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Cristina Scabbia, Sharon Den Adel & Simone Simons © sharondenadelfanpage

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Tarja Turunen em São Paulo 🖤✨

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Birgit Nilsson was a Swedish dramatic soprano.

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Cristina Scabbia 📸© Marta Petrucci

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I'm Still Here (2024)

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Cristina Scabbia & Andrea Ferro 📸© Marta Petrucci

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Dame Joan Sutherland, the Mary widow.

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Merry Christmas!!! 🌟🎄🎉🕊

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Remembering our dear Birgit who passed away on a Christmas Day in 2005.

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Wish you all the magic of Christmas be present in every day of your lifes! Always bringing and renewing the bonds of union, love, kindness, hope and peace!

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#MerryChristmas #Dramatic #Soprano #BirgitNilsson #LaNilsson #ClassicalMusic #Opera #OperaSinger

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WITHIN TEMPTATION feat. TARJA #MetalMonday

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Sharon Den Adel & Tarja Turunen

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Sharon Den Adel & Tarja Turunen

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Sleeping Beauty (1959) - dir. Clyde Geronimi, Wolfgang Reitherman, Eric Larson and Les Clark

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#MadMonday Only Joan could deliver a mad scene so haunting and creepy, at the same time so warm and emotive. Her voice (cavernous) for the most coloratura singers is an event apart, combined with Zeffirelli's direction, the idealized Lucia, till current days Joan's performance is the manual to be followed.

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Except taken from a tv apparition in 1962, colorized by "La Stupenda" YouTube channel. (Hosted by @dixie_normous_au ).

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Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonynge

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#MADMONDAY

"I predict that if Maria Callas, now thirty four, goes on performing at the present rate, she will have left no professional singing voice by the time she is forty. Joan Sutherland... will, within five years, be acclaimed as famous an international star as Maria Callas is now, but she will no longer be a member of the Covent Garden Company." Noël Goodwin

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By the time Noël said that, he did not know that Joan's doctor had ordered her into hospital because of further ear abscesses, a danger of mastoid and even some lung damage. Joan refused to go until she met her engagement to sing in six performances of Lucia di Lammermoor, so the specialist reserved a hospital bed for her.

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Lucia di Lammermoor - Teatro alla Scala - 1961.

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#tbt Joan (blonde?) with her son Adam in the maternity in 1956.

In 1955 when Joan was doing her part (Micaëla) in Carmen (with the great Resnik in the title role) the critics pointed that Joan was too mature for the peasant girl (around fourteen years old) she was playing. Joan take gesture lessons with Norman Ayrton to become less "heroine" as she looked on stage. Richard aware of her singing, attempted to make her sound less "robust." The dyed hair was also Richard's idea to have an improvement for the role.

*Ah! For those who are wondering: Adam was born on February 13.