OPERA AUSTRALIA
• THE JOAN SUTHERLAND COLLECTION •
Act II
The Best of Joan Sutherland
LIVE FROM THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
OPERA AUSTRALIA
Act II
The Best of Joan Sutherland
Live from the Sydney Opera House
Lucia di Lammermoor
Lucrezia Borgia
by Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto by Salvatore Cammarano
by Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto by Felice Romani
Chi me frena in tal momento?
Sextet, Act II Scene II
Com’e bello!
Aria, Act I Scene I
Edgardo: Richard Greager
Enrico: Malcolm Donnelly
Lucia: Joan Sutherland
Raimondo: Clifford Grant
Alisa: Patricia Price
Arturo: Sergei Baigildin
The Australian Opera Chorus
Chorus Master: Gordon Kember
Lucrezia: Joan Sutherland
Gennaro: Ronald Stevens
Alfonso: Robert Allman
Rustighello: Graeme Ewer
Recorded live on 8 July 1977
Norma
Recorded live on 8 February 1986
by Vincenzo Bellini
Libretto by Felice Romani
La fille du régiment
Deh! Con te, con te li prendi…
Mira, o Norma
Duet, Act II Scene I
by Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto by Jean-François Bayard and
Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges
Les bonnes âmes du pays…Le jour
naissait dans le bocage
Trio, Act II
The Marquise of Berkenfield:
Heather Begg
Marie: Joan Sutherland
Sulpice: Gregory Yurisich
Recorded live on 9 August 1986
Norma: Joan Sutherland
Adalgisa: Margreta Elkins
Recorded live on 1 August 1978
Adriana Lecouvreur
Il trovatore
by Francesco Cilea
Libretto by Arturo Colautti
by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Salvatore Cammarano,
completed by Leone Emanuele Bardare
Una volta c’era un Principe…
Poveri fiori
Aria, Act III
Mlle Jouvenot: Judith Saliba
Mlle Dangeville: Jennifer Bermingham
Poisson: Christopher Dawes
Quinault: Jeffrey Black
Adriana: Joan Sutherland
Michonnet: John Shaw
Siam giunti…D’amor sull’ali rosee…
Miserere d’un’alma già vicina
Scene and aria, Act IV
Ruiz: Robin Donald
Leonora: Joan Sutherland
Manrico: Kenneth Collins
The Australian Opera Chorus
Chorus Master: Martin Handley
Recorded live on 18 February 1984
Recorded live on 2 July 1983
Die Fledermaus
The Merry Widow
by Johann Strauss II
Libretto by Karl Haffner and
Richard Genée
English translation by David Pountney
and Leonard Hancock
by Franz Lehár
Libretto by Viktor Léon and Leo Stein
English version by Christopher Hassell
By arrangement with Chappell and
Intersong Music Group (Australia)
Limited, on behalf of Glocken Verlag
Ltd London
I wonder if she really is
Hungarian?...The melodies of
my homeland
Aria, Act II
Adele: Monique Brynnel
Falke: Michael Lewis
Ida: Anne-Maree McDonald
Rosalinde: Joan Sutherland
Recorded live on 10 July 1982
Lakmé
by Léo Delibes
Libretto by Edmond Gondinet
and Philippe Gille
Viens, Mallika…Sous le dôme épais
Duet, Act I
Lakmé: Joan Sutherland
Mallika: Huguette Tourangeau
Recorded live on 18 August 1976
Let’s all now waken memories…Vilia
Aria, Act II
Anna Glawari: Joan Sutherland
The Australian Opera Chorus
Chorus Preparation: Peter Bandy
Recorded live on 23 February 1988
Act II
The Best of Joan Sutherland
Live from the Sydney Opera House
Producer
Audio Engineer
On-line
For Opera Australia
General Manager
Director of Business Affairs
Technical Director
Commercial Recordings Producer
Subtitles
Cheryl Forrest-Smith
Michael Gissing
Digital City Studios
Roen Davis
Lena Balout
Visualeyes
Adrian Collette
Russell Mitchell
John Moulton
Cheryl Forrest-Smith
Brian FitzGerald
Peter Butler (Norma)
Cheryl Forrest-Smith (Lakmé)
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