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[Met Performance] CID:192030
Aida
Metropolitan Opera House, Wed, October 17, 1962
Debut : Rita Gorr
Aida (670)
Giuseppe Verdi | Antonio Ghislanzoni
Aida received twelve performances this season.
Review 1:
From the editorial review in Musical America
The following evening ("Aida," Oct. 17) was memorable ? it was! ?the credit goes first and foremost to Leontyne Price, whose singing and portrayal of the title role was perfection itself. The difficulties which plagued Miss Price's voice last season seem completely to have vanished. Her singing was effortless and the sound ravishingly beautiful. Add to this Price's consummate musicianship and phrasing, her directly-motivated, unoperatic acting and her commanding "presence," and you have the Aida ?par excellence.?
Rita Gorr, Belgian mezzo-soprano, made her Metropolitan debut as Amneris. She has a large voice that tends to be overly-brilliant and somewhat "metallic" in the high register. The fact that the quality of her voice improved as the evening went on, however, suggests that she may have been suffering (and not without cause) from first-night jitters. For her singing in the Judgment Scene she received a well-deserved ovation. Clearly she is a fine artist, who knows what she is doing vocally.
Carlo Bergonzi as Radames and Anselmo Colzani as Amonasro contributed to this feast of voices, as did the supporting cast. Nello Santi, conducting his first "Aida" at the Met, kept things together and moving admirably. About the sets, staging and choreography, the less said the better.
Search by season: 1962-63
Search by title: Aida,
Met careers
Aida
Metropolitan Opera House, Wed, October 17, 1962
Debut : Rita Gorr
Aida (670)
Giuseppe Verdi | Antonio Ghislanzoni
- Aida
- Leontyne Price
- Radam?s
- Carlo Bergonzi
- Amneris
- Rita Gorr [Debut]
- Amonasro
- Anselmo Colzani
- Ramfis
- Bonaldo Giaiotti
- King
- Louis Sgarro
- Messenger
- Robert Nagy
- Priestess
- Helen Vanni
- Dance
- Suzanne Ames
- Dance
- Nancy King
- Dance
- Lolita San Miguel
- Dance
- Thomas Andrew
- Dance
- Hubert Farrington
- Conductor
- Nello Santi
- Production
- Margaret Webster
- Designer
- Rolf G?rard
- Choreographer
- Zachary Solov
- Choreographer
- Mattlyn Gavers
- Stage Director
- Patrick Tavernia
Aida received twelve performances this season.
Review 1:
From the editorial review in Musical America
The following evening ("Aida," Oct. 17) was memorable ? it was! ?the credit goes first and foremost to Leontyne Price, whose singing and portrayal of the title role was perfection itself. The difficulties which plagued Miss Price's voice last season seem completely to have vanished. Her singing was effortless and the sound ravishingly beautiful. Add to this Price's consummate musicianship and phrasing, her directly-motivated, unoperatic acting and her commanding "presence," and you have the Aida ?par excellence.?
Rita Gorr, Belgian mezzo-soprano, made her Metropolitan debut as Amneris. She has a large voice that tends to be overly-brilliant and somewhat "metallic" in the high register. The fact that the quality of her voice improved as the evening went on, however, suggests that she may have been suffering (and not without cause) from first-night jitters. For her singing in the Judgment Scene she received a well-deserved ovation. Clearly she is a fine artist, who knows what she is doing vocally.
Carlo Bergonzi as Radames and Anselmo Colzani as Amonasro contributed to this feast of voices, as did the supporting cast. Nello Santi, conducting his first "Aida" at the Met, kept things together and moving admirably. About the sets, staging and choreography, the less said the better.
Search by season: 1962-63
Search by title: Aida,
Met careers
- Nello Santi [Conductor]
- Leontyne Price [Aida]
- Carlo Bergonzi [Radam?s]
- Rita Gorr [Amneris]
- Anselmo Colzani [Amonasro]
- Bonaldo Giaiotti [Ramfis]
- Louis Sgarro [King]
- Robert Nagy [Messenger]
- Helen Vanni [Priestess]
- Suzanne Ames [Dance]
- Nancy King [Dance]
- Lolita San Miguel [Dance]
- Thomas Andrew [Dance]
- Hubert Farrington [Dance]
- Margaret Webster [Production]
- Rolf G?rard [Designer]
- Patrick Tavernia [Stage Director]
- Zachary Solov [Choreographer]
- Mattlyn Gavers [Choreographer]