STUPENDOUS applause - just as STUPENDOUS as her performance was!! My friend was in the audience that night and said people were tearing up their programs ....just like confetti!! Such a magnificent singer, magnificent performance. And how it is unlikely we will ever be so blessed to hear her caliber ever again!!! RIP, Dame Joan!!
I love her comment above! I met her 3 times in my life - and each time was magical - but the last was truly special and emblematic of her great sense of self-deprecation. It was in 1986 for the first performance of Daughter of the Regiment for the Pittsburgh Opera. I had made a poster for the event, and I wanted her to sign it... So I approached her explaining that I saw her so many times at the Met - including the first 13 of her 27 performances of Norma at the Met. She was so funny - and said: Did I really sing that many?? Ricky do you recall this?? She then added "you must have been my youngest fan!" Both she and Richard Bonynge signed the poster ... I still have it framed! RIP, Dame Joan - La Stupenda - and spectacular beyond words!!
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I will never even BEGIN TO IMAGINE what Sutherland MUST HAVE FELT being utterly DROWNED IN ADORATION by that audience!! What on earth do you do through 10 MINUTES OF DELIRIOUS WORSHIP aimed RIGHT at you?!? And to have been IN that audience that night! Oh my God....most of their hands an throats were very most likely seriously sprained for weeks afterward!! LISTEN TO THEM!! I would've been reduced to a rushing river of grateful, indescribably overwhelming tears of gratitude & happiness.
I was in just the same place when Joan came home to Australia in 1965 and I'd saved paper-round money in order to buy a single ticket to the opening night. I was 16 then, and been just captivated by her voice since her first EP of just the Mad Scene from Lucia ... 5 years beforehand, when I was 11 ... And at that first night, I was literally "a rushing river of grateful, indescribably overwhelming tears of gratitude & happiness" yes, that's EXACTLY how I was! I'm 70 now and that voice is still as potent to my core as ever. It has been a lifelong companion. And just last month, I was able to speak with Richard Bonynge and I tried to encapsulate gratitude for all the pleasure that he and his wife had created ... an impossible task of course, but he was charming as he took my hand and hugged me ...
Leontyne Price debut in Il Trovatoreat the old Met had an ovation that lasted 45 minutes in Jan 1961. When she retired from opera as Aida her farewell ovation when on for at least 20 minutes.
The audience was in the presence of something extraordinary and they felt it. This sort of thing changes the course of the world; and not just the world of opera.
According to the annuals of Opera, she would have gotten far more than that. But the orchestra was striking, and the crew had to close the curtains for fear of more strikes. Read that Tucker was most happy for Sutherland's monumental ovations!
@@theon9575 Miss Sutherland made her New York debut in 1960 singing a concert performance of "Beatrice di Tenda" the day after had mother had died in London. Sutherland's Met debut was in late 1961.
@@LC-ig2jm Yes Tucker was supportive in her American debut here in 1961 and then they did it in her Chicago debut with Tucker also, and I was there, I recall her in Chicago with Tucker and then another show she did with Bergonzi, both great, but with powerful Tucker in his prime years then, their two strong voices, up top blended to fill the room with a really great sound.
@@shicoff1398 ....did her voice get bigger with time? Or just more rich. She sounds very brilliant here....but I think this was before her sinus operation.
I was fortunate enough to see you her do Lucia on at least 3 occasions - and her in several other roles too. And I met her in person once - she was delightful and generous with her time. RIP dear “Our Joan” From Sydney , Australia 🇦🇺
We saw Joan's Lucia 1959/60 in London (Covent Garden) - and it was an incredible experience. We never heard such a brillant voice before. (Andrea Bocelli said: "Pardon my bad English" - and so do I)
I heard her do 3 performances in Vancouver in 1967 - one of the great memories of my life. Sadly - I've heard many singers in recent seasons of the Met broadcasts doing leading roles who would have been lucky to be singing comprimario parts in the 50's and 60's. Fortunately - things improved this past season.
i would've been loudly sobbing hysterical tears of gratitude and happiness listening to the response of the audience and taking lots of curtain calls and my ears would've been ringing.
