he is known. Bel canto singing is not for the faint of heart!
Wow! There are no words! Tremendous innate vocal talent, plus years spent in a practice room to acquire such amazing singing technique! Wow! Thank you so much for posting this!!
Quelle formidable compilation! On peut ainsi apprécier avec plus de précision la merveilleuse technique de La Stupenda! Inoubliable et insurpassable Joan! Merci de votre leçon de spécialités lyriques! Pedro Miguel, Mar del Plata, Argentine
Listened to this and once again am blown away and astounded at the beauty of this amazing human instrument. Creamy clear rich acrobatic beauty in her movement I never saw her life but have many cd's and have watched on TV I go to a different place when I listen to Dame Joan. For me it is a touch of Heaven. God Bless and continue to rest in peace and one day we will sing in heaven.
LA UNICA GRAN CANTANTE Y VOZ DEL MUNDO Y DE TODOS LOS TIEMPOS..........................HA CANTADO COMO JAMAS HA CANTADO ALGUIEN.........................
I had the great fortune of seeing many opera legends while working at the Metropolitan, in the mid- to late-80's. I remember Ms Sutherland knitting away during rehearsals and always being a bit shy and very sweet. I saw her in a few productions...but was never a fan of her sound, being to muffled for my taste. BUT...this wonderful video displays her true artistry and phenomenal talents and gift. She spun and crafted her notes, creating both a glorious melodiousness and a powerfully emotional vibrancy. In much of this video I was surprised to hear such clarity in the lyrics. She was indeed "stupendous"!
@Nicole Ryan I've been around opera singers for over twenty years, and good diction is not always possible during certain passages, etc., but Ms. Sutherland garbled her lyrics even in the slower passages ans lower notes. I always understood that once she started working with Bonynge, her enunciation became muddled in order to achieve the coloratura, bel canto-style singing. I've listened to earlier recordings (pre-Bonynge), and found this theory to hold some ground.
@Nicole Ryan I did sing...but that's not the issue. Then why is it that no other opera singer - that I've ever heard - sang with such a muffled sound? She didn't sound that way earlier in her career...and she certainly had high notes then as well. To me, it sounded as though she was singing through a bag of wool. I get your point, certainly...but I just don't agree with it, totally.
Fascinating demo! I saw her in the theater quite a few times. First let me say there were other singers who had greater coloratura technique or more beautiful voices. Ok, now that we got that out of the way, Sutherland combined technique and beauty in a way I’ve never heard before or since. This big dark dramatic voice could seemingly move anywhere on the scale, and most remarkable of all, the higher it went, the more brilliant the sound became. She had her foibles too; I mean, I could never figure out WHAT language she was singing! But her voice really was the voice of the century.
*I agree even in the part about the language (I'm a huge fan, but I'm also honest), perhaps, when we know the libretto we can notice she sing all the words, not perfectly, but she does ;)*
Nah, so far no singer has ever had greater coloratura technique, I should know because I got to work closely with her. Well..........maybe Marilyn Horne, but they were such good friends and colleagues that they would want to find themselves in competition, besides the source of both of their technical skill sets was the same, Richard Bonynge who never gets enough credit.
Partially true regarding Bonynge. She learned breathing from her mother who had been taught by a pupil of Marchesi. In London her voice was polished off by Clive Carey a pupil of de Resque. Essentially it was one of the greatest natural voices ever.
Thank you for this marvelous video! Such a PERFECT defining of Bel Canto!!! And SOOOO MUCH NEEDED today!!!! Sadly, this great art has been all but lost! Even the well known singers of today who have tried to carry on this tradition (by doing the 3 Tudor Queens, or Norma, or Lucia, etc.) show that they do not truly understand Bel Canto singing! That art hasn't really been understood or done well since the days of Callas, Sutherland, Sills, Caballe, Horne and Verrett! This video should be MANDATORY for all singers who aspire to sing a Bel Canto repertoire! And in all honesty, as Richard Bonynge once said, a singer who can master Bel Canto can sing ANYTHING!
