Joan Sutherland: The Reluctant Prima Donna - Full Cast & Crew

• 2006
• 0 hr 59 mins
• Documentary

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Having sung unnoticed at Covent Garden for seven years, Joan Sutherland's role of Lucia Di Lammermoor in Franco Zeffirelli's production saw her become an overnight sensation. The BBC broke its schedules to broadcast her performance and the Italians dubbed her 'La Stupenda'. After Callas, hers was the greatest operatic career of the late twentieth century .