From the late 1950s up until her last stage appearance in 1990, Australian soprano Dame Joan Sutherland was one of the world's most admired and... Remembering 'La Stupenda': Opera Singer Joan ...

On Sunday, opera lovers began mourning the death of the great Joan Sutherland, the soprano often called "the voice of the century," nicknamed "La Stupenda." Here's what people are remembering as the ...

Australia’s most famous opera singer, Dame Joan Sutherland, died in Switzerland on Sunday aged 83, after a long battle with illness. “The family of Dame Joan Sutherland … wishes to let all her friends ...

Dame Joan Sutherland had a voice that defied expectations: Powerful and penetrating, but still sweet and soft-edged, brilliantly secure in high notes and florid passages but with rich, round presence ...

I have often written eulogies of various people I have only marginally known, and today is no exception. I first heard Joan Sutherland sing in New York’s Metropolitan Opera on a fluke. A friend had ...

When Joan Sutherland came to Boston on a Metropolitan Opera tour in 1964, in her signature role of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, a friend and I were sitting in the next-to-last row of the balcony, ...