It would be wonderful if any singer in any vocal category could sing all of these technical skills. Opera singing has become just another part of the "pop" vocal scene due to the predilection of producers and directors to prefer actors to singers.
Thank you Vinicius...a showcase of Dame Joan's prodigious vocal gifts, and her mastery of an array of technical marvels. BTW.."unprovized" should be improvised. Cheers.
Отличный "технический паспорт" одной из совершеннейших вокалисток, когда-либо записанных. Любитель музыки, в отличие от любителя вокала, найдёт здесь не много; последний же получит бегло перелистываемый дайджест совершенств.
What a voice, me gusta el control de su respiración, eso ayuda a mantener una nota correctamente y el tiempo necesario..pero ella ya posee un don, una gran agilidad, coloratura y además una amplio registro que no se va a la exageración..
If you can get a Robin Follman CD you will be blown away. She's q dramatic soprano, and a spinto soprano. My favorite of her albums is "Dramatic Heroines"...
I love Joan with all my heart, she's my favourite singer but comparing her to Tetrazzini and presenting Terrazzini to be the worse singer? Definitely not. They both had amazing techniques, though completely different. Tetrazzini was one of the finest coloraturas ever and her technique was the true italian bel canto. Joan's was the more modern take on that classical bel canto. Tetrazzini had clear vowels and used a lot of chest voice, while Joan's voice was always a bit muffled (ok, not always, on her very early recordings, the vowels are crystal clear, I wonder why she changed that later...) and she usually took the low notes in head voice, using chest very rarely. The traditional italian bel canto requires chest voice! Also we must not forget that we cannot hear the true singing of Tetrazzini as her recordings are nowhere near as good of quality as Joan's. I think both ladies were amazing, and I love both (Joan more though) but I think we really shouldn't compare them and choose the "better" one.
I don't know why this comment, BUT, I believe that when we EXTRACT from a performance some EXCERPT of it and set aside the rest, you can use it for some GOOD or BAD PRETEXT. Even if this excerpt shows us an EMBARASSING moment in the singing of someone, this NECESSARILY DOESN'T MEAN his/her singing is BAD or EVEN the BEST of them all, what REALLY MATTERS is the WHOLE thing, this TRULLY will show us GREAT or BAD SINGING. Do you comprehend MY VIEW POINT? What happen is that videos like this is being created with the pretext of COMPETITION, to MANIPULATE the public opinion. And of course to share FREE HATE. On my video I DIDN'T NEED to compare Joan's voice with ANOTHER to praise HER SKILLS, I believe that what's GOOD don't need comparisons to be RECOGNIZED. The persons have the necessity to afirmate that a singer is good in DETRIMENT of others. They LACK the KNOWLEDGE to SUBSTANTIATE their opinions and uses "PREFERENCE IN (some singer)" to justify it. A lot of opnions complains about Joan's chest voice but she SANG since 1945 and she had a MEZZO VOICE. After 1960, that COINCIDED with her INTERNATIONAL FAME/CAREER, her voice changed and become as you difined 'muffled'. Those CHANGES HAPPEN, fortunately or unfortunately. She still being one of the few RENOWED SINGERS, even with poor diction and chest. And I ask: WHY??? Because WHAT MATTERS is the WHOLE THING!!! She lacks in one aspect and WON SUPERBLY in others. In my moments of anger I prepared a video that Joan STANDS OUT against Tetrazzini. B U T , I'M NOT LIKE THIS. My INTENTION and focus on TH-cam is only express my ADMIRATION on J O A N through her STUPENDOUS SINGING!!!
Um........Let's get our pitch names accurate in the context of the music in which they were written. At 3:55 Joan climbs from a C#6 to a D6. Also, your example at 5:25 is inaccurate - that is not straight tone. The singer is using vibrato, it's just very narrow.
elizabeth schwarzkoppf had the best portamento and another soprano who sang in the viennese tradition can't remember her name she was very swoopy though sometimes ..
Cooles Video, danke für die Zusammenstellung. Technisch war sie ein Phänomen, aber verstanden hat man kein Wort. Außerdem ist der Klang Geschmacksache, der Ton klang immer irgendwie dunkel belegt.
