1 / 6

Dame Joan Alston Sutherland

Dame Joan Alston Sutherland. Biography by Pia. When was she born?/Early years. Joan Sutherland was born to in Sydney. A ttended St Catherine's School. Her mother, a mezzo-soprano, had taken voice lessons.

kay
Download Presentation

Dame Joan Alston Sutherland

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Dame Joan Alston Sutherland Biography by Pia

  2. When was she born?/Early years. • Joan Sutherland was born to in Sydney. • Attended St Catherine's School. • Her mother, a mezzo-soprano, had taken voice lessons. • Sutherland was 18 years old when she began studying voice lesson with John and Aida Dickens. • She went to London to study at the Opera School of the Royal College of Music.

  3. Why is she famous? • One of the most remarkable female opera singers. • She possessed a voice of beauty and power. • Combining extraordinary agility, accurate intonation, pinpoint staccatos. • A splendid trill and a tremendous upper register. • Music critics often complained about the imprecision

  4. Career highlights • Her double LP set won the Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Vocal Soloist in 1962. • She sang Lucia to great acclaim in Paris at La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera. • Also in 1960, she sang a superb Alcina at La Fenice, Venic, • where she was nicknamed La Stupenda ("The Stunning One").

  5. Retirement and Death • Announced retirement in 2007. • Since then , Sutherland made relatively few public appearances, preferring privacy. • Won the Royal Philharmonic Society's gold medal. • Sang in The Cardiff Singer of the World competition. • On 11 October 2010, Sutherland died in her home at Les Avants in Switzerland.

  6. Bibliography • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Sutherland • http://www.google.com.au/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi

More Related