A report on Joan Sutherland, Franco Zeffirelli and Luciano Pavarotti
In 1959, Sutherland was invited to sing Lucia di Lammermoor at the Royal Opera House in a production conducted by Tullio Serafin and staged by Franco Zeffirelli.
- Joan SutherlandAccompanying her was a young tenor named Luciano Pavarotti.
- Joan SutherlandAn early coup involved his connection with Joan Sutherland (and her conductor husband, Richard Bonynge), who in 1963 was seeking a tenor taller than herself to take along on her 1965 tour to Australia.
- Luciano PavarottiZeffirelli also collaborated with Joan Sutherland, designing and directing her performances of Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor in 1959.
- Franco ZeffirelliShortly after, on 28 April, Pavarotti made his La Scala debut in the revival of the famous Franco Zeffirelli production of La bohème, with his childhood friend Mirella Freni singing Mimi and Herbert von Karajan conducting.
- Luciano PavarottiDon Carlo with Luciano Pavarotti and Daniela Dessì (live La Scala – stage director)
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Plácido Domingo
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Spanish opera singer, conductor and arts administrator.
He also starred in many cinematically released and televised opera movies, particularly under the direction of Franco Zeffirelli.
In 1990, he began singing with fellow tenors Luciano Pavarotti and José Carreras as part of The Three Tenors.
Later the same year, he made his debut in the United States with the Dallas Civic Opera, where he sang the role of Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor opposite Joan Sutherland in the title role and Ettore Bastianini as Enrico.