[Met Performance] CID:146690



Aida
Metropolitan Opera House, Mon, January 12, 1948




Aida (500)
Giuseppe Verdi | Antonio Ghislanzoni
Aida
Stella Roman

Radamès
Torsten Ralf

Amneris
Blanche Thebom

Amonasro
Giuseppe Valdengo

Ramfis
Nicola Moscona

King
Philip Kinsman

Messenger
Lodovico Oliviero

Priestess
Thelma Votipka

Dance
Marina Svetlova

Dance
Lorraine Ammerman

Dance
Elissa Minet

Dance
Ilona Murai

Dance
Leon Varkas


Conductor
Emil Cooper







Review 1:

Review of Quaintance Eaton in Musical America

A better than average performance was accorded the third "Aida" on Jan. 12. Its excellences were chiefly the splendid singing and acting of Giuseppe Valdengo as Amonasro and the vocalism of two women in the cast. Both Stella Roman and Blanche Thebom sang well. The latter made a stunning appearance in repose, but her gestures were often angular and awkward. The soprano's costumes are not much to boast about, but she wore a borrowed necklace which was said to date back to Cleopatra's time. Mr. Valdengo's newest role was the real news, however. It seems one of his best so far, for both in action and its voice he was an heroic, impassioned captive-king. The Nile Scene was doubly effective for his presence. Torsten Ralf was not at his best, but sang Radames with competence and some fire. His tones were not as velvety as at other times, even in this role which is far from fitting him as closely as Wagnerian ones. Philip Kinsman. Nicola Moscona, Lodovico Oliviero and Thelma Votipka had other roles, and Emil Cooper conducted.



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