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The Autobiography of Joan Sutherland: A Prima Donna's Progress

November 19, 2018

I should probably stop kidding myself that I'm ever going to finish this. 11th February was when I marked it as 'currently reading'. In reality, it's actually been about a year, I'm only 100-or-so pages in, and it's still only the 1960's. What I've learned is that Joan Sutherland got a few good reviews and that her husband was totally HOT in his younger days. That's enough, no?

EDIT 2018 Can finally honestly review this, now that I've actually read it.

Bought this, brand new, when it came out and I was a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, keen, young soprano looking for inspiration. I'd initially eschewed a musical university education, but was enjoying a modicum of success on the (albeit somewhat limited) amateur scene, while pursuing my law degree. And there was probably that little bit of me that hoped, one day, I might be good enough, and rich enough, to try and make a go of professional singing. I looked to this book for some inspiration, finding, instead, a tedious diary devoid of any personal

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Joan Sutherland

Australian soprano

Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, OM, AC, DBE (7 November 1926 – 10 October 2010)^[2] was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano known for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s to the 1980s.

She possessed a voice combining agility, accurate intonation, pinpoint staccatos,^[3] a trill and a strong upper register, although music critics complained about her poor diction.^[4]^[5]

Sutherland was the first Australian to win a Grammy Award, for the year 1961 Best Classical Performance – Vocal Soloist (with or without orchestra) presented in 1962.

She was known as La Stupenda (Italian for 'The Stupendous One') and is widely regarded as one of the greatest sopranos of all time.

Early and personal life

Joan Sutherland was born in Sydney, Australia, to Scottish parents and attended St Catherine's School in the suburb of Waverley, New South Wales. As a child, she listened to and imitated her mother's singing exercises. Her mother,

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Biography

Hardly any other singer of our time has had such an uninterrupted and brilliant career as the Australian soprano, Joan Sutherland. Already described as `La Stupenda', the `Koloraturwunder' or `The Incomparable', she can look back on a career stretching over more than forty years which was soundly based and intelligently developed; but despite her international renown, despite the many honours she has received all over the world (in 1979 Queen Elizabeth II conferred on her the title of Dame of the British Empire) the artist has remained a completely natural human being.

Sutherland has been on the stage since 1947. In Sydney she sang the title role in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, followed by performances in Handel’s Samson and as Judith in Eugene Goossens' opera of that name. Her European career began in London in 1952 (including the part of Giorgetta in Puccini’s Il tabarro at the Royal College of Music) and in the same year she also made her debut at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden as the First Lady in The Magic Flute. Before appearing