Dass hohe Stimmen im dramatischen Koloraturfach schwer zu verstehen sind, liegt wohl in der Natur der Sache. Diese Sängerin war ein Phänomen, weil sie alleine durch ihre stimmlichen Gestaltungen jeder von ihr gesungenen Partie, den Zuhörer in den Bann und zu Begeisterungsstürmen hinriss. Welche Sängerin heute verfügt über so eine immense stimmliche Bandbreite der Ausdrucksmittel? Da verzieh man sicher gern, dass sie sicher nicht die größte Schauspielerin war...
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I heard her sing Lucia at the Met in 1965 and have never forgotten her incredible performance. How wonderful to hear her extraordinary voice explained so beautifully here. Thank you.
This wonderful woman was a true gift to the Universe. Her voice, her technique, her exquisite talent. There is not and never will be another Joan Sutherland.
Wonderful LADY my friend 💇🙋🙆☺ Arnold Bourbon Amaral
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@@arnoldamaral7406 indeed indeed.
Her voice was the lyre of Orpheus that led me to opera.
La stupenda means literally "The stupendous"
sutherland has to have had the greatest trill ever heard
I’m a pianist and lately concentrating on Chopin, who was much in debt to Bellini. To capture the Bel Canto style, I turned to Dame Joan and discovered your wonderfully instructive video. So well done. Thank you!
joan sutherland started as a mezzo then was told she was using her voice wrong and was in fact a soprano ...so when she started building up her upper register she was able to take her lower well developed voice into the higher notes creating the round warm sound
So, they thought she was a mezzo? ...You know, that makes her accomplishment all the more amazing! It is one thing to be a natural, and never have to relearn how to sing, and overcome bad habits that have unfortunately become muscle memory. It is another thing entirely to rebuild your technique from the ground up, and learn new muscle memory! Truly remarkable!
She is one of my favorite soprano. She knows how to sing , not just technic, but more important is from heart. 💓💓💓💓
No one absolutely no one has ever come even close to Sutherland's technique... She was unique, the size of that voice, you have to have heard it live to see what an instrument hers was...l was very lucky to have heard her in about 50 performances, never to be forgotten.
Wow! How I envy you...Would you care to describe the experience? I've heard her voice was so magnificently big, that even when she sang pianissimo you could hear her as if you were standing right beside her...Hah, what I would give to hear her live in her prime.
Beverly Sills did in her prime.
Esej Snake sang with her and heard her in live from 1972 to her final performances. What can I say.
so true no one.....maybe cecilia bartoli has
@@nonenoneonenonenone don't compare a mouse to an elephant.the difference between Beverly & Joan was the size
Dame Joan's a bloody legend.
Yes, bel canto is not just high, loud notes or fast scales. It's not even only beautiful singing. It is singing CORRECTLY and with emotion. Callas says it means how you sing, the proper way, that is, implementing a whole arsenal of technical skills by taking your voice and breaking it down into a thousand pieces. Thanks for the video. Sutherland certainly knew HOW to sing.
Currently this meaning is lost, so many singers with lack of skills. Sutherland still being the most complete singer
But very poor diction due to false teeth. Lina Pagliughi sang beautifully without excess fioritura.
No, I think it means beautiful singing. It means singing lyrically, not technically. That's not emotion. Emotion doesn't create beautiful line. You have to have beautiful line, then, through it, you can express emotion and musicality. And ornaments are part of the line.
MrSkylark1 she did not have false teeth. Where did you get that from.
@@MrSkylark1 Lina Pagliughi has great diction and no excess of fioritura, I agree. But she sang without emotion, which is demonstrated by these ornaments, and with excess of portamenti instead legato. Is it bel canto? I don't think so. 😉😘
Amazing singing throughout. The pure art of bel canto, almost dead these days. La Stupenda shines in all her glory.
Juan Diego Flores?
She was the one and only.
