Joan Sutherland - The Decca Recordings Volume 3: The Operas 1971-1988
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Joan Sutherland

The Decca Recordings Volume 3: The Operas 1971-1988

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Release date: 9 January, 2026

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).

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