TRACKLISTING

CD1
1 Gounod
Roméo et Juliette: Je veux vivre
ROHO / Molinari-Pradelli

2 Verdi
La traviata: E’ strano … Ah, fors’è lui … Sempre libera
ROHO / Molinari-Pradelli

3 Delibes
Lakmé: Ah! Où va la jeune Indoue (Bell Song)
ROHO / Molinari-Pradelli

4 Verdi
Luisa Miller: Che! e segnar questa mano potrebbe l’onta mia …Tu puniscimi, o Signore
LSO / Bonynge

5 Bizet
Vasco da Gama: La marguerite a fermé sa corolla …
Ouvre ton cœur
OSR / Bonynge

6-8 Donizetti
Lucia di Lammermoor: O giusto cielo …Il dolce suono mi colpi di sua voce!
Ohimè! Sorge il tremendo fantasma
Spargi d’amaro pianto (mad scene)
OASCR / Pritchard

9 Bellini
Norma: Sediziose voci … Casta Diva
ROHO / Molinari-Pradelli

10 Offenbach
Les Contes d’Hoffman: Les oiseaux dans la charmille (Doll Song)
OSR / Bonynge

11 Bellini
I puritani: O rendetemi la speme … Qui la voce …Vien, diletto (mad scene)
ROHO / Molinari-Pradelli

12 Heuberger
Der Opernball: Im Chambre séparée
New PO / Bonynge

13 J.Strauss
II Casanova: Nuns’ Chorus
New PO / Bonynge

14 Massenet
Le Cid: De cet affreux combat … Pleurez mes yeux
LSO / Bonynge

15 Bellini
La Sonnambula: Ah! non giunge uman pensiero
OMMF / Bonynge

CD2
1 Gounod
Faust: O Dieu! Que de bijoux…Ah! Je ris de me voir (Jewel Song)
ROHO / Molinari-Pradelli

2 Rossini
Semiramide: Bel raggio lusinghier … Dolce pensiero
LSO / Bonynge

3 Bellini
Beatrice di Tenda: Eccomi pronta ... Deh, se un'urna
LSO / Bonynge

4 Donizetti
La Fille du régiment: Pour ce contrat fatal … Salut à la France
ROHO / Bonynge

5 Verdi
Rigoletto: E il sol dell’anima (with Luciano Pavarotti)
LSO / Bonynge

6 Verdi
Rigoletto: Gualtier Maldè … Caro nome
LSO / Bonynge

7 Lehár
Eva: War’ es auch nichts als ein Traum von Glück
New PO / Bonynge

8 Noel Coward
Pacific 1860: This is a changing world
Chorus & Orchestra / Bonynge

9 Donizetti
L’elisir d’amore: Chiedi all'aura lusinghiera (with Luciano Pavarotti)
ECO / Bonynge

10 Puccini
Turandot: In questa reggia (with Luciano Pavarotti)
LPO / Mehta

11 Donizetti
Maria Stuarda: Da tutti abbandonata (with Luciano Pavarotti)
OTCB / Bonynge

12 Donizetti
Lucrezia Borgia: Era desso il figlio mio
NPO / Bonynge

Bonus Track - First ever release on CD of complete scena
13 Donizetti
Rosmonda d’Inghilterra (alternative aria from Lucia di Lammermoor):
Ancor non giunse … Perchè non ho del vento …Torna, torna, o caro oggetto
OASCR / Pritchard

RECORDING INFORMATION

CELEBRATING THE 80th BIRTHDAY OF DECCA's GREATEST SOPRANO

Dame Joan Sutherland celebrates her 80th Birthday on November 7th 2006

Deluxe 2CD LIMITED EDITION tribute to a living legend

Two discs of truly outstanding singing from the soprano known as 'La Stupenda'

A celebration of an astonishing Decca recording career spanning nearly 30 years

Limited Edition Deluxe 'book' product - more than 100 pages

Complete Decca discography with illustrations of all original opera and recital covers

With this 2CD Limited Edition book Decca pays tribute to a living legend of opera and recording as she celebrates her 80th birthday. As well as representing Joan Sutherland's greatest operatic stage roles, the tracklist also includes rarely heard arias and songs from her many recital albums, and duets with her frequent recording partner Luciano Pavarotti.

The book includes a complete illustrated discography of all Joan Sutherland's Decca operas and recital discs, along with their original covers, many of which have rarely been seen.

Joan Sutherland's association with Decca covered a period of nearly thirty years. Her first complete Decca opera recording was Lucia di Lammermoor in 1962, and the the last was Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur, recorded in 1988. Her many recital discs include the acclaimed collection The Art Of The Prima Donna and definitive recordings of French and Italian arias as well as collections of popular songs and favourites from operetta.

Born in Australia in 1926, Joan Sutherland travelled to London to become a member of the Royal Opera at Covent Garden where she sang for several years (from 1952); in 1959 the director Franco Zeffirelli staged a new production of Donizetti's then rarely-performedLucia di Lammermoor with Joan Sutherland in the title role. The first night was among the most sensational operatic events London has ever seen and Joan Sutherland became an international star overnight. Through the following decades she sang frequently in all the great opera houses of the World, including La Scala, Milan. where she was named 'La Stupenda'.

Encouraged by her husband and mentor, the conductor Richard Bonynge, Joan Sutherland focussed much of her career on the operas of Bellini and Donizetti. Her unparalleled technical accomplishment was even more remarkable given the formidable size and range of her voice, and it was the combination of astonishing agility and sheer vocal power which made her such a uniquely thrilling singer.

Since her retirement from the stage on New Year's Eve (31 December) 1990 Joan Sutherland has continued to travel, from her home in Switzerland, passing on her experience to young singers in competitions and masterclasses.

Also released for the Joan Sutherland Birthday:

Serate Musicali - an evening of song recorded in the Swiss home of Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonynge.

6 Joan Sutherland operas in the CLASSIC OPERA series.