TRACKLISTING

CD 1
1 Tornami a vagheggiar (Alcina)
Alcina Handel
2 Ah! Ruggiero crudel … Ombre pallide (Alcina)
Alcina Handel
3 Let the bright seraphim (Israelite Woman)
Samson Handel
4 With plaintive note (Delilah)
Samson Handel
5 Rejoice, greatly
Messiah Handel
6 My vengeance awakes me (Athalia)
Athalia Handel
7 V’adoro, pupille (Cleopatra)
Giulio Cesare Handel
8 Se pietà di me non senti (Cleopatra)
Giulio Cesare Handel
9 Da tempeste il legno infranto (Cleopatra)
Giulio Cesare Handel
10 Per la gloria
Griselda Bononcini
11 Nel cor più non mi sento
L’Amor contrastato, “La Molinara” Paisiello
12 Furie di donna irata (Cecchina)
La Cecchina, “La Buona figliuola” Piccinni
13 The traveller benighted
Love in a village Arne
14 The soldier tir’d (Mandane)
Artaxerxes Arne
15 When William at eve (Rosina)
Rosina Shield
16 Whilst with village maids (Rosina)
Rosina Shield
17 Light as thistledown (Rosina)
Rosina Shield

CD 2
Mozart:
1 Martern aller Arten (Konstanze)
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
2 O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn … Zum Leiden bin ich auserkoren (Königin der Nacht)
3 Ach, ich fühl’s (Pamina)
Die Zauberflöte
4 Or sai chi l’onore (Donna Anna)
5 Non mi dir (Donna Anna)
Don Giovanni
6 Porgi amor (Contessa)
7 Voi che sapete (Cherubino)
8 Dove sono (Contessa)
9 Giunse alfin il momento … Deh vieni, non tardar (Susanna)
Le nozze di Figaro
10 L’amerò, sarò costante (Aminta)
Il re pastore
11 Vorrei spiegarvi, O Dio!, K418
12 Ch’io mi scordi di te … Non temer, K505
13 Allelujah (Exsultate, jubilate, K165)

CD 3
1 Santo di patria … Allor che I forti corrono (Odabella)
Attila Verdi
2 Dall’infame banchetto io m’involai … Tu del mio Carlo al seno … Carlo vive! (Amalia)
I masnadieri Verdi
3 Che! e segnar questa mano potrebbe l’onta mia? … Tu puniscimi, o Signore (Luisa)
Luisa Miller Verdi
4 Surta è la notte … Ernani! Ernani, involami (Elvira)
Ernani
5 Mia madre aveva una povera ancella … Piangea cantando (Desdemona)
Otello Verdi
6 Mercé, dilette amiche (Bolero) (Elena)
I vespri siciliani Verdi
7 Gerechter Gott … In seiner Blüte (Adriano)
Rienzi Wagner
8 Johohohe (Senta’s Ballad)
Der fliegende Holländer Wagner
9 Dich, teure Halle (Elisabeth)
10 Allmächt’ge Jungfrau hör mein Flehen (Elisabeth)
Tannhäuser Wagner
11 Einsam in trüben Tagen (Elsa)
Lohengrin Wagner
12 Du bist der Lenz (Sieglinde)
Die Walküre Wagner
13 O Sachs, mein Freund (Eva)
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Wagner
14 Mild und leise wie er lächelt (Liebestod) (Isolde)
Tristan und Isolde Wagner

CD 4
1 Conduisez-moi vers celui que j’adore (Edwige)
Robinson Crusoé Offenbach
2 Bellah! ma chèvre chérie! … Dors, petite (Dinorah)
Dinorah Meyerbeer
3 Depuis le jour (Louise)
Louise Charpentier
4 Dites-lui qu’on l’a remarqué (La Grande-Duchesse)
La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein Offenbach
5 C’est l’histoire amoureuse (Manon)
Manon Lescaut Auber
6 Non temete, milord … Or son sola (Zerlina)
Fra Diavolo Auber
7 Me voilà seule … Comme autrefois dans la nuit sombre (Leila)
Les Pêcheurs de perles Bizet
8 Les oiseaux dans la charmille (Olympia)
Les Contes d’Hoffmann Offenbach
9 Ah! que mes soeurs sont heureuses … Reste au foyer, petit grillon (Cendrillon)
Cendrillon Massenet
10 O légère hirondelle (Mireille)
Mireille Gounod
11 Vous aimez le danger … Ah! que j’aime les militaires! (Grande-Duchesse)
La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein Offenbach
12 C’est bien lui … La, la, la, air chéri (Catherine)
L’Etoile du Nord Meyerbeer
13 Ce Sarrasin disait (Xaïma)
Le Tribut de Zamora Gounod
14 En vain j’espère … Idole de ma vie (Isabelle)
Robert le Diable Meyerbeer
15 Un soir Perez le capitaine (Micaela)
Le Coeur et la main Lecocq
16 Au bord de chemin … Cette nuit, sur ma croisée (Jeannette)
Les Noces de Jeannette Massé

