[Met Performance] CID:152940



Aida
Metropolitan Opera House, Tue, February 21, 1950 Matinee





Aida (519)
Giuseppe Verdi | Antonio Ghislanzoni
Aida
Gertrude Ribla

Radamès
Ramon Vinay

Amneris
Margaret Harshaw

Amonasro
Frank Valentino

Ramfis
Jerome Hines

King
Philip Kinsman

Messenger
Leslie Chabay

Priestess
Thelma Votipka

Dance
Lorraine Ammerman

Dance
Barbara Hausler

Dance
Audrey Keane

Dance
Elissa Minet

Dance
Leon Varkas


Conductor
Emil Cooper







Review 1:

Review of Cecil Smith in Musical America

In the third of the student matinees sponsored by the Metropolitan Opera Guild, one group travelled from Massachusetts to hear Verdi’s “Aida,” which received its fourth representation of the season. Gertrude Ribla sang the title role. In far better voice than three nights earlier, when she had sung the part for the first time this year, Miss Ribla duplicated her success of a year ago, singing with dramatic intensity and technical ease, and acting with continuous absorption in the emotional realities of Aida’s harried career. Ramon Vinay joined this year’s “Aida” lists as Radames, and revealed various niceties of phrasing in a performance that was generally lacking in climatic impact. A want of concentration and focus left his highest tones without adequate carrying power, so that he was most successful in passages that lay in the middle register. Francesco Valentino, appearing as Amonasro for the first time this season, manifested musical sensitivity and a good instinct for characterization. The other participants were Margaret Harshaw, Jerome Hines, Philip Kinsman, Leslie Chabay, and Thelma Votipka. Emil Cooper conducted.



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