Wow. This was breathtaking to listen to, especially having just come home from a performance of Lucia that, shall we say, pales vastly in comparison. Oh to be present on such a historic evening! I can only imagine the fever pitch of the audience and just to see Dame Joan taking it all in on the stage. What a moment it must've been for her. Stupendous indeed.
"Joan Sutherland Receives Met Debut Ovation Lasting 10+ Minutes" The Mad Scene from her Metropolitan Opera debut as Lucia di Lammermoor. The audience is reduced to delirium.
Pity the super divas, Callas and Sutherland were around at the same time. They have (will they?) never been equalled, let alone surpassed. I think this even trumps Maria's great rendering. Again I have tears. Silvio Varviso was the lucky conductor then. I even listened to the full applause.
Delroy Roberts Joan ascended while Callas was leaving the stages due her personal life... The news after Joan performed in Milan was 'The uncrowned queen of la Scala, the title once was Maria Callas'.
Need a pick me up? Applauses at 11:15 -13:17 and then at 17:00 until the end (if you like "Brava!"). Also, I mean, Ms. Sutherland is PHENOMENAL in all the other bits, of course!
Anna Moffo was acting like a fan-girl when she heard Sutherland in rehearsal. She said Sutherland was the finest coloratura she heard in her life. She said, the "real thing".
@@annettefallon1652 Roberta Peters, who had sung coloratura roles at the Met since 1950, was asked in an interview "Whose voice was the greatest you ever heard?" and Peters responded "Joan Sutherland"
Randall Evans: Imagine the horror of hearing Lily Pons when Joan Sutherland was available!! Roberta Peters was a very successful and skilled but of a didn’t cut than Sutherland. Moffo who has just one of the most beautiful and feminine voices never had the technical skill of Sutherland or interpretive of Callas. It’s sad that her voice lost it’s support and fell apart.
She sang it again in her Chicago debut not long after this one, also in 1961 and also with Richard Tucker who was excellent with her, and she has said so and they remained friends ever since till he died in 1975, I saw that Chicago performance and still have her signature, two nights later she repeated it with Bergonzi and I still have their signature's on my program when I went back stage after the opera, at Chicago Lyric opera.
Friends of mine used to have a shop in London next to the hairdressing salon where Joan Sutherland used to have her hair done. One day the owner of the salon came into my friends' shop roaring with laughter. Apparently La Stup[enda had been very quietly singing or humming an aria from under the drier. Evidently there had been quite a bit of tut tutting from other ladies ninth one of them could stand it no more and shouted out loud " Do we have to put up with this dreadful noice?"
In fairness, it was also Franco Corelli's debut and his ovations accounted for half of that elapsed time. They each deserved every second of applause that they received!
Don’t get me wrong, Julie Andrews was certainly a terrific singer with a pretty voice (that she lost through poor technique that resulted in nodes); HOWEVER, Joan Sutherland’s mastering of the voice was on a completely different level. The sheer size of her voice, the beyond exceptional coloratura, and the beautifully rounded sound of her voice cannot be considered on the same level to Julie Andrew’s. Joan’s was a different animal. Only a handful of singers can be considered her equals.
@@devoncohen1039 I completely agree with everything you said, except one thing: Dame Joan has never been equalled. Callas was great for other reasons, as were Caballe, Verrett and Sills, but none of them had vocal chords like Sutherland's or could produce the most brilliant, beautiful and technically perfect sounds one could expect to ever hear as she did. This recording is astounding, but my favorite period of her career was from 1968-75, when the voice darkened and became more dramatic and less birdlike. Her Normas in '70 and Semiramides in '71 (I think) with Horne are still the most astounding vocal accomplishments in recorded history, IMO.
Arnold Amaral: TH-cam has moral standards otherwise I would ask what your grandmother did to get applause. When she danced the didn’t yell, “Put the clothes back on!” I know that Ethel Merman sang a song titled “Katie went to Haiti” in a Cole Porter show about a women got along well with the natives and ‘practically all Haiti loved Haiti’. Was your grandmother’s name “Katie”?
