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Aida
Metropolitan Opera House, Wed, March 13, 1929
Aida (341)
Giuseppe Verdi | Antonio Ghislanzoni
- Aida
- Leonora Corona
- Radam?s
- Frederick Jagel
- Amneris
- Julia Claussen
- Amonasro
- Giuseppe De Luca
- Ramfis
- Ezio Pinza
- King
- William Gustafson
- Messenger
- Giordano Paltrinieri
- Priestess
- Aida Doninelli
- Dance
- Rita De Leporte
- Conductor
- Tullio Serafin
Review 1:
Review of Leonard Liebling in the American
LEONORA CORON'S 'AIDA' REVEALS HER GREATLY IMPROVED
American singers at the Metropolitan Opera House have a way of rarely being self-satisfied. They use success as encouragement for further study and higher artistic effort. Improvement seems to be their constant ambition. Only infrequently does one of our native lyric artists stand still, granted the vocal material and singing talent sufficient to lead on to better things. To prove the point one has only to remember how few Italian or French artists even have graduated into Wagnerian ranks and how many Americans have done so after beginning their careers in the operas of the lighter schools.
These reflections crowded in upon me last evening when I heard Leonora Corona in the title role of "Aida" and noted how she had forged ahead since her "Trovatore" debut here, in security of voice and delivery, resourcefulness in nuance and repose and dignity of acting. She gave a warmly appealing performance as the Ethiopian princess and moved her hearers to demonstrations of sincere enthusiasm. Miss Corona adds to her other excellent stage qualities also comeliness of features and commanding stature.
Frederick Jagel is another home product who proved the moral of this thesis. He has appreciably broadened his conception of Radames and he throws himself and his voice into the breech with a degree of self-reliant passion that was sorely missed in his early essays at the Metropolitan. He, too, scored decisively last evening.
Julia Claussen repeated her admirably composed and fervently sung Amneris, the Ramfis and Amonasro, respectively, were Ezio Pinza and Giuseppe de Luca, and that is enough said. Tullio Serafin, always intensely in the spirit of everything he conducts, made the "Aida" score sparkly and blaze in the ideal Verdian manner.
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