Operatic Arias

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DONIZETTI / VERDI / HANDEL
Operatic Arias
Joan Sutherland (soprano) with various accompaniments

[ Regis Records / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 10 December 2010

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"An immense success, the first of many, and it remains an astonishing achievement."
(Bargain of the Month MusicWeb Feb 2011)

"Earlier this year (1959) we saw performances of Lucia di Lammermoor such as dreams are made on; now in December we listen again to this record, looking like idiots, marvelling, gasping and almost weeping.... The beauty of the voice, the astonishing technical accomplishment, the brilliance of the upper range, the tenderness and poignancy of the emotions.... In some respects indeed, the record is more cherishable than ever, because the mannerisms......... have hardly begun to take hold, and much of the best of the artist is here."
(Gramophone)

"An immense success, the first of many, and it remains an astonishing achievement."
(Bargain of the Month MusicWeb Feb 2011)

Her legendary 1959 debut operatic recital for Decca, released on a single CD for the first time.

Bonus tracks taken from the 1950s L'Oiseau Lyre Handel recording featuring the Philomusica London and Anthony Lewis.

Newly re-mastered.

Tracks:

Donizetti:
Ancor non giunse! ... Regnava nel silenzio…Quando rapito in estasi (from Lucia di Lammermoor)
Il dolce suono mi colpì di sua voce! … Spargi d'amaro pianto (from Lucia di Lammermoor)
Ah! tardai troppo...O luce di quest'anima (from Linda di Chamounix)

Verdi:
Surta è la notte...Ernani! Ernani, involami (from Ernani)
Mercè, dilette amiche 'Bolero' (from I Vespri Siciliani)

Bonus Tracks:
Two excerpts from Alcina