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Sutherland: Cool cream
By R. A. PERRY
Imagine a room of Claes
Oldenberg sculpture-furniture,
made not of plastic but of in-
flated velvet of the thickest
plush; to lounge in such a room
could be compared to experi-
encing Joan Sutherland's con-
cert at Hill last night.
Joan Sutherland, ex-steno-
grapher from Sydney, Australia,
may well be the most famous
soprano in the world today; she
has certainly sung on the Ed
Sullvian show more than has
Teresa Berganza or Victoria De
Los Angeles. Her fame is well
deserved, for "La Stupenda"
without a doubt has the most
ravishingly luscious voice asnd
perhaps the most adept color-
atura technique-partly because
it has thickness at the heights-
than any living soprano. (Her
coloratura certainly astonishes
more than Popp's or D'Angelo's.)
Yet .two criticisms inevitably
creep into any discussion of
Sutherland, and they apply to
last night's enjoyable concert as
well.
One is that her articulation of
text often verges on the molas-
ses-like; after all, a Scottish
folk song should not sound as
if it were being sung in Nor-
wegian. Secondly, her dramatic
,projection of a role lacks in-
volvement; Miss Sutherland
would never be mistaken for a
Stanislavsky student.
Now there are two ways of
looking at these criticisms. One
is to say "the hell with text and
play-acting" and to admire Su-
therland's voice for its gorgeous
opulence a nd mind - boggling
technical abilities alone. You
cannot criticize a Thomas Cole
landscape for its lack of inti-
macy; in other words, to toss
away Sutherland's flaws is bas-
ically to agree with Beaumar-
chais: "That which is not worth
saying is sung."
On the other hand, to realize
the potential severity of these
flaws is to realize the deficits
of last night's recital. The flaws
were somewhat accentuated by
the fact that Sutherland chose
to avoid florid arias (save Au-
ber's "Eclat de rire," program-
med only to gain applause at the
end, and an encore) and to con-
centrate on "art songs." A r t
songs require very close textual
articulation, which Sutherland
seldom gives. A very curious
thing thus happens: the sing-
er captures the audience not by
bringing them close to the song,
but by drugging them with her
undeniably beautiful voice. One
sits in a kind of pleasant stupe-
faction, where songs roll by, all
vaguely resembling one another:
the experience is highly ambros-
ial but not musically valid.
Certain songs, like Massenet's
"Crepuscule," need to be re-
leased with a certain elan, but
Sutherland held the song in
very closely, interested not in
style or spirit, but in pure
sound. When she did become
involved in a song, the result
was splendid, and Grieg's "Sol-
veig's Lied" was most moving
in her rendition last night. At
other moments - involvement
basically hindered by having the
music before her - she sang
quite perfunctorily, as in Ros-
sini's "L'Invito." Two Delius
songs emerged beautifully; five
Scottish folk songs, best left to
folksingers, were mundane.
Husband and manager Rich-
ard Bonynge provided the in-
finitesimally minute accompa-
niements, obviously knowing his
place next to "La Stupenda."
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