Joan Sutherland - Box 3: The Operas 1971-1988 (Preorder 09/01/26)

 Joan Sutherland - Box 3: The Operas 1971-1988 (Preorder 09/01/26)

Label: Decca Classics - 4854355 - 0028948543557
Format: 46 CD Boxset
Country: UK
Released: 9th Jan 2026
Genre: Classical
Style: Classical

Description
Opera recordings made from 1971 to 1988 constitute the third and final volume of this edition (released October 2024). Here we hear Sutherland singing all four dolls in one of the most colourful recordings ever made of Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann (1971), as well as a role she never sang on stage but has gone on to become one of the most celebrated of all operatic recordings in history: Turandot with Luciano Pavarotti and Montserrat Caballé, Zubin Mehta conducting (1972). Verdi is showcased with Rigoletto, Traviata, Trovatore (including the ballet music sequence), Ernani and Masnadieri, Bellini with Puritani, Sonnambula and Norma. This chapter in Dame Joan Sutherland’s in Decca’s operatic legacy closes with Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur (1988).

Tracklist

CDs 1-2

VERDI: Rigoletto

RICHARD BONYNGE

 

CDs 3-4

DONIZETTI: Lucia di Lammermoor

RICHARD BONYNGE

 

CDs 5-6

OFFENBACH: Les Contes d’Hoffmann

RICHARD BONYNGE

 

CDs 7-8

PUCCINI: Turandot

ZUBIN MEHTA

 

CDs 9-11

BELLINI: I puritani (1973-74 digital recording)

RICHARD BONYNGE

 

CDs 12-13

DONIZETTI: Maria Stuarda

RICHARD BONYNGE

 

CDs 14-15

MASSENET: Esclarmonde

RICHARD BONYNGE

 

CD 16

LEONI: L’Oracolo; The Prayer and the Sword

RICHARD BONYNGE

 

CDs 17-18

VERDI: Il trovatore

RICHARD BONYNGE

 

CDs 19-20

Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia

RICHARD BONYNGE

 

CD 21

LEHÁR: The Merry Widow (highlights)

RICHARD BONYNGE

 

CD 22

PUCCINI: Suor Angelica; Vissi d’arte (Tosca)

RICHARD BONYNGE

 

CDs 23-24

MASSENET: Le Roi de Lahore

RICHARD BONYNGE

 

CDs 25-26

VERDI: La traviata

RICHARD BONYNGE

 

CDs 27-28

BELLINI: La sonnambula (1980 digital recording)

RICHARD BONYNGE

 

CDs 29-30

GAY: The Beggar’s Opera

RICHARD BONYNGE

 

CDs 31-32

VERDI: I masnadieri

RICHARD BONYNGE

 

CDs 33-34

THOMAS: Hamlet

RICHARD BONYNGE

 

CDs 35-37

BELLINI: Norma (1984 digital recording)

RICHARD BONYNGE

 

CDs 38-39

HANDEL: Rodelinda

RICHARD BONYNGE

 

CDs 40-42

DONIZETTI: Anna Bolena

RICHARD BONYNGE

 

CDs 43-44

VERDI: Ernani

RICHARD BONYNGE

 

CDs 45-46

CILEA: Adriana Lecouvreur

RICHARD BONYNGE