Joan Sutherland

Great Performances

The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfo...

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sun...

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from Octob...

The Kennedy Center Honors

The Kennedy Center Honors is an annual honor given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contri...

Legends

The story of the big names that have shaped the musical genres, plus an occasional stopgap for the new rock 'n'...

The Bell Telephone Hour

“The Bell Telephone Hour” was a musical variety show that aired on “NBC” TV from 12 January 1959 to 14 June 196...

Who's Afraid of Opera?

Three zany puppets bring to life our greatest opera treasures, as Joan Sutherland, the world’s most famous sopr...

Lakmé

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

Dad and Dave: On Our Selection

Tired of local corruption and the harshness of his life a bushman demonstrates the true Aussie spirit and decid...

Lucia di Lammermoor

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

Maria Callas: At Covent Garden, 1962 and 1964

Maria Callas’ legendary live performances from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, from 1962 and 1964 celebra...

The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni

Imbuing the familiar Don Juan myth with a captivating combination of comedy, seductiveness, danger, and damnati...

Anna Bolena

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

A Toast to Melbourne

Using archival film, aerial photography, stills, prints and contemporary footage, this documentary presents the...

Franco Zeffirelli: Directing from Life

Franco Zeffirelli passed away on 15th June 2019. Chris Hunt's biography explores how Zeffirelli's sense of dram...

An Evening with Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti

Opera greats Luciano Pavarotti and Joan Sutherland -- one of the most acclaimed tenors and one of the most belo...

Salzburg Marionette Theatre: The Tales of Hoffmann

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

Rigoletto - Verdi

Die Fledermaus

After the Viennese premiere, the Fledermaus (the bat) conquered the world. It is one of the few operettas that...

Sutherland Pavarotti Bonynge Gala Concert - Sydney 1983

Il trovatore

Elijah Moshinsky's production of Verdi's "Il trovatore", filmed live at the Australian Opera in 1983. Joan Suth...

Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia

The Australian Opera Chorus & The Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra, Richard Bonynge Lucrezia Borgia, infamous noble...

La Fille du Régiment

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

Norma

Dame Joan Sutherland considered Norma, the lead character of Bellini’s bel canto melodrama, one of her favourit...

Lehár: The Merry Widow

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

Bellini: Norma

Bellini's opera as presented at the Opera Australia in Sidney in 1991.

Dialogues of the Carmelites

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

Maria Stuarda

Donizetti's opera as film.

La Stupenda

Dubbed ‘La Stupenda’ thirty years ago by an Italian critic, Dame Joan Sutherland and her husband Richard Bonyng...

Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots

Joan Sutherland's farewell performance to the operatic stage offsets this story of the St. Bartholomew's Day ma...

Lucia di Lammermoor

Donizetti wrote Lucia di Lammermoor in 1835, when he was reaching the peak of his reputation as an opera compos...