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, ...

Joan Sutherland, considered by many to be the greatest soprano of her generation, died yesterday at the age of 83 in Switzerland. Sutherland performed with the San Diego Opera a total of seven times ...

LONDON — 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 ...

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 praise ...

Australian opera star Joan Sutherland, who for more than four decades of singing was known as "La Stupenda" for the power of her coloratura singing, has died at age 83. From NPR News, it's ALL THINGS ...

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 ...

The family of the Joan Sutherland has announced that the opera star died at her home in Switzerland. She was 83. Sutherland was recognized as one of the great coloraturas of the twentieth century, ...

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 ...