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The Met in March 2022, Listener's Choice: Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti from 1973

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Published February 18, 2022 at 10:36 AM EST

Black & white photo (c.1960s) of Joan Sutherland & Luciano Pavarotti taking their bows on stage with opera cast behind them — Soprano Joan Sutherland and tenor Luciano Pavarotti

Soprano Joan Sutherland and tenor Luciano Pavaroti had a unique lifelong relationship that was seldom anything less than an experience of a lifetime. They not only had phenomenal voices, but they used them to touch people's hearts in their own unique way.

3/5 Listeners’ Choice: Great Met Broadcasts – Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment (1973 with Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti in his MET debut; Richard Bonynge conducts)

3/12 R. Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos
Lise Davidsen (Ariadne), Brandon Jovanovich (Bacchus), Brenda Rae (Zerbinetta), Sean Michael Plumb (Harlequin), Isabel Leonard (Composer), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Music Master), Sir Thomas Allen (The Major-Domo)

3/19 Handel: Rodelinda
Elza van den Heever (Rodelinda), Iestyn Davies (Bertarido), Paul Appleby (Grimoaldo), Jamie Barton (Eduige), Anthony Roth Costanzo (Unulfo), Adam Plachetka (Garibaldo)

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3/26 (12pm) Verdi: Don Carlos –Broadcast Premiere of French-language version – Live in HD
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