Product Details

• Format: Black & White, Classical, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Video Artists Int'l
• VHS Release Date: August 29, 2000
• Run Time: 50 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00004WC83
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #516,754 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW!, August 9, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Joan Sutherland - The Complete Bell Telephone Hour Performances Vol. 2: 1961-1968 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

To hear Sutherland as she should have been heard!! The greatest coloratura of our time... Not with a microphone right in her mouth! You can feel the sheer weight and power of her voice in these performances..minus the bad "casta diva" The gem of the set is in the final mad scene from "Hamlet"...I think that piece is the greatest display of coloratura ever recorded in a video..bar none..

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars blown away, June 14, 2001

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robert harless (West Palm Beach, Florida United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Joan Sutherland - The Complete Bell Telephone Hour Performances Vol. 2: 1961-1968 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

After being a Sutherland fan for years and being fortunate enough to have seen her final performance of Norma, this takes me back to PRIMO Sutherland. Not a note out of place, unbeleivable coloratura. The only thing that can not be appreciated is the sheer size of the voice... no little peanut whistle sounds here. The Met Primma Donnas of today would do well to take a peak at this. They can't hold a candle to these performances.. BRAVO DAME JOAN!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bravissima, diva, March 5, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Joan Sutherland - The Complete Bell Telephone Hour Performances Vol. 2: 1961-1968 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is really Sutherland the way she was when she was the bar none most stupendous coloratura specialist of the last century. She had all the notes...up the E natural above high C. And every aspect of the coloratura's art is at her disposal. Of course, we all know that she had most sparkling gorgeous soprano voice ever. Just listen to the fantastic mad scene from Lucia...this one is even better than her two cd's she did for Decca, and that's saying a lot. Anyone who says Sutherland can't act should purchase this and eat his or her words.