Joan Sutherland
Roles
Sutherland performed live the following complete roles.

Joan Sutherland

Section Title: Roles
Table Section Text: Sutherland performed live the following complete roles.

First performance	Composer	Work	Role	House	Conductor	Director	Remarks

20 June 1947	Handel	Acis and Galatea	Galatea	Eastwood Masonic Hall, Sydney	Concert performance

30 August 1947	Purcell	Dido and Aeneas	Dido	Lyceum Club, Sydney	Concert performance

15 July 1950	Handel	Samson	Dalila and Israelite woman	Sydney Town Hall	Concert performance; Sutherland made her professional role debut as the Israelite woman on 14 October 1958

9 July 1951	Goossens	Judith	Judith	Sydney Conservatorium of Music	Goossens	Sutherland's first complete staged opera

16 July 1952	Puccini	Il tabarro	Giorgetta	Parry Theatre, RCM	Richard Austin	Peter Rice/Pauline Elliot

28 October 1952	Mozart	The Magic Flute	First lady	ROH, Covent Garden	Pritchard	Messel	Sutherland's professional debut

3 November 1952	Verdi	Aida	High Priestess	ROH, Covent Garden	Barbirolli	Cruddas

8 November 1952	Bellini	Norma	Clotilde	ROH, Covent Garden	Gui	Barlow

29 December 1952	Verdi	Un ballo in maschera	Amelia	ROH, Covent Garden	Pritchard	Barlow/Stone	Sutherland's first leading role

24 February 1953	Mozart	The Marriage of Figaro	Countess Almaviva	ROH tour, Edinburgh	J Gibson	Gerard

13 May 1953	Strauss	Elektra	Overseer	ROH, Covent Garden	Kleiber	Lambert

11 August 1953	Britten	Gloriana	Lady Rich	ROH tour, Bulawayo

19 October 1953	Wagner	Die Walküre	Helmwige	ROH, Covent Garden	Stiedry	Pemberton

2 November 1953	Bizet	Carmen	Frasquita	ROH, Covent Garden	Pritchard	Wakhévitch

4 February 1954	Verdi	Aida	Aida	ROH, Covent Garden	E Young	Cruddas

23 March 1954	Weber	Der Freischütz	Agathe	ROH, Covent Garden	Downes	Furse

30 April 1954	Piccinni	La buona figliuola	Lucinda	Mackerras	BBC radio broadcast

27 May 1954	Wagner	Der Ring des Nibelungen	Woglinde and Woodbird	ROH, Covent Garden	Stiedry	Hurry	Sutherland also sang the role of Helmwige, which she had sung previously; the other dates of the cycle were 2, 8, and 17 June

17 November 1954	Offenbach	Les contes d'Hoffmann	Antonia	ROH, Covent Garden	Downes	Wakhévitch

27 January 1955	Tippett	The Midsummer Marriage	Jenifer	ROH, Covent Garden	Pritchard	Hepworth	World premiere; Sutherland created the role

