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Published October 11, 2010, 12:00 AM

Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti (1987)


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 in January 1987. 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)
Read the article: UPDATE: Joan Sutherland celebrated opera soprano, dies at age 83