Joan Sutherland - Esclarmonde (3)

Joan Sutherland singing a beautiful aria from Esclarmonde by Massenet
D'une longue torpeur je sens que je m'éveille...
Ah! Je me souviens! Honte sans pareille!
Le prêtre! Les bourreaux! Roland perdu pour moi!
Les esprits à leurs mains cruelles m'ont ravie,
me ramenant vers l'île où je reçus sa foi!
Puis d'un profond sommeil je me suis endormie...
Hélas! En retrouvant la vie et la pensée,
je te retrouve, ô souvenir
d'une félicité passée
qui ne doit plus jamais revenir!
Ah! Plus notre hymen avait de charmes,
plus je dois répandre de larmes
sur le bonheur que j'ai perdu.
Hélas! Hélas!
Joan in good company: Tulio Serafin, Franco Zeffirelli, Gianni Raimondi, Marilyn Horne, Birgit Nilsson, Silvio Varviso, Regina Resnik, Ania Dorfmann, Bidu Sayao, Nicola Moscona, Jennie Tourel, Thelma Votipka, Robert Merrill, Alfredo Kraus, Nicolai Gedda, Placido Domingo, Lucine Amara, Teresa Zylis-Gara, Pilar Lorengar, Grace Bumbry, Montserrat Caballe, Luciano Pavarotti, Alexandra Danilova, Florence Eldridge, Maria Callas, Renato Cioni, Giulietta Simionato, Noel Coward, Kiri Te Kanawa, Angela Lansbury, Alfred Marks, Stafford Dean, The Queen Mother, Carlo Bergonzi, Andre Montal, Cornelis Hopthof, Tonina Dorati, Norman Ayrton, John Alexander, Clifford Grant, Michel Roux, Franco Tagliavini, Giacomo Aragall.

[@babydrane]

She is just the best in this entire opera. I had the cd and made a point of listening to it everday for about two weeks. Massenet is also a genius.

[@esclarmonde1]

Joan Sutherland considered Esclarmonde to be her finest role and she was magificent.

[@JeeRant]

I'm loving all these old pictures!

[@Hako2004]

The relationship was not close, but both admired the other. Callas sat in on a dress-rehearsal of Joan's early Lucia. According to companions, she said "this isn't good". When asked if she didn't like it, she said, "no, it is TOO good". Sutherland said she learned a lot watching Callas, and Richard encouraged her to study Callas. Once, before an big performance, Callas kindly sent Joan a note wishing her well, and apologized for not attending, saying she was there" in spirit."

[@blktenor]

Wow she photographed with everyone. I just saw Angela Lansbury!

[@bellini7verdi]

SUTHERLAND ES SIMPLEMENTE ......Y ADEMAS MUY SIMPLEMENTE........LA VOZ ...MAS INMENSA Y PORTENTOSA...QUE NADIE SE HAYA IMAGINADO..........LO SEGUIRE DICIENDO HASTA EL DIA D EMI MUERTE.......EL MAYOR TESORO SONORO.....QUE NADIE HAYA ESCUCHADO........UN SER HUMANO INIMAGINABLEMENTE ESPECIAL........

[@sutherlandfan64]

The tenor Giacomo Aragall, as the knight Roland, in an Esclarmonde production with Joan in San Francisco in 1974

[@ChrisStockslager]

Beautiful aria and wonderful rare pictures. The picture at 1:29 with Callas has always made me wonder: did they like each other? Was Callas jealous of Joan's voice and career, and Joan of Callas' acting? What did they think of the other's techniques?

[@ChrisStockslager]

I agree. ;) Yum.

[@esclarmonde1]

@iriisblue. I am only repeating what Joan said.

[@dmitrid1]

why, judging from one other video of the Dame in Esclaramonde, the outfit and man wearing the same clothes up close and farther away, with the pronounced bulge, was Placido

[@mitchellbolding206]

Not Placido. In the picture is Giacomo Aragall (Jaume Aragall)

[@joseffinat966]

Wat weet U hoe Tijl-Uilenspiegel zich voelt ?

[@ChrisStockslager]

Also, who's the guy with the ummm... bulge... at 3:36?

[@mitchellbolding206]

Giacomo Aragall (Jaume Aragall)

[@JDOopera76]

haha : ]

[@joseffinat966]

Wat een oldtimerregeling, Been 😁 NOT GOOD performer 😘 in ieder geval good-nicht Welterusten 😴