28 February 1955	Offenbach	Les contes d'Hoffmann	Giulietta	ROH tour, Glasgow	Downes	Wakhévitch

19 June 1955	Offenbach	Les contes d'Hoffmann	Olympia	ROH, Covent Garden	Downes	Wakhévitch

30 September 1955	Weber	Euryanthe	Euryanthe	Stiedry	BBC radio broadcast

30 October 1955	Bizet	Carmen	Micaela	ROH, Covent Garden	Downes	Wakhévitch

11 March 1956	Mozart	La clemenza di Tito	Vitellia	Pritchard	BBC radio broadcast

10 November 1956	Mozart	The Magic Flute	Pamina	ROH, Covent Garden	J Gibson	Messel

28 January 1957	Wagner	Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg	Eva	ROH, Covent Garden	Kubelík	Wakhévitch

19 March 1957	Handel	Alcina	Alcina	St Pancras Town Hall	Farncombe

8 June 1957	Verdi	Rigoletto	Gilda	ROH, Covent Garden	Downes	Gellner

5 July 1957	Mozart	Der Schauspieldirektor	Mme Hertz	Glyndebourne Festival Opera	Balkwill	Rice

16 August 1957	Scarlatti	Mitridate Eupatore	Laodice	Appia	BBC radio broadcast

8 September 1957	Donizetti	Emilia di Liverpool	Emilia	Pritchard	BBC radio broadcast

21 December 1957	Verdi	Otello	Desdemona	ROH, Covent Garden	Downes	Wakhévitch

16 January 1958	Poulenc	Dialogues of the Carmelites	Mme Lidoine	ROH, Covent Garden	Kubelík	Wakhévitch

24 May 1958	Haydn	Applausus Musicus	Temperantia	Newstone	BBC radio broadcast

26 July 1958	Mozart	Don Giovanni	Donna Anna	Vancouver Opera	Goldschmidt	Maximowna

17 February 1959	Donizetti	Lucia di Lammermoor	Lucia	ROH, Covent Garden	Serafin	Zeffirelli	This performance marked the beginning of Sutherland's international career

24 June 1959	Handel	Rodelinda	Rodelinda	Sadler's Wells Theatre	Farncombe	Pidcock

8 January 1960	Verdi	La traviata	Violetta Valéry	ROH, Covent Garden	Santi	Fedorovitch

24 May 1960	Bellini	I puritani	Elvira	Glyndebourne Festival Opera	Gui	Heeley

19 October 1960	Bellini	La sonnambula	Amina	ROH, Covent Garden	Serafin	Sanjust

21 February 1961	Bellini	Beatrice di Tenda	Beatrice	New York Town Hall	Rescigno	Concert performance; Sutherland first performed this role on stage on 10 May 1961

4 January 1962	Mozart	The Magic Flute	The Queen of the Night	ROH, Covent Garden	Klemperer	Eisler

28 May 1962	Meyerbeer	Les Huguenots	Maguerite de Valois	La Scala	Gavazzeni	Nicola Benois

17 December 1962	Rossini	Semiramide	Semiramide	La Scala	Santini

20 June 1963	Handel	Giulio Cesare	Cleopatra	Sadler's Wells Theatre	Farncombe	Warre

17 October 1963	Bellini	Norma	Norma	Vancouver Opera	Bonynge	McLance/Mess

9 March 1965	Gounod	Faust	Marguerite	Connecticut Opera	Bonynge	Rome/Brooks van Horne

2 June 1966	Donizetti	La fille du régiment	Marie	ROH, Covent Garden	Bonynge	Anni/Escoffier

10 April 1967	Delibes	Lakmé	Lakmé	Seattle Opera	Bonynge

21 May 1967	Haydn	L'anima del filosofo	Euridice	Theater an der Wien	Bonynge	Ludwig

12 November 1971	Donizetti	Maria Stuarda	Maria Stuarda	San Francisco Opera	Bonynge	Pizzi

26 October 1972	Donizetti	Lucrezia Borgia	Lucrezia	Vancouver Opera	Bonynge	Varona

14 September 1973	J.Strauss II	Die Fledermaus	Rosalinde	San Francisco Opera	Bonynge

23 October 1974	Massenet	Esclarmonde	Esclarmonde	San Francisco Opera	Bonynge	Montressor

12 September 1975	Verdi	Il trovatore	Leonora	San Francisco Opera	Bonynge	Hager/Skalicki

22 April 1976	Lehár	The Merry Widow	Hanna Glavari	Vancouver Opera	Bonynge	Varona

16 July 1977	Puccini	Suor Angelica	Suor Angelica	Sydney Opera House	Bonynge	Digby

23 September 1977	Massenet	Le roi de Lahore	Sita	Vancouver Opera	Bonynge	Mariani

4 July 1979	Mozart	Idomeneo	Electra	Sydney Opera House	Bonynge	Truscott

2 July 1980	Verdi	I masnadieri	Amalia	Sydney Opera House	Bonynge	Lees/Stennett

22 May 1983	Cilea	Adriana Lecouvreur	Adriana	San Diego Opera	Bonynge	O'Hearn/Mess

22 June 1984	Donizetti	Anna Bolena	Anna Bolena	Canadian Opera Company, Toronto	Bonynge	Pascoe/Stennett

4 October 1985	Thomas	Hamlet	Ophélie	Canadian Opera Company, Toronto	Bonynge	Shalicki/Digby/Stennett

Sentence(s)

Joan Sutherland had the roles of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda and Lucrezia and Massenet's Esclarmonde.

final_sentence: Joan Sutherland had the roles of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda and Lucrezia and Massenet's Esclarmonde.