Joan Sutherland

Tired of local corruption and the harshness of his life a bushman demonstrates the true Aussie spirit and decides to run for parliament

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leo McKern

Elijah Moshinsky's production of Verdi's "Il trovatore", filmed live at the Australian Opera in 1983. Joan Sutherland stars as Leonora, with Kenneth...

Genre: Music

Cast: Joan Sutherland

This telecast offers a rare opportunity to see the legendary Joan Sutherland in the role that first catapulted her to international stardom. She...

Genre: Music

Cast: Joan Sutherland

Opera Australia's 1976 production of Lakmé, an opera in three acts by Léo Delibes, with a French libretto by Edmond Gondinet and...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Joan Sutherland

Francis Poulenc's only full-length opera is firmly rooted in the post World War II era. Based on the historical events of the time of the French...

Genre: Music

Cast: Geoffrey Chard

After the Viennese premiere, the Fledermaus (the bat) conquered the world. It is one of the few operettas that are regularly performed at the major...

Genre: Music

Cast: Nancy Gustafson

Turn of the century Paris provides the glittering setting for this light hearted tale of political and amorous intrigue amidst the gaiety of Parisian...

Genre: Music

Cast: Joan Sutherland

Using archival film, aerial photography, stills, prints and contemporary footage, this documentary presents the city of Melbourne and its lifestyle....

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Cast: Barry Humphries

Dubbed ‘La Stupenda’ thirty years ago by an Italian critic, Dame Joan Sutherland and her husband Richard Bonynge talk at length about her...

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Cast: Joan Sutherland

Australian Opera Chorus and Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra production of Donizetti's opera

Genre: Music

Cast: Joan Sutherland

The Australian Opera Chorus & The Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra, Richard Bonynge Lucrezia Borgia, infamous noblewoman of the Renaissance, has...

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Cast: Joan Sutherland

King Henry VIII (Enrico VIII) of 16th century England falls in love with his queen's lady-in-waiting, Jane Seymour (Giovanna Seymour). The queen,...

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Cast: Joan Sutherland

Joan Sutherland's farewell performance to the operatic stage offsets this story of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre and the magnificence of 16th...

Genre: Music

Cast: Joan Sutherland

Opera greats Luciano Pavarotti and Joan Sutherland -- one of the most acclaimed tenors and one of the most beloved sopranos of the 20th century --...

Genre: Music

Cast: Joan Sutherland

Imbuing the familiar Don Juan myth with a captivating combination of comedy, seductiveness, danger, and damnation, Mozart created an enduring...

Genre: Music

Cast: Joan Sutherland

Dame Joan Sutherland considered Norma, the lead character of Bellini’s bel canto melodrama, one of her favourite roles. She performed the...

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Cast: Joan Sutherland

Franco Zeffirelli passed away on 15th June 2019. Chris Hunt's biography explores how Zeffirelli's sense of drama was born out of his own experience...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Powell

In Luther's beer-cellar, lusty singing extols the virtues of beer and wine. For this evening, the Muse decides to deflect the poet Hoffmann's...

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Cast: Plácido Domingo