STUPENDOUS applause - just as STUPENDOUS as her performance was!! My friend was in the audience that night and said people were tearing up their programs ....just like confetti!! Such a magnificent singer, magnificent performance. And how it is unlikely we will ever be so blessed to hear her caliber ever again!!! RIP, Dame Joan!!
I love her comment above!
I met her 3 times in my life - and each time was magical - but the last was truly special and emblematic of her great sense of self-deprecation.
It was in 1986 for the first performance of Daughter of the Regiment for the Pittsburgh Opera.
I had made a poster for the event, and I wanted her to sign it...
So I approached her explaining that I saw her so many times at the Met - including the first 13 of her 27 performances of Norma at the Met.
She was so funny - and said: Did I really sing that many?? Ricky do you recall this??
She then added "you must have been my youngest fan!"
Both she and Richard Bonynge signed the poster ... I still have it framed!
RIP, Dame Joan - La Stupenda - and spectacular beyond words!!
I will never even BEGIN TO IMAGINE what Sutherland MUST HAVE FELT being utterly DROWNED IN ADORATION by that audience!! What on earth do you do through 10 MINUTES OF DELIRIOUS WORSHIP aimed RIGHT at you?!? And to have been IN that audience that night! Oh my God....most of their hands an throats were very most likely seriously sprained for weeks afterward!! LISTEN TO THEM!! I would've been reduced to a rushing river of grateful, indescribably overwhelming tears of gratitude & happiness.
Google User Get over it. Pulls yourself toeghter MAN!!👦👮👂 It's just LA STUPENDA in her prime!!! 🌏🌍🌏🙏🌹. Arnold Bourbon Amaral. LOL HELP ME!!$
She had even bigger ovations at La Scala, Convent Garden, and Naples.
I was in just the same place when Joan came home to Australia in 1965 and I'd saved paper-round money in order to buy a single ticket to the opening night. I was 16 then, and been just captivated by her voice since her first EP of just the Mad Scene from Lucia ... 5 years beforehand, when I was 11 ... And at that first night, I was literally "a rushing river of grateful, indescribably overwhelming tears of gratitude & happiness" yes, that's EXACTLY how I was!
I'm 70 now and that voice is still as potent to my core as ever. It has been a lifelong companion. And just last month, I was able to speak with Richard Bonynge and I tried to encapsulate gratitude for all the pleasure that he and his wife had created ... an impossible task of course, but he was charming as he took my hand and hugged me ...
God given talent.
Hard, hard, hard work.
Total dedication.
Self sacrifice.
She totally earned every moment.
Rest, dear Lady and thank you.............
Nilsson,Sutherland, Tebaldi,Callas,Caballe got ovations like this.Great singers does not exist today.
You forgot Price ?
Dame Joan, Maria Callas, Monserat Caballe, 3 greatest soprano's of all times!!
And also the unvergateble Renate Tebaldi and Theresa Bergansa!
Today from this caliber there arn't!
@@victordunson719 He sure did!
Leontyne Price debut in Il Trovatoreat the old Met had an ovation that lasted 45 minutes in Jan 1961. When she retired from opera as Aida her farewell ovation when on for at least 20 minutes.
I too met Joan a few times back stage at The Met. She and her Husband RIchard and a nice manager Mr. Martin. I miss her greatly
No one gets ovations like Joan and deservedly so...La Stupenda indeed!!!
The incomparable Joan Sutherland. Truly one of a kind.
The audience was in the presence of something extraordinary and they felt it. This sort of thing changes the course of the world; and not just the world of opera.
When “Il dolce suono” and “Spargi d’amaro pianto” are sung that perfectly, you better receive a 10 min ovation.
According to the annuals of Opera, she would have gotten far more than that. But the orchestra was striking, and the crew had to close the curtains for fear of more strikes.
Read that Tucker was most happy for Sutherland's monumental ovations!
She also made this debut at that time heavy with grief over the death of her mother who was also her first singing teacher.
