“IL TROVATORE : Verdi
Original Air Date: 12/19/1987
Cast: Bonynge; Pavarotti, Sutherland, Verrett, Nucci, De Grandis
Media: MOD Audio SID.17440105 Tags: Archive; 2017, Pavarotti, Verdi
This is Sutherland’s farewell Met operatic appearance (she and Bonynge do a piano recital 15 months later on the Met stage) and while none of her colleagues are in the first flush of youth either, with the exception of the always poor De Grandis, they still have enough pistons firing to make this Trovatore a stirring afternoon.
This is Verrett’s penultimate Met broadcast (her last is a late Samson in 1990 with Domingo) and shows that whatever the age, Azucena was a great part for her.”