No words to thank such a beautiful material of study from a nightingale as Joan , thanks sincerely
Superba,divina,meravigliosa!!!Una voce straordinaria,con virtuosismi ed acuti incredibili!!! Magnifica ❤
She had the best trills!
I love Sutherland.
A marvellous collection of clips amply demonstrating the many sided accomplishments of a truly great singer who was able to command roles requiring many different types of voice and technique. we shan't see the likes of her again....
Thank you, V. Soaris! This kind of instructive video is the best thing about TH-cam. Also works as a fine tribute to La Stupenda!
The transition from the Verdi Requiem crescendo into the Norma decrescendo is amazing and has made my whole day better. Thank you for this.
Magnificant voice with total control of her glorious instrument. Saw her at the Met. 1968, she had me in tears. A rare gem that we will not hear again for years or maybe ever on this earth. Thank you. just june lucchesi
Thank you !! This is the greatest way to give examples of the techniques, through Sutherland!
The greatest singer of 20th century, I love so much her ... What a voice, it's a 'super'natural phenomen, it's unbelievable ... This video is one of the most, problably the most, complete video about her that I've watched ... Congratulations Vinicius, you're amazing ... Felicitações do Brasil ...
My favourite and most treasured of singers, She simply had a voice totally from another planet and time, Simply exquisite and mind blowing with such unbelievable range and tone, I will never hear another singer to come close to her in my lifetime, I love you Darling Joan and your music and voice lives in my heart and soul. May you rest in peace up there singing with the angels.
This was a STUPENDOUS video!
I LOVED IT!
What great examples of the greatest voice!
I loved the way you described the different types of things a singer has to do in Bel Canto singing.....crescendo in different pitches, passagio, glissando, and many more! I especially liked the "messa di voce trill" and "fast flourishes" You really must have put a lot of work into this video!
I especially liked that you used examples from "French Opera Gala"
Really good job!
Ah Thanks George!!! I tried to give a brief but clear description ;) I love the 'messa di voce trill'
Linda ,sobresalió siempre por su esmerado trabajo reflejado en cada actuación.,nos dejó su legado maravilloso muchas gracias Descanse en paz queridísima señora (Los Ángeles Chile)
AMAZING VIDEO ... SUTHERLAND FOREVER
Her top range was just something marvellous. No second singer possessed a voice with this degree of volume, projection, size, brilliance, sharpness, yet smoothness, radiance and cutting quality. Joans C6-E6 around 1960 was simply unmatched. That slayed anything else down. Especially the norma 1964 E6flat. What a glorious, pristine, radiant and gigantic sound. What a phenomenon.
EL MANEJO DE SU CANTO ES MAGISTRAL...................EN TODOS LOS SENTIDOS.................Y LA INMENSIDAD DE SU VOZ................EN TODAS LAS ESCALAS..........ES EL PREMIO PARA LOS DE A PIE.......................UNA MARAVILLA........................
Smashing compilation, Vini, Complete example of her huge range and clarity.
Wonderful video. An absolute treat. I learnt so much. Much appreciated. Joan Sutherland's singing is just glorious.
And the nickname "La Stupenda" is not just well-deserved, it is an understatement.
Formidável trabalho sobre nossa amada Joan!! E é também um lindo tributo ao seu legado.
She sings with perfect technique that can only be achieved by years of practice. And as Pavarotti noted, beautiful tone involves what is called "covering." We can hear this throughout Sutherland's vocal range. Sutherland was proud of her "round sound." She said the sound "goes out of the back of the top of the head." Not literally of course, but this is what bel canto singing felt like when a perfect resonant chamber was formed in the throat and mouth.
Beginners can start to learn covering simply by making a habit of taking silent breaths when singing. This will help the larynx lower into correct position for optimum resonance. The singer, usually with the help of a teacher, learns gradually to achieve a beautifully round, resonant tone on every vowel at every pitch. Done properly, the singer has a sense that the throat is open but that the voice is "covered" or contained. Acoustically this is analogous to a violin, which is a box that is mostly closed, but with f-holes designed to let out just the right amount of sound.
