Joan Sutherland, one of the most acclaimed sopranos of the 20th century, a singer of such power and range that she was crowned ''La Stupenda,'' died on Sunday at her home in Switzerland, near Montreux. She was 83. Her death was confirmed by her close friend the mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne. It was Italy's notoriously picky critics who dubbed the...
Joan Sutherland, the 81-year-old soprano who retired from performing nearly 20 years ago, suffered a fall in the garden of her Swiss home last week and broke both legs, CBC News reported. Her husband, the conductor Richard Bonynge, told reporters that Ms. Sutherland, right, was expected to be hospitalized for eight weeks. The couple were to travel...

During the triumphant premiere of Bellini's ''Sonnambula'' in 1831, both singers and audience members wept in the second act, the Russian composer Glinka reported. There were no meltdowns during the Opera Orchestra of New York's concert performance on Wednesday, but plenty of emotion onstage and off accompanied some fine singing. Ferruccio...