@@theon9575 Miss Sutherland made her New York debut in 1960 singing a concert performance of "Beatrice di Tenda" the day after had mother had died in London. Sutherland's Met debut was in late 1961.
@@LC-ig2jm Yes Tucker was supportive in her American debut here in 1961 and then they did it in her Chicago debut with Tucker also, and I was there, I recall her in Chicago with Tucker and then another show she did with Bergonzi, both great, but with powerful Tucker in his prime years then, their two strong voices, up top blended to fill the room with a really great sound.
@@shicoff1398 ....did her voice get bigger with time? Or just more rich. She sounds very brilliant here....but I think this was before her sinus operation.
I was fortunate enough to see you her do Lucia on at least 3 occasions - and her in several other roles too. And I met her in person once - she was delightful and generous with her time.
RIP dear “Our Joan”
From Sydney , Australia 🇦🇺
We saw Joan's Lucia 1959/60 in London (Covent Garden) - and it was an incredible experience. We never heard such a brillant voice before.
(Andrea Bocelli said: "Pardon my bad English" - and so do I)
1961’s debuts at Met: Sutherland, Corelli, Leontyne Price 😨😨😨 OMG
The one and only Joan Sutherland.
I heard her do 3 performances in Vancouver in 1967 - one of the great memories of my life. Sadly - I've heard many singers in recent seasons of the Met broadcasts doing leading roles who would have been lucky to be singing comprimario parts in the 50's and 60's. Fortunately - things improved this past season.
La Stupenda barely begins to do justice to this glorious vocal phenomenon, Joan Sutherland...
i would've been loudly sobbing hysterical tears of gratitude and happiness listening to the response of the audience and taking lots of curtain calls and my ears would've been ringing.
Wow. This was breathtaking to listen to, especially having just come home from a performance of Lucia that, shall we say, pales vastly in comparison. Oh to be present on such a historic evening! I can only imagine the fever pitch of the audience and just to see Dame Joan taking it all in on the stage. What a moment it must've been for her. Stupendous indeed.
"Joan Sutherland Receives Met Debut Ovation Lasting 10+ Minutes"
The Mad Scene from her Metropolitan Opera debut as Lucia di Lammermoor. The audience is reduced to delirium.
Yes! More appropriate words than mine, lol
Fabulous trill as it is written and as it should be! And a huge, powerful drammatico-coloratura voice, no ... Pons here (although I love her too).
Pity the super divas, Callas and Sutherland were around at the same time. They have (will they?) never been equalled, let alone surpassed. I think this even trumps Maria's great rendering. Again I have tears. Silvio Varviso was the lucky conductor then. I even listened to the full applause.
Delroy Roberts Joan ascended while Callas was leaving the stages due her personal life... The news after Joan performed in Milan was 'The uncrowned queen of la Scala, the title once was Maria Callas'.
Wished you didn't use the word, trumps, lol. But I get the point.
Truly a magical moment to have preserved!
We heard her singing Lucia at least twice in Sydney, and her performances were outstanding.
Audience went mad after Joan's mad scene
Kai Yan they certainly did
can't blame the.
She s divine :)
Need a pick me up? Applauses at 11:15 -13:17 and then at 17:00 until the end (if you like "Brava!"). Also, I mean, Ms. Sutherland is PHENOMENAL in all the other bits, of course!
La Stupenda !!!
Imagine Lily Pons' horror still being at the Met when Joan Sutherland arrived!
Lol!
Anna Moffo was acting like a fan-girl when she heard Sutherland in rehearsal. She said Sutherland was the finest coloratura she heard in her life. She said, the "real thing".
Hahaha
Mean but good joke
@@annettefallon1652 Roberta Peters, who had sung coloratura roles at the Met since 1950, was asked in an interview "Whose voice was the greatest you ever heard?" and Peters responded "Joan Sutherland"
Randall Evans: Imagine the horror of hearing Lily Pons when Joan Sutherland was available!! Roberta Peters was a very successful and skilled but of a didn’t cut than Sutherland. Moffo who has just one of the most beautiful and feminine voices never had the technical skill of Sutherland or interpretive of Callas. It’s sad that her voice lost it’s support and fell apart.