It took Pavarotti seven years of study with the finest teachers to achieve the vocal technique for which he is known. Bel canto singing is not for the faint of heart!
Your comment is very accurate and well written :)
Wow! There are no words! Tremendous innate vocal talent, plus years spent in a practice room to acquire such amazing singing technique! Wow! Thank you so much for posting this!!
Gracias por subir a esta extraordinaria cantante es mi favorita!!!!!
Sutherland was a magnificent singer as this video clearly illustrates.
It's great to read your comment 65attila. Joan isn't 'La Stupenda' for nothing, this video is a drop of the ocean of Joan's voice.
Quelle formidable compilation! On peut ainsi apprécier avec plus de précision la merveilleuse technique de La Stupenda! Inoubliable et insurpassable Joan! Merci de votre leçon de spécialités lyriques!
Pedro Miguel, Mar del Plata, Argentine
La Divina Stupenda Joan Sutherland 💖
really well done! Bravo for all the great demonstrations!
La Stupenda= Perfeccion.
Listened to this and once again am blown away and astounded at the beauty of this amazing human instrument. Creamy clear rich acrobatic beauty in her movement I never saw her life but have many cd's and have watched on TV I go to a different place when I listen to Dame Joan. For me it is a touch of Heaven. God Bless and continue to rest in peace and one day we will sing in heaven.
Thank you for this educational video!
Magnífica, magnífica, magnífica!
SUTHERLAND = SOPRANO ASSOLUTA
(September 2020) ❤❤❤❤❤❤
LA UNICA GRAN CANTANTE Y VOZ DEL MUNDO Y DE TODOS LOS TIEMPOS..........................HA CANTADO COMO JAMAS HA CANTADO ALGUIEN.........................
Thank you for this wonderful video that is a true document of her abilities.
Lá stupenda! Magnífica!!
Opera is truly the Olympics of the human voice.
I had the great fortune of seeing many opera legends while working at the Metropolitan, in the mid- to late-80's. I remember Ms Sutherland knitting away during rehearsals and always being a bit shy and very sweet. I saw her in a few productions...but was never a fan of her sound, being to muffled for my taste. BUT...this wonderful video displays her true artistry and phenomenal talents and gift. She spun and crafted her notes, creating both a glorious melodiousness and a powerfully emotional vibrancy. In much of this video I was surprised to hear such clarity in the lyrics. She was indeed "stupendous"!
@Nicole Ryan I've been around opera singers for over twenty years, and good diction is not always possible during certain passages, etc., but Ms. Sutherland garbled her lyrics even in the slower passages ans lower notes. I always understood that once she started working with Bonynge, her enunciation became muddled in order to achieve the coloratura, bel canto-style singing. I've listened to earlier recordings (pre-Bonynge), and found this theory to hold some ground.
@Nicole Ryan I did sing...but that's not the issue. Then why is it that no other opera singer - that I've ever heard - sang with such a muffled sound? She didn't sound that way earlier in her career...and she certainly had high notes then as well. To me, it sounded as though she was singing through a bag of wool. I get your point, certainly...but I just don't agree with it, totally.
Thank you! Beautiful and ingenious 💗
Thanks for all the hard work in putting this together.
Ohne jeden Zweifel: Sie ist die Allzeit-Beste ihres Stimmfaches.
What a marvelous range!
Fascinating demo! I saw her in the theater quite a few times. First let me say there were other singers who had greater coloratura technique or more beautiful voices. Ok, now that we got that out of the way, Sutherland combined technique and beauty in a way I’ve never heard before or since. This big dark dramatic voice could seemingly move anywhere on the scale, and most remarkable of all, the higher it went, the more brilliant the sound became. She had her foibles too; I mean, I could never figure out WHAT language she was singing! But her voice really was the voice of the century.
*I agree even in the part about the language (I'm a huge fan, but I'm also honest), perhaps, when we know the libretto we can notice she sing all the words, not perfectly, but she does ;)*
Nah, so far no singer has ever had greater coloratura technique, I should know because I got to work closely with her. Well..........maybe Marilyn Horne, but they were such good friends and colleagues that they would want to find themselves in competition, besides the source of both of their technical skill sets was the same, Richard Bonynge who never gets enough credit.
