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, ...

GENEVA — Soprano Joan Sutherland, whose purity of tone and brilliant vocal display made her one of the most celebrated opera singers of all time, has died at 83 after a four-decade career that won her ...

(Reuters) - Australian opera diva Joan Sutherland has died aged 83. One of the great sopranos of the 20th century, Sutherland is ranked with Maria Callas as the most important female influences on ...

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 ...

LONDON (AP) - The late opera star Joan Sutherland, regarded as one of the greatest opera singers of the twentieth century, was honored Tuesday at a special service at Westminster Abbey.The service of ...

SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--After seven months of major building works, the world-famous Joan Sutherland Theatre (JST) reopens tonight with Opera Australia’s performance of The Merry Widow. The ...

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 ...