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From MrJazzmeaux
I heard Sutherland about a dozen times and one of the great mysteries to me was that live her voice was so huge and round and none of her recordings ever captured it. It was enormous and I can only say that those who say she didn't have a big voice, or that it was light, never heard her live. When as Lohengrin says, she unleashed the Kraken, it did feel as if this wall of sound was going to pick you up out of the seat and hurl you against the back wall. It was truly amazing. Sometimes she'd even pour volume and resonance into the low notes and I'd think 'god where did that come from?' But then she'd rein it back in, maybe scared of Richard's reprimands. She could have done so much more with it. It was an odd mix though, such an amazing upper mid and top and an often unsupported mediocre low end.

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