CD 5
1 Si le bonheur (Siebel)
Faust Gounod
2 La marguerite a fermé sa corolle … Ouvre ton coeur (Léonard)
Vasco da Gama Bizet
3 Veille sur eux … Vaisseau que le flot balance (Catherine)
L’Etoile du Nord Meyerbeer
4 O beau pays de la Touraine … Sombre chimère … A ce mot seul s’anime (Marguerite de Valois)
Les Huguenots Meyerbeer
5 Dieu! Comme cette nuit est lente … Ombre légère (Dinorah)
Dinorah Meyerbeer
6 De cet affreux combat … Pleurez mes yeux (Chimène)
Le Cid Massenet
7 De moi je veux bannir (Sitâ)
Le Roi de Lahore Massenet
8 Esprits de l’air! Esprits de l’onde! … Roland! Roland! Roland! (Esclarmonde)
Esclarmonde Massenet
9 O Dieu! que de bijoux … Ah! je ris de me voir (Marguerite)
Faust Gounod
10 Ah! je veux vivre (Juliette)
Roméo et Juliette Gounod
11 Le Rossignol*
Delibes
12 Sérénade*
Gounod
13 Les Filles de Cadiz*
Delibes
14 Pastorale*
Bizet
15 Oh! Si les fleurs avaient des yeux*
Massenet
16 Le Papillon et le fleur*
Fauré
*First ever release

CD 6
1 Pour ce contrat fatal … Salut à la France* (Marie)
La fIlle du régiment Donizetti
2 Ocean! thou mighty monster! (Reiza)
Oberon Weber
3 A vos jeux, mes amis, permettez-moi …
4 Le voilà! Je crois entendre (Ophélie)
Hamlet Thomas
5 Il dolce suono mi colpì di sua voce … Ardon gl’incensi (Lucia)
Lucia di Lammermoor Donizetti
6 E strano! … Ah, fors’è lui …
7 Follie! Delirio vano è questo! … Sempre libera (Violetta)
La traviata Verdi
8 Dormono entrambi …**
9 Mi chiami, o Norma! …**
10 Deh! Con te, con te li prendi …**
11 Mira, o Norma ...**
12 Sì, fino all’ore estreme (Norma, Adalgisa)**
Norma Bellini
** First International CD release

RECORDING INFORMATION

A Must Have box for all fans of great singing.

6CDs presenting the art of this outstanding Decca artist from 1959 to 1985.

First time release on any format - 6 French Songs (with Richard Bonynge at the piano).

On CD for the first time - An extended scene from Bellini's Norma from a Gala performance at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

All the arias from the 1970 Romantic French Arias together for the first time.

During her long association with DECCA — one that lasted for over 30 years — Dame Joan Sutherland made over thirty recordings of different operas (and more than one version of some of these); she also made many recital discs and other recitals around a theme or programme.

Joan Sutherland's recordings — usually made with her husband, conductor/pianist Richard Bonynge - have sold in vast quantities. Since her sensational and meteoric rise to fame as a result of her performances in Lucia di Lammermoor in February 1959 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Joan Sutherland has been a household name and symbol of excellence — even today largely unchallenged — in coloratura singing.

During the many years she recorded for DECCA there have been many compilations and tributes dedicated to La Stupenda as she has been dubbed and almost all of her recordings have appeared on CD. This new major retrospective showcases Joan Sutherland in many of her famous roles and features recordings right across her recording career from 1959 and the famous Paris recital to her participation in a recording of a Handel rarity, Athalia, with Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music, in 1985.

For the first time ever the complete selection of arias which formed the 1970 release of “Romantic French Arias” is available on CD; an extended scene from Act Three of Norma in a live recording from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, from a concert in aid of the Darwin appeal, is included and appears on CD for the first time; and an ever greater bonus is included here with the release FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER of 6 French songs with Richard Bonynge as pianist. These songs were recorded at the end of the “Romantic French Arias” sessions in September 1969 and the tape was fogotten about until now! Indeed Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge themselves don't remember recording them!!

Joan Sutherland has written an introduction to the set and recalls with great fondness moments from a long and truly distinguished career and the many roles she sang and a very generous selection of photographs depict La Stupenda in a variety of roles across the years.

This new set is a “must” for all Sutherland fans and devotees!