Partially true regarding Bonynge. She learned breathing from her mother who had been taught by a pupil of Marchesi. In London her voice was polished off by Clive Carey a pupil of de Resque. Essentially it was one of the greatest natural voices ever.
Thank you for this video!
Wonderful work
Brilliant demo! Many thanks for the video.
Thank you Vini - South African opera fan.
Thank you for this marvelous video! Such a PERFECT defining of Bel Canto!!! And SOOOO MUCH NEEDED today!!!! Sadly, this great art has been all but lost! Even the well known singers of today who have tried to carry on this tradition (by doing the 3 Tudor Queens, or Norma, or Lucia, etc.) show that they do not truly understand Bel Canto singing! That art hasn't really been understood or done well since the days of Callas, Sutherland, Sills, Caballe, Horne and Verrett! This video should be MANDATORY for all singers who aspire to sing a Bel Canto repertoire! And in all honesty, as Richard Bonynge once said, a singer who can master Bel Canto can sing ANYTHING!
Carissimo Vinicius Soaris haz hecho un formidable trabajo!!!!! FELICITACIONES!!!!!
Thank you. Wonderful singing and fine texts! 💐
Lisbet Lund Thanks! Thanks! Thanks! \o/
Bravo! Thank you for the explanation. It is very instructive.
Maravilloso, insuperable!
e brilhante trabalho na demonstração dos termos!!!
lo mas alucinante de todos los tiempos...........................................la voz de joan sutherland.............................
Thank you so much for this video
un encanto de voz............................
Meravigliosa antologia del Belcanto.
We have a lot to learn with the greats.
Amazing! Really! Thanks so much for sharing ...
She was the whole package. Perfection across all aspects of operatic singing.
¡MARAVILLOSA! ¡EXTRAORDINARIA!
Really helpful, thanks
Spectacular!!!
It would be wonderful if any singer in any vocal category could sing all of these technical skills. Opera singing has become just another part of the "pop" vocal scene due to the predilection of producers and directors to prefer actors to singers.
La estupenda, grandiosa
Thank you Vinicius...a showcase of Dame Joan's prodigious vocal gifts, and her mastery of an array of technical marvels. BTW.."unprovized" should be improvised. Cheers.
Ohh thanks Hako. I had sure I couldn't trust 100% in my mind ;) Joan's vocal abilities always fascinated me
Отличный "технический паспорт" одной из совершеннейших вокалисток, когда-либо записанных. Любитель музыки, в отличие от любителя вокала, найдёт здесь не много; последний же получит бегло перелистываемый дайджест совершенств.
Melhor técnica!
thank you for sharing!!!!
o que mais me chama atenção é que mesmo tendo o Fá/F6, ela não precisou disso, segurando no seu extraordinário Mi/E6, ela conseguiu o mundo.
great video! thank you
i did a similar video a few years ago th-cam.com/video/gCiRdRjMg24/w-d-xo.html hope you enjoy it too.
Cristian Ha Amazing!!! And I commented two years ago haha
What a voice, me gusta el control de su respiración, eso ayuda a mantener una nota correctamente y el tiempo necesario..pero ella ya posee un don, una gran agilidad, coloratura y además una amplio registro que no se va a la exageración..
es lo que se llama el cuerno de la abundancia cantando a todas sus epocas.............................
Thank you. Thats so interesting! Joan Sutherland isn't bad as well. ;)
If you can get a Robin Follman CD you will be blown away. She's q dramatic soprano, and a spinto soprano. My favorite of her albums is "Dramatic Heroines"...
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I love Joan with all my heart, she's my favourite singer but comparing her to Tetrazzini and presenting Terrazzini to be the worse singer? Definitely not.
They both had amazing techniques, though completely different. Tetrazzini was one of the finest coloraturas ever and her technique was the true italian bel canto. Joan's was the more modern take on that classical bel canto. Tetrazzini had clear vowels and used a lot of chest voice, while Joan's voice was always a bit muffled (ok, not always, on her very early recordings, the vowels are crystal clear, I wonder why she changed that later...) and she usually took the low notes in head voice, using chest very rarely. The traditional italian bel canto requires chest voice!
