[Met Performance] CID:201190



Aida
Metropolitan Opera House, Sat, February 6, 1965




Aida (710)
Giuseppe Verdi | Antonio Ghislanzoni
Aida
Martina Arroyo

Radamès
Flaviano Labò

Amneris
Nell Rankin

Amonasro
Mario Sereni

Ramfis
Jerome Hines

King
Louis Sgarro

Messenger
Robert Nagy

Priestess
Mary Ellen Pracht

Dance
Katharyn Horne

Dance
Edith Jerell

Dance
Harry Jones

Dance
Rhodie Jorgenson

Dance
Donald Mahler

Dance
Jan Mickens


Conductor
William Steinberg







Review 1:

Irving Kolodin in the Saturday Review of Literature
Arroyo

Mme. Nilsson 's unwillingness to sing a Saturday-night Aida after her midweek Salome (with another to come shortly thereafter) provided an unexpected opportunity for Martina Arroyo to resume her Metropolitan career after an absence of two seasons. The strides she has made in the interim were reflected in the assurance and conviction she brought to this sizable undertaking. There is, as yet, more power than finesse in her treatment of Verdi's vocal line, but also an admirable awareness of Aida's dramatic place in the whole. She earned an audience response to merit further encouragement of her outstanding vocal abilities. There was some question, at times, whether the conductor was William Steinberg, or Flaviano Labo, the Radames.



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