(1926-11-07)7 November 1926 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died
10 October 2010(2010-10-10) (aged 83) Les Avants, Vaud, Switzerland
Occupation(s)
Opera singer
Years active
1947–1990
Other names
La Stupenda[1]
Alma mater
Royal College of Music
Spouse
Richard Bonynge
(m. 1954)
Children
1
Musical artist
Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, OM, AC, DBE (7 November 1926 – 10 October 2010)[2] was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano known for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s to the 1980s.
She possessed a voice combining agility, accurate intonation, pinpoint staccatos,[3] a trill and a strong upper register, although music critics complained about her poor diction.[4][5]
Sutherland was the first Australian to win a Grammy Award, for the year 1961 Best Classical Performance – Vocal Soloist (with or without orchestra) presented in 1962.
She was known as 'La Stupenda' and is widely regarded as one of the greatest sopranos of all time.
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^"Icons of Opera – Dame Joan Sutherland", Opera Britannia (6 July 2009). Retrieved 27 September 2010. Archived 2 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine
^Major, Norma (1992). "Sutherland, Dame Joan". In Sadie, Stanley (ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Vol. 4. London: Macmillan. p. 612.
^Matthew Boyden; Nick Kimberley (2002). The Rough Guide to Opera. Rough Guides. p. 683. ISBN 9781858287492.
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