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Aida
Metropolitan Opera House, Sat, April 3, 1976
Debut : Ljiljana Molnar-Talajic
Aida (829)
Giuseppe Verdi | Antonio Ghislanzoni
- Aida
- Ljiljana Molnar-Talajic [Debut]
- Radam?s
- James McCracken
- Amneris
- Mignon Dunn
- Amonasro
- Louis Quilico
- Ramfis
- Jerome Hines
- King
- Richard T. Gill
- Messenger
- Charles Anthony
- Priestess
- Marcia Baldwin
- Dance
- Susana Aschieri
- Dance
- William Badolato
- Dance
- Jack Hertzog
- Dance
- Naomi Marritt
- Dance
- Stanley Perryman
- Dance
- Ellen Rievman
- Conductor
- James Levine
Review 1:
Review of Irving Kolodin in the Saturday
In the later "Aida"s of the Metropolitan Opera's season, New York made the acquaintance of a newish dramatic soprano from Yugoslavia named Ljiljana Molnar-Talajic. By "newish" is meant that she has previously appeared (also in Philadelphia), and with several of Europe's leading opera companies. She is somewhat short and of stocky build, but there is no doubt that she is, truly, a dramatic soprano, with a bright, strong voice capable of piercing Verdi's brassiest instrumentation. She can also reduce it skillfully to the dimensions required for such phrases as "Numi, pieta" - (in two different circumstances). What she cannot, at present, do is keep all the vowels in Italian from sounding like "e." This gives her verbal enunciation a somewhat exotic character amid the more correct practices of what happened to be an all-North American cast.
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- James Levine [Conductor]
- Ljiljana Molnar-Talajic [Aida]
- James McCracken [Radam?s]
- Mignon Dunn [Amneris]
- Louis Quilico [Amonasro]
- Jerome Hines [Ramfis]
- Richard T. Gill [King]
- Charles Anthony [Messenger]
- Marcia Baldwin [Priestess]
- Susana Aschieri [Dance]
- William Badolato [Dance]
- Jack Hertzog [Dance]
- Naomi Marritt [Dance]
- Stanley Perryman [Dance]
- Ellen Rievman [Dance]