Joan C Sutherland

The Autobiography of Joan Sutherland: A Prima Donna's Progress

A book for the true fans of the great Australian prima donna, one of the finest sopranos of all time, and one of the most hard-working and professional singers to appear in recent decades.

The Art of Joan Sutherland (Volume III - Romanitc Italian Arias)

Stupenda, La: Biography of Joan Sutherland

Joan Sutherland

Cavanagh of Kultann (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Cavanagh of KultannIt was the middle of an August afternoon, and outside the District Officer's bungalow no sign of life was visible save a sleepy Hindu nodding over a rifle he was cleaning and a fox-terrier lying asleep on the verandah. It was drawing near the end of the hot weather, a...

Desborough of the North-West Frontier (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Desborough of the North-West FrontierThe monsoon, such of it as reached the north-west fringes of the great Indian desert, was three weeks overdue, and the parched earth was cracked and the leaves hung withered and brown on the trees. Fort Amrah, situated not far from Peshawur and the s...

Joan Sutherland

A revised biography of the soprano Joan Sutherland. The possessor of the voice that has thrilled millions was first trained in her birthplace Sydney, Australia and after struggles and disappointments at the Royal College of Music, London, was dramatically transformed into an outstanding operatic phe...

Joan Sutherland: The Authorized Biography

An authorized biography of the opera legend includes details about her childhood in Australia, her struggle to achieve success, and her brilliant career as a great soprano, and offers a behind-the-scenes look at her great performances.

Joan Sutherland Album

Joan Sutherland Album

The Autobiography of Joan Sutherland: A Prima Donna's Progress

The Autobiography of Joan Sutherland: A Prima Donna's Progress

The Drama of Opera: Exotic and Irrational Entertainment

The Drama of Opera: Exotic and Irrational Entertainment

Joan Sutherland

…In 1957, she appeared in Handel's Alcina with the Handel Opera Society, and sang selections from Donizetti's Emilia di Liverpool in a radio broadcast, in which performances her bel canto potential was clearly demonstrated, vindicating her husband's judgement. The following year she sang Donn...

Maria Callas

…critics didn't write about it. When Callas was at her best vocally, she was fat, but she got only a quarter of the recognition that she got after she had become thin and was a great star." [57]Joan Sutherland adds, "I think she was very misguided. I think she wanted to be in the sort of jet-...