Fausto Cleva conducted a well integrated and balanced performance which was mainly on a superior musical level, and had a notable dramatic impact in the great semi-final scene. Robert Nagy, singing the Messenger for the first time in this house, was in good vocal form for his relatively few measures Helen Vanni was the unseen priestess. Merrill was mainly in good voice in a sympathetic impersonation which did not make Amonasro overly barbaric Mr. Bergonzi's Radames was vocally straightforward and generally engaging there was more fluency of tone after a not altogether effortless "Celeste Aida." The range of color was respectable, not unusually wide: the dramatic characterization satisfying while not unusually vivid. Its potential in generous span of volume and musical hues were revealed in part in the earlier acts, despite some variability of equality and transitory hints of vocal tension. Listen on the radio at 90.1 FM, on the popular WRTI Mobile App, on your favorite smart speaker, or stream from our website at The full schedule is here. Miss Dalis' Amneris was distinct in personality - and revealed an unusually - promising voice. Join us on Saturdays at 1 PM for the entire 2021/2022 season of opera broadcasts starting on December 4th at 1 PM. Her singing also conveyed varied emotional atmospheres of the character for the eye, her Aida had a definite and a persuasive personality. Her voice revealed a good range of volume and also of color, although in this respect its assets were not always fully revealed. Miss Curtis-Verna was already acquainted with the role of Aida, which she had sung both in Italy and in this country, and her impersonation Saturday told of a sympathetic understanding of its musical and dramatic aspects. Mary Curtis-Verna replaced Renata Tebaldi, who had withdrawn from the cast owing to her mother's death yesterday morning, in the title role of Aida, while Irene Dalis' first appearance here as Amneris was as originally scheduled, with Carlo Bergonzi as Radames, Robert Merrill as Amonasro, Giorgio Tozzi as Ramfis and Louis Sgarro as the Egyptian king.īoth singers had made their Metropolitan debuts in other Verdi operas last winter. A new Aida and a new Amneris, both Americans, sang at the Metropolitan Opera House Saturday afternoon when Verdi's most often heard work had its first performance of the season.
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