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Home Sweet Home / Joan Sutherland
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Beautiful Yuletide Music
Australian diva Joan Sutherland singing “Home Sweet Home” at the conclusion of one of her farewell performances overseas. It was repeated at her final performance on October 2nd 1990, ending an outstanding career in her home town of Sydney, at the famous Opera House. ( that glorious rendition not available on you tube).
Home Sweet Home .. video 5 min 26
Bio excerpt:
Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, OM, AC, DBE (born 7 November 1926) the Australian dramatic coloratura soprano noted for her contribution in the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire in the late 1950s and 1960s.
One of the most remarkable female opera singers of the 20th century, she was dubbed La Stupenda by a La Fenice audience in 1960 after an Alcina performance. She possessed a voice of beauty and power, combining extraordinary agility, accurate intonation, a splendid trill and a tremendous upper register.
Her friend Luciano Pavarotti once called Sutherland the “Voice of the Century”, while Montserrat Caballé described the Australian’s voice as being like “heaven”.
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Thank you, John, for posting this lovely rendition of a song that speaks to so many, particularly at this holiday season. Only a musical genius could take such a simple melody and make it as evocative and moving as any of the great operatic arias for which she is justly famous.