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  • Norma review by gf from Devon
    Rated - 5.0 stars Norma 15 March 2007
    ...also over the top with Pollione strutting his stuff as a typical way out tenor. Joan Sutherland has a magnificent voice and also seemed to be over the top in the first half. I...   Read customer review
  • Donizetti - Anna Bolena
  • Donizetti - Anna Bolena review by gf from Devon
    Rated - 4.0 stars Less well known Donizetti 18 February 2007
    ... good story for an opera with plenty of dramatic situations. Some reservations. Joan Sutherland is not a good actress and that shows up more on a DVD. The last scene goes on t...   Read customer review
  • Donizetti - Lucia Di Lammermoor
  • Donizetti - Lucia Di Lammermoor review by A customer from Grimsby, Lincs
    Rated - 3.0 stars lucia de lammermoor 3 July 2008
    ...I never saw Joan Sutherland in the flesh but certainly on record I find her Lucia far less intense than either the Beverley Sills or Maria Callas interpretations. Sadly she pr...   Read customer review

Joan Sutherland - filmography


  • Dad And Dave: On Our Selection on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Essie Davis,  Ray Barrett,  Noah Taylor
    Director: George Whaley
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Anecdotal Australian period comedy set in the early 1900s. Joseph Rudd (Leo McKern) and his family move to a rural 'selection' (small farm) in remote Queensland. Barren and desolate, the land yields only a meagre harvest despite the family's relentless toil, and the depressed market doesn't do much ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 69 members
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  • Donizetti - Anna Bolena (1984)
    Starring: Joan Sutherland,  James Morris,  Canadian Opera Company
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    Metropolitan Opera production of Gaetano Donizetti's opera, conducted by Marco Armiliato. Anna Netrebko takes on the role of Anna Bolena, or Ann Boleyn, gradually driven over the edge of insanity by the philandering of her husband, Henry VIII (Ildar Abdrazakov).
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 63 members
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  • Adriana Lecouvreur - Cilea (1984)
    Starring: Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra,  Richard Bonynge,  Anson Austin
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    Francesco Cilea's most popular work is based on the 1849 play by Eugene Scribe and Ernest Legouve. Adriana Lecouvreur is a star of the stage who could seemingly have any man she desires, but when she falls hopelessly in love with the Count of Saxony, she discovers he's already been promised to the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 14 members
    Not available for rental
  • Il Trovatore (1983)
    Starring: Donald Shanks,  Lauris Elms,  Joan Sutherland
    Director: Elijah Moshinsky
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    Verdi's opera staged at the Sydney Opera House with Joan Sutherland, Lauris Elms and Kenneth Collins in the lead roles. The Count Di Luna believes that his younger brother was murdered years before by a vengeful gypsy but still hopes that he may be alive. When he attempts to court the beautiful ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 46 members
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  • Joan Sutherland - The Best Of
    Starring: Joan Sutherland
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian Icon and declared National Treasure, has been described as the foremost soprano of our age and one of the greatest operatic artists of all time. This programme contains highlights of her stage performances with Opera Australia, including many of her most ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 9 members
    Not available for rental
  • Joan Sutherland - The Reluctant Prima Donna on DVD
    Director: Joan Sutherland
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    The story of Dame Joan Sutherland, one of the greatest operatic performers of the late twentieth century. Shy and lacking in confidence, she sang unnoticed at Covent Garden for seven years after arriving from Australia, but over the course of twelve months she was transformed into 'La Stupenda'. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 8 members
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  • Joan Sutherland - Bel Canto Showcase - V... on DVD
    Starring: Joan Sutherland
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    Dame Joan Alston Sutherland was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano. In this DVD she makes her appearance on the Voice of Firestone in this special presentation, showing off her singing abilities at the height of their powers.
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 3 members
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  • La Stupenda - The Glory Of Joan Sutherland
    Starring: Joan Sutherland
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    A collection of four performances, plus a 1983 gala concert, featuring the legendary Australian soprano. Recorded at Sydney's Royal Opera House, the operas featured include: 'Lucrezia Borgia', 'La fille du Régiment', 'Adriana Lecouvreur' and 'Les Huguenots'. The gala concert, in which she is ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 35% from 2 members
    Not available for rental

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