How indescribably WONDOROUS!
Fabulous!
thank you so much for posting. late Rev. loved her and this opera! the lady had it all!
Stupendous!
Bravisima Joan Sutherland!!! Única!!!!
I was wearing my earphone, and I went deaf right after her High Eb at 11:13
HAHAHAHA Her high notes are so loud.
I was actually talking about the audience, insanely loud clapping
Oh, yes! HAHAHAHA I never saw something like this before...
The Dame of Opera!
la diosa......................
I think I am right in saying that she got twenty minute ovations when she first sang Lucia at Covent Garden.
Yes. There wasn't an orchestra strike!
@@ktrewin23what do you mean when you say orchestra strike?
Great artist
Her Edgardo was Tucker I believe......
Joan *Di Lammermoor*..... sublime!!
Magique !
la numero uno de todos los tiempos......................
Damn.....this is too wild.....😨
Please share the whole recording!!
How can I hear the complete recording?? My god!! That's amazing!!
Here :) th-cam.com/video/QnZvVO4N7C0/w-d-xo.html
She sang it again in her Chicago debut not long after this one, also in 1961 and also with Richard Tucker who was excellent with her, and she has said so and they remained friends ever since till he died in 1975, I saw that Chicago performance and still have her signature, two nights later she repeated it with Bergonzi and I still have their signature's on my program when I went back stage after the opera, at Chicago Lyric opera.
The complete 1961 Chicago with her and Tucker in Lucia is available and is perhaps on you tube, I know parts of it is.
Friends of mine used to have a shop in London next to the hairdressing salon where Joan Sutherland used to have her hair done. One day the owner of the salon came into my friends' shop roaring with laughter. Apparently La Stup[enda had been very quietly singing or humming an aria from under the drier. Evidently there had been quite a bit of tut tutting from other ladies ninth one of them could stand it no more and shouted out loud " Do we have to put up with this dreadful noice?"
Leontien Price got 45 minutes!!
In fairness, it was also Franco Corelli's debut and his ovations accounted for half of that elapsed time. They each deserved every second of applause that they received!
Julie Andrews also used to get 10 min ovations during her concert tours in Japan.
Shams So did my
Grand mother in Haiti
Don’t get me wrong, Julie Andrews was certainly a terrific singer with a pretty voice (that she lost through poor technique that resulted in nodes); HOWEVER, Joan Sutherland’s mastering of the voice was on a completely different level. The sheer size of her voice, the beyond exceptional coloratura, and the beautifully rounded sound of her voice cannot be considered on the same level to Julie Andrew’s. Joan’s was a different animal. Only a handful of singers can be considered her equals.
@@devoncohen1039 I completely agree with everything you said, except one thing: Dame Joan has never been equalled. Callas was great for other reasons, as were Caballe, Verrett and Sills, but none of them had vocal chords like Sutherland's or could produce the most brilliant, beautiful and technically perfect sounds one could expect to ever hear as she did. This recording is astounding, but my favorite period of her career was from 1968-75, when the voice darkened and became more dramatic and less birdlike. Her Normas in '70 and Semiramides in '71 (I think) with Horne are still the most astounding vocal accomplishments in recorded history, IMO.
Arnold Amaral: TH-cam has moral standards otherwise I would ask what your grandmother did to get applause. When she danced the didn’t yell, “Put the clothes back on!” I know that Ethel Merman sang a song titled “Katie went to Haiti” in a Cole Porter show about a women got along well with the natives and ‘practically all Haiti loved Haiti’. Was your grandmother’s name “Katie”?
Suth Pav: And the bastards at the Met canceled the 1980 SEMIRAMIDE! Send them money, He’ll no!!
This was in the old Met?
*Yes. It's from the Old Met. The 'New Met' was moved to Lincoln Center in 1966.*
Yes, the old Met. Richard, Sydney.
Is this a recording from the audience?
Probably. The another recording (Dec 9, 1961) which is radio broadcast, have a superior quality, BUT this is the debut and have the full applauses ♥
They must have been really glad it was over 😚