A report on Metropolitan Opera and Joan Sutherland

Gatti-Casazza's last week at the Met (March 22–29, 1935)

Artur Bodanzky at the Metropolitan Opera in 1915

Sutherland sang Lucia to great acclaim in Paris in 1960 and, in 1961, at La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera.

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Other celebrated singers who debuted at the Met during Bing's tenure include: Roberta Peters, Victoria de los Ángeles, Renata Tebaldi, Maria Callas, who had a bitter falling out with Bing over repertoire,, Birgit Nilsson, Joan Sutherland, Régine Crespin, Mirella Freni, Renata Scotto, Montserrat Caballé, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Anna Moffo, James McCracken, Carlo Bergonzi, Franco Corelli, Alfredo Kraus, Plácido Domingo, Nicolai Gedda, Luciano Pavarotti, Jon Vickers, Tito Gobbi, Sherrill Milnes, and Cesare Siepi.

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The Hall of Arms (act 1, scene 3) in the original 1835 production

I puritani

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1835 opera by Vincenzo Bellini.

Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso 1832, by Francesco Hayez (detail)

In 1829 the Théâtre-Italien was performing in the first Salle Favart

Disegno per copertina di libretto, drawing for I Puritani (undated).

Rubini as Arturo in I puritani, Paris 1835

Grisi and Lablache in I puritani, King's Theatre, London, 1835

Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti, 1976 performance at the Metropolitan Opera

Antonio Tamburini sang Riccardo – Lithography by Josef Kriehuber

An excerpt from "Credeasi, misera", act 3. The notes highlighted (above the high C) are among the highest demanded in tenor operatic repertoire and are usually sung falsetto or altogether transposed.

In that year the opera appeared at the Manhattan Opera House in New York, followed by stagings at the Metropolitan Opera in February 1917, but in New York it was not revived for many years.

The 1960s saw a variety of performances in the years between 1960 (Glyndebourne Festival with Joan Sutherland which was recorded) and 1969 when Weinstock's account ends.

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

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German-born Austro-British soprano.

Schwarzkopf as Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni

Schwarzkopf as the Marschallin in Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier

Schwarzkopf made her American concert debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on October 28 and 29, 1954, in Strauss's Four Last Songs and the closing scene from Capriccio with Fritz Reiner conducting; her Carnegie Hall debut was a Lieder recital on 25 November 1956; her American opera debut was with the San Francisco Opera on 20 September 1955 as the Marschallin, and her debut at the Metropolitan Opera on 13 October 1964, also as the Marschallin.

Don Giovanni (Carlo Maria Giulini, Philharmonia Orchestra) (Warner Classics 1959) with Joan Sutherland as Donna Anna.

Huguette Tourangeau

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French-Canadian operatic mezzo-soprano, particularly associated with the French and Italian repertories.

Around that time, she began a partnership with Dame Joan Sutherland and Bonynge, both on stage and on record.

She made her formal Metropolitan Opera debut on November 28, 1973, as Nicklausse in The Tales of Hoffmann (with Plácido Domingo in the name part), and later sang Dorabella in Così fan tutte (1975–76), Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro (opposite Justino Díaz and Judith Blegen, 1976) and Parséïs in Esclarmonde (opposite Sutherland, 1976).