/tags/joan-sutherland joan sutherland en-US Copyright Fri, 18 Dec 2020 11:34:00 GMT /classical-101/2020-12-18/a-front-row-center-christmas When I discovered that Christmas 2020 falls on a Friday I thought, either go all out for a Christmas special and save the opera for the following week, or… Fri, 18 Dec 2020 11:34:00 GMT /classical-101/2020-12-18/a-front-row-center-christmas Christopher Purdy /show/classical-101-by-request/2017-03-22/mary-hoffman-archive-joan-sutherland Mary Rousculp Hoffman became program director of ÐÇ¿ÕÎÞÏÞ´«Ã½-FM in 1966.By the time she retired over 20 years later, Mary had interviewed many of the world's… Wed, 22 Mar 2017 18:27:43 GMT /show/classical-101-by-request/2017-03-22/mary-hoffman-archive-joan-sutherland Christopher Purdy /classical-101/2015-10-15/luciano-pavarotti-at-80 Luciano Pavarotti would have turned 80 on October 12 of this year. He died in 2007.It was March of 1976. I took the bus from Boston down to Port Authority… Thu, 15 Oct 2015 15:57:48 GMT /classical-101/2015-10-15/luciano-pavarotti-at-80 Christopher Purdy /classical-101/2009-05-18/my-date-with-dame-joan-sutherland Laugh all you want, but as I get older it is more in my nature to be shy and introverted. But I got over that long enough in the winter of 2006. It was… Mon, 18 May 2009 19:09:42 GMT /classical-101/2009-05-18/my-date-with-dame-joan-sutherland admin