Background
Sutherland, Dame Joan Alston was born on November 7, 1926 in Sydney, Australia. Daughter of McDonald Sutherland.
Sutherland, Dame Joan Alston was born on November 7, 1926 in Sydney, Australia. Daughter of McDonald Sutherland.
Student, Royal College Music, London, 1951. Mus D (honorary), University Syndey, 1984. Mus D (honorary), Oxford University, 1992.
Appeared concert and oratorio performances, Australia. Appeared in: opera Judith, Syndey Conservatory of Music. Debut Covent Garden in Magic Flute, 1952, Die Zauberflöte, 1952.
Italian debut in Handel's Alcina, Teatro la Fenice, Venice, 1960. Bellini's Puritani, Glyndebourne Festival, Sussex, England, 1960. Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda, La Scala, 1961, Rossini's Semiramide, La Scala, 1962.
Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots, La Scala, 1962, New York debut, Carnegie Hall, 1961. Opera debut Lucia, 1961. Opened Sutherland-Williamson Opera Company tour, Australia, 1965.
Appeared: Handel's Julius Caesar, Hamburg Opera, 1969. Bellini's Norma, Metropolitan Opera, 1970. Opened, Lyric Opera Chicago with, Semiramide, 1971.
San Francisco Opera with, Norma, 1972. San Francisco Opera with Trovatore, 1975. Metropolitan Opera with I Puritani, 1976.
Vancouver Opera with Le Roi de Lahore, 1977. Premiered new production, Metropolitan Opera in Tales of Hoffmann, 1973. First production in American in eighty years Esclarmonde, Massenet, San Fancisco Opera, 1974.
Author: (with Richard Bonynge) The Joan Sutherland Album, 1986. A Prima Donna's Progress, 1997. Actress: various films.
Married Richard Bonynge, 1954.