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Joan Sutherland

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It was the discipline of quiet that kept me in shape. I did very little vocalizing. I always read through the score the day of the performance, no matter how well I thought I knew the role, because there was always something in the previous performance that I had missed.

Joan SutherlandInterview, Classical Singer magazine ('The Joy of Singing'), at Cardiff Singer of the World

discipline practice preparation

I lusted to sing Norma after being in those performances with Callas. But I knew that I could not sing it the way she did.

Joan SutherlandInterview, The New York Times, 1998

admiration ambition humility

On her husband, the conductor Richard Bonynge

Richard had decided long before I agreed with him that I was a coloratura.

Joan SutherlandProfile, The New York Times Magazine, 1961

discovery partnership vocation