Also we must not forget that we cannot hear the true singing of Tetrazzini as her recordings are nowhere near as good of quality as Joan's.
I think both ladies were amazing, and I love both (Joan more though) but I think we really shouldn't compare them and choose the "better" one.
I don't know why this comment, BUT, I believe that when we EXTRACT from a performance some EXCERPT of it and set aside the rest, you can use it for some GOOD or BAD PRETEXT. Even if this excerpt shows us an EMBARASSING moment in the singing of someone, this NECESSARILY DOESN'T MEAN his/her singing is BAD or EVEN the BEST of them all, what REALLY MATTERS is the WHOLE thing, this TRULLY will show us GREAT or BAD SINGING. Do you comprehend MY VIEW POINT? What happen is that videos like this is being created with the pretext of COMPETITION, to MANIPULATE the public opinion. And of course to share FREE HATE. On my video I DIDN'T NEED to compare Joan's voice with ANOTHER to praise HER SKILLS, I believe that what's GOOD don't need comparisons to be RECOGNIZED. The persons have the necessity to afirmate that a singer is good in DETRIMENT of others. They LACK the KNOWLEDGE to SUBSTANTIATE their opinions and uses "PREFERENCE IN (some singer)" to justify it. A lot of opnions complains about Joan's chest voice but she SANG since 1945 and she had a MEZZO VOICE. After 1960, that COINCIDED with her INTERNATIONAL FAME/CAREER, her voice changed and become as you difined 'muffled'. Those CHANGES HAPPEN, fortunately or unfortunately. She still being one of the few RENOWED SINGERS, even with poor diction and chest. And I ask: WHY??? Because WHAT MATTERS is the WHOLE THING!!! She lacks in one aspect and WON SUPERBLY in others. In my moments of anger I prepared a video that Joan STANDS OUT against Tetrazzini. B U T , I'M NOT LIKE THIS. My INTENTION and focus on TH-cam is only express my ADMIRATION on J O A N through her STUPENDOUS SINGING!!!
She can destroy the world with her voice and I will not care one bit.
DIVINO
Super
esto es una gran cantante..................esto es la unica gran cantante....................esto es la supremacia del arte canoro...................
Hi, can you also make something like this for Maria Callas?
*I would adore to do it!*
Vinicius Soaris looking forward :)
She was my ideal of pure vocal sound and remains so, not to deny many other voices.
Honey callas is shit comparated with la stupenda
Huawei Kawaii you’re the only shit here, ignorant
Quite simply the greatest voice to ever grace the Opera stage!
jamas ha habido un sonido asi cantando....................
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Did joan have a piannisimo?
Um........Let's get our pitch names accurate in the context of the music in which they were written. At 3:55 Joan climbs from a C#6 to a D6.
Also, your example at 5:25 is inaccurate - that is not straight tone. The singer is using vibrato, it's just very narrow.
non per niente era chiamata la stupenda
elizabeth schwarzkoppf had the best portamento and another soprano who sang in the viennese tradition can't remember her name she was very swoopy though sometimes ..
Cooles Video, danke für die Zusammenstellung. Technisch war sie ein Phänomen, aber verstanden hat man kein Wort. Außerdem ist der Klang Geschmacksache, der Ton klang immer irgendwie dunkel belegt.
Dass hohe Stimmen im dramatischen Koloraturfach schwer zu verstehen sind, liegt wohl in der Natur der Sache. Diese Sängerin war ein Phänomen, weil sie alleine durch ihre stimmlichen Gestaltungen jeder von ihr gesungenen Partie, den Zuhörer in den Bann und zu Begeisterungsstürmen hinriss. Welche Sängerin heute verfügt über so eine immense stimmliche Bandbreite der Ausdrucksmittel? Da verzieh man sicher gern, dass sie sicher nicht die größte Schauspielerin war...