Joan Sutherland sings her best Leonora of Il Trovatore with Pavarotti (cleaned sound)

Dame Joan Sutherland in one of her first interpretations of Leonora in Verdi’s Il Trovatore, sung in San Francisco, 1975. In my opinion this is her best recorded Leonora (certainly better than the studio one!), the voice still fresher and clearer, but also very lush, vibrant and dark. Her immaculate musicality and fearless skills are demonstrated in the wonderful dignified way in which she sings the aria “D’amor sull’ali rosee“, and the vigorous bravura of “Tu vedrai“. Luciano Pavarotti sings a brilliant Manrico with her in the Miserere.