Joan Sutherland

Recalling Joan Sutherland, Richard Morefield and Barbara Billingsley.

ABC News: Top Stories 2010

Joan Sutherland played the role of the mother in the 1995 Australian folk film "Dad and Dave: On Our Selection," and Galina Vishnevskaya, the great Bolshoi soprano and wife of the late Mstislav Rostropovich, played a determined Russian grandmother going to visit her grandson fighting in the Chechen war in Aleksandr Sokurov's critically acclaimed 2007 film "Alexandra."

Sure, they can sing (opera), but can they act? 2011

Here in Chicago Natalie Dessay gave us a Lucia which for me was the best since Joan Sutherland - and Dessay joined with Jonas Kaufman in Manon to give a heart stopping performance that I will never forget.

Brian Dickie: That was the decade that was! Brian Dickie 2011

Here in Chicago Natalie Dessay gave us a Lucia which for me was the best since Joan Sutherland - and Dessay joined with Jonas Kaufman in Manon to give a heart stopping performance that I will never forget.

Brian Dickie: That was the decade that was! Brian Dickie 2011

But my friend Margie and I had tickets to a concert at The Church of the Transfiguration, famously known as "The Little Church Around the Corner", presenting an emerging star, a lyric coloratura soprano, Siobhan Stagg from Australia, in a tribute to renowned opera royalty, Dame Nellie Melba and Dame Joan Sutherland.

Irene Tanner: Singin' in the Rain -- The Blog Irene Tanner 2012

But my friend Margie and I had tickets to a concert at The Church of the Transfiguration, famously known as "The Little Church Around the Corner", presenting an emerging star, a lyric coloratura soprano, Siobhan Stagg from Australia, in a tribute to renowned opera royalty, Dame Nellie Melba and Dame Joan Sutherland.

Irene Tanner: Singin' in the Rain -- The Blog Irene Tanner 2012

Fear gave way to bewilderment when, as a teenager, he obtained a copy of Joan Sutherland's "Joy to the World."

Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2011

But my friend Margie and I had tickets to a concert at The Church of the Transfiguration, famously known as "The Little Church Around the Corner", presenting an emerging star, a lyric coloratura soprano, Siobhan Stagg from Australia, in a tribute to renowned opera royalty, Dame Nellie Melba and Dame Joan Sutherland.

Irene Tanner: Singin' in the Rain -- The Blog Irene Tanner 2012

For two tickets to an opera you can now buy a computer and watch Leontyne Price and Joan Sutherland on YouTube for free!

Michael Kaiser: Why Ticket Prices Must Change 2010

Assuming the mantle of Giuditta Pasta, Maria Callas and Joan Sutherland is no mean feat, especially just a few years after one's professional debut, and Ms. Meade acquitted herself with distinction.

Soaring Voices Of Treason 2010