 | Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor / Sutherland · Pavarotti · Milnes · Ghiaurov · ROH Covent Garden · Bonynge by Richard Bonynge
Buy new: $45.99 / Used from: $24.98 La Stupenda's absolute best recording. Amazing high notes (including a perfect E natural) and warp speed coloratura. Supported by an amazing cast.
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 | Bellini: I Puritani
Buy new: $88.99 / Used from: $42.99 Another one of Joan's crowning achievements. Wonderful cast and Bellinian perfection from Sutherland and Pavarotti. The high price is worth it!
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 | Verdi - La Traviata / Sutherland, Pavarotti, Manuguerra, NPO, Bonynge by Giuseppe Verdi
Buy new: $33.98 / Used from: $17.99 Joan's 52 years hardly show in this suprisingly dramatic recording.
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 | Verdi - Rigoletto / Sutherland, Pavarotti, Milnes, LSO, Bonynge by Giuseppe Verdi
Buy new: $30.49 / Used from: $9.90 Milnes really ownes this recording, but it is also one of Joan's best. The perfect Rigoletto.
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 | Puccini - Turandot / Sutherland · Pavarotti · Caballé · Ghiaurov · Krause · Pears · LPO · Mehta
Buy new: $30.49 / Used from: $16.99 Although she never performed the role, her interpretation is near perfect. An all star cast in a Turandot Puccini would be proud of.
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 | Rossini: Semiramide
Buy new: $66.99 / Used from: $13.95 Sutherland and Horne can not be surpassed. Duets and arias from both women are once in a lifetime.
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 | Bellini - Norma / Sutherland · Horne · J. Alexander · R. Cross · LSO · Bonynge by Vincenzo Bellini
Buy used from: $299.99 Here come Sutherland and Horne again. Unsurpassed duets and arias from both. One of Joan's most noted interpretations.
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 | Donizetti - La Fille du Régiment / Sutherland, Pavarotti, Malas, Sinclair, ROH Covent Garden, Bonynge by Gaetano Donizetti
Buy new: $30.49 / Used from: $19.00 A delightful interpretation of one of Joan's most celebrated interpretations. Pavarotti's high C's are unrivaled.
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 | Donizetti - L'elisir d'amore / Sutherland · Pavarotti · Cossa · Malas · Casula · ECO · Bonynge by Gaetano Donizetti
Buy used from: $10.99 Some of Joan's best coloratura ever in her final aria. Wonderful high notes. She characterizes the young Adina very accurately. The best L'Elisir.
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 | Mozart - Don Giovanni / Wächter · Sutherland · Alva · Frick · Schwarzkopf · Taddei · Cappuccilli · Sciutti · Giulini by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Buy used from: $40.00 Considered by many to be the best recording of the greatest opera. And we get to hear Joan in 1959 when she was just beginning her legendary prime.
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 | Handel - Alcina ~ Arias from Giulio Cesare / Sutherland, Berganza, Freni, Sinclair, Horne, Bonynge
Buy used from: $33.99 Here Sutherland shows her supreme skill in interpreting Handel's operas. This recording is unsurpassed.
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 | Bellini: Beatrice di Tenda
Buy new: $50.98 / Used from: $29.50 Another extremely taxing role. I can't think of any other soprano who could sing it the way Joan did.
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 | Delibes: Lakmé / Bonynge, Opéra de Monte-Carlo by Léo Delibes
Buy new: $23.98 / Used from: $8.98 Beautifully sung Bell Song and Flower Duet. Possibly the last word as far as this opera.
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 | Bellini - La Sonnambula / Sutherland · Pavarotti · Ghiaurov · NPO · Bonynge by Vincenzo Bellini
Buy new: $33.98 / Used from: $18.38 Despite her 53 years, Joan delivers colortura as if she were 35 again. One will almost feel windblown after listening to "Ah, non giunge".
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 | Meyerbeer - Les Huguenots / Sutherland, Arroyo, Tourangeau, Vrenios, Ghiuselev, Bacquier, NPO, Bonynge by Giacomo Meyerbeer
Buy new: $67.98 / Used from: $43.76 Joan's final role on the operatic stage and a role she sang for 30 years. Fabulous coloratura.
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 | Massenet: Esclarmonde
Buy new: $28.98 / Used from: $15.95 Considered by many to be the most taxing role in the entire soprano repertoire, Joan handles the dramatic coloratura with ease.
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 | Donizetti - Lucrezia Borgia / Sutherland, NPO, Bonynge
Buy new: $61.97 / Used from: $28.90 A fabulous Lucrezia with a wonderful supporting cast.
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 | Donizetti - Maria Stuarda / Sutherland, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Bonynge
Buy used from: $29.62 One of Joan's more dramatic interpretations of Bel Canto. Her confrontation with Tourangeau is hair-raising.
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 | Faust / Sutherland, Corelli, Ghiaurov; Bonynge by Charles Gounod
Buy used from: $34.98 Possibly a little off stylistically, but perfectly sung and quite dramatic.
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 | Offenbach - The Tales of Hoffmann / Domingo, Sutherland, Bacquier, Bonynge
Buy used from: $19.99 The last word as far as Hoffmann recordings. Each of the four soprano roles calls for a different voice, yet Joan handles them all perfectly.
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 | Verdi: Il Trovatore
Buy new: $33.98 / Used from: $10.34 Joan is wonderful here. She ornaments and embellishes Verdi like no one else, making the opera much more dramatic. Also one of Pavarotti's best recordings.
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 | Donizetti: Anna Bolena / Sutherland, Ramey, Mentzer, Bonynge by Gaetano Donizetti
Buy used from: $23.95 One of Joan's last recordings. At 61, her high D's can still put those of singers 30 years younger than her to shame.
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 | Handel: Rodelinda (Complete Opera) by Handel
Buy used from: $19.99 More proof that Sutherland was one of the supreme Handel singers of her day.
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 | Thomas: Hamlet by Joan Sutherland
Buy used from: $98.95 One of her rarest recordings. Riveting Mad scene. Again, at 56, she delivers coloratura as if it were 1965.
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 | Massenet: Le Roi de Lahore
Buy used from: $68.99 A fabulous interpretation of an extremely rare Massenet opera. A gorgeous 4th act aria.
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