- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: IMP0053
Sutherland, Joan Alston
(1926 – 2010)- Born 7 November, 1926, Sydney New South Wales Australia
- Died 10 October, 2010, Montreux Switzerland
- Occupation Opera singer
Summary
Dame Joan Sutherland was appointed as a Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 30 December 1978 for services to the performing arts. She was also appointed to the Order of Merit in 1991 for Services to opera and singing. In 1983 she was described as, ‘quite simply, the greatest and most beloved singer in the world today’. She is known universally, and accurately, as ‘La Stupenda’.
Events
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1947 - 1947
Debut as Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (Sydney)
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1951 - 1951
Moved to London
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1952 - 1952
Joined Covent Garden and remained resident soprano for seven years
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1959 - 1959
Won international fame with debut as Lucia di Lammermoor (Convent Garden)
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1986 - 1986
Published: The Joan Sutherland Album (w. R Bonynge)
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1997 - 1997
Published: A Prima Donna’s Progress : the autobiography of Joan Sutherland
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2046 - 2046
Married: Richard Bonynge.
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2026 - 2026
Born: Daughter of McDonald and Muriel Alston Sutherland
Published resources
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Resource
- Trove: Sutherland, Joan (-2010), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-614081
- Dame Joan Sutherland: La Stupenda, http://www.cygnet.co.uk/thedame/
- Book
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Resource Section
- DAME JOAN SUTHERLAND, 2002, http://www.abc.net.au/btn/australians/sutherla.htm
- Australian Performing Arts (PROMPT) Collection: Dame Joan Sutherland / Richard Bonynge, http://www.nla.gov.au/collect/prompt/sutherland.html
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Site Exhibition
- Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html
- Newspaper Article