LETTERS*

Dame Joan: a defence
I was most amused to read in “What’s the score?” (News Weekly, March 11, 2017) of Dame Joan Sutherland, national musical treasure, known as La Stupenda throughout her 30-year international operatic career, and regarded by many as the voice of the century, being referred to by Dr David James as “good but the same as the score”!
One thing is for sure: when she sang Handel’s Let the bright Seraphim at Covent Garden in 1958 and ended…

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