The Decca Recordings Volume 3: The Operas 1971-1988

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).