"In Donizetti's tellingly dramatic opera on the conflict of Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots ... Sutherland is at her most fully dramatic ...[she] remains the most commanding of Donizetti sopranos...Richard Bonynge directs an urgent account of an unfailingly enjoyable opera. The recording is characteristically bright and full."
The Penguin Guide
"In blistering form, she [Sutherland] she does some mind-boggling acrobatics (many of them improvised) while remaining sensitive to her character... Pavarrotti as Leicester is once again instartling form, setting standards that no later tenor in the bel canto field has matched."
Rough Guide to Opera
Label: Decca
Range: Decca Grand Opera
Catalogue Number: 4254102
Barcode: 00028942541023
Release Date: 6th Jul 2010
Recording Date: 1st Jul 1975
Recording Location: Teatro Comunale, Bologna, Italy