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Joan Sutherland, ‘voice of the century,’ dies (AP)

October 11th, 2010

FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 10, 1987 file picture, Dame Joan Sutherland, left, and Luciano Pavarotti sing a scene from Gaetano Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. 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, died Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010 at 83. (AP Photo/Osamu Honda, File)AP - Joan Sutherland’s radiant soprano stretched effortlessly over more than three octaves, with a purity of tone that made her one of the most celebrated opera singers of all time.


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