Title: Sutherland, Bellini would be ashamed of you!!!
Product review: Sutherland's diction is horrible. Her voice is droopy. Her phrasing is poor. Her drama is nearly non-existent. Her interpolated high notes unfairly hijack this opera from the other singers. Where is Sills' studio "Norma" with Shirley Verrett when you need it? I hope EMI releases it on CD very soon.Also, everyone keeps ranting about how Sutherland and Horne sing everything in the original keys. Keep in mind that the tones have gone up one full tone since Bellini's time. So today's key of F has the same tessitura as the key of G in Bellini's time. That means that both Callas and Caballé, singing "Casta diva" in today's key of F, are actually singing the aria in its ORIGINAL TESSITURA. This means that Sutherland and Horne are actually singing ABOVE the original keys (tessituras). It is wrong of them to show off like that. Upward transpositions done to show off one's singing technique are just signs of lacking taste.
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