Since Mark Louttit mentioned Joan Sutherland's passing on the Yahoo horn list, I uploaded to my web site a high-quality mp3 (an oxymoron if ever there was one) of her singing the Vilia-Lied from the Merry Widow.
http://www.ampexguy.com/kiri/sutherland.vilia.mp3 You may have to copy & paste the URL into your browser for it to work. This is from the San Francisco fall opera season in October 1981. The conductor is--who else?--Richard Bonynge. IMHO, this is fairly late in the day for Sutherland, but I do not have anything earlier, or more central to her repertoire, transferred. Those who desire/require more information about the performance should see the San Francisco Opera archives, whence comes my information: http://archive.sfopera.com/reports/rptOpera-id741.pdf The mp3 derives from my 24 bit, 88.2 KHz transfer of an off-the-air recording I made fall 1981, at the time of the original broadcast. Howard Sanner [email protected] _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
