Joan Sutherland: The Operas 1971–1988 CD Box Set
Opera recordings made from 1971 to 1988 constitute the third and final volume of this edition (released October 2024). Here we hear Sutherland singing all four dolls in one of the most colourful recordings ever made of Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann (1971), as well as a role she never sang on stage but has gone on to become one of the most celebrated of all operatic recordings in history: Turandot with Luciano Pavarotti and Montserrat Caballé, Zubin Mehta conducting (1972). Verdi is showcased with Rigoletto, Traviata, Trovatore (including the ballet music sequence), Ernani and Masnadieri, Bellini with Puritani, Sonnambula and Norma. This chapter in Dame Joan Sutherland’s in Decca’s operatic legacy closes with Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur (1988).
CDs 1-2 – VERDI: Rigoletto
CDs 3-4 – DONIZETTI: Lucia di Lammermoor
CDs 5-6 – OFFENBACH: Les Contes d’Hoffmann
CDs 7-8 – PUCCINI: Turandot
CDs 9-11 – BELLINI: I puritani (1973-74 digital recording)
CDs 12-13 – DONIZETTI: Maria Stuarda
CDs 14-15 – MASSENET: Esclarmonde
CD 16 – LEONI: L’Oracolo; The Prayer and the Sword
CDs 17-18 – VERDI: Il trovatore
CDs 19-20 – Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia
CD 21 – LEHÁR: The Merry Widow (highlights)
CD 22 PUCCINI: Suor Angelica; Vissi d’arte (Tosca)
CDs 23-24 – MASSENET: Le Roi de Lahore
CDs 25-26 – VERDI: La traviata
CDs 27-28 – BELLINI: La sonnambula (1980 digital recording)
CDs 29-30 – GAY: The Beggar’s Opera
CDs 31-32 – VERDI: I masnadieri
CDs 33-34 – THOMAS: Hamlet
CDs 35-37 – BELLINI: Norma (1984 digital recording)
CDs 38-39 – HANDEL: Rodelinda
CDs 40-42 – DONIZETTI: Anna Bolena
CDs 43-44 – VERDI: Ernani
CDs 45-46 – CILEA: Adriana Lecouvreur