Dame Joan Sutherland delivers a Magnificent Leonora (with the D6)

Highlighted comments from the commenters below: -From Ygor Coelho: In my opinion, this is one of her best vocal and dramatic performances in the 1980s. She sommehow sounds fresher in this 1983 performance than in other Leonora performances of hers even in the 1970s (with the notable exception of her excellent San Francisco performance in 1975). I think this role while not perfectly ideal to her late voice offers several great opportunities to show the best advantages of her voice (this act 2 finale is a particular highlight), so she wisely decided to sing it even if the voice was of course declining. Her ease and rhythmic accuracy in faster passages and in ornaments (absolutely perfect trills and much more) reveal the detailed beauty and propulsive rhythm of Verdi’s music in a way that many singers simply can’t. Her legato in “D’amor sull’ali“ is also very remarkable, demonstrating that in her good nights she could deliver a cantilena with ideal flow and evenness. Discl