On records, three of mine are Maria Callas, Joan Sutherland and Renata Scotto. Each is unique and offers a distinctive way to hear some of the greatest music the world has known.

Joan Sutherland, one of the most celebrated opera singers of all time, ... "Maria Callas was extremely nice to Joan right from the beginning," he said. "It wasn't that they were great friends.

Joan Sutherland, the famed coloratura soprano often mentioned in the same breath as her operatic contemporary Maria Callas, died Oct. 10 in Geneva after a long illness. She was 83.

Joan Sutherland's genius as a performer is almost impossible to imitate. What can be imitated, unfortunately, ... She knew that the way of Maria Callas was not her way, ...

Joan Sutherland was ... has died at 83 after a four-decade career that won her praise as the successor to legend Maria Callas. ... and she was seen by many as having taken on the mantle of Callas.

GENEVA — Joan Sutherland, ... has died at 83 after a four-decade career that won her praise as the successor to legend Maria Callas. ...

GENEVA – Joan Sutherland's husband says the late soprano never recognized her own greatness despite receiving wide public acclaim and being compared to the legendary Maria Callas. Richard ...

Joan Sutherland dies at 83; ... Building on the achievements of Maria Callas, Sutherland went on to re-establish the long-neglected bel canto (Italian for “beautiful singing”) ...

GENEVA — Joan Sutherland, ... has died at 83 after a four-decade career that won her praise as the successor to legend Maria Callas. Nicknamed “La Stupenda” ...

GENEVA -- Joan Sutherland, a former small town secretarial school student whose mastery of tone, astonishing range and vocal control vaulted her into the top echelons of opera, has died at 83 ...

The soprano Joan Sutherland said that, if you did not hear Callas before 1955, you did not hear her real voice. Whatever the case — whatever the cause — Callas suffered a vocal decline.

"La Stupdenda (aka The Stupendous One)" had four-decade career that won her praise as the successor to legend Maria Callas. Skip to Article. ... Famed soprano Joan Sutherland dies at 83.