How It’s Really Done
And this one is for Handel (and the White Shirt ladies).
With all one’s gibbering over those other sopranos one forgot that the greatest of the great was a homegrown Australian – La Stupenda, Joan Sutherland.
So here she is singing “Ah, mio cor, schernito sei” from Handel’s Alcina. This is purity. This is effortless magnificence:
In an unlikely link to the Diva, Sir Roger’s childhood piano teacher and her husband had been Sutherland’s original singing teachers. Ada had a lot less success with (then simply “The Hon.”) Roger. (He never got into preliminary grade.) But Ada Dickens was forbidden to rap him over the knuckles with the metronome for never practising….
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Posted: March 2nd, 2010 under Australian Values, Culture, Video, music, values.
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