Solti Conducting Rome Opera House Orchestra And Chorus, Price, Vickers, Gorr, Merrill, Tozzi

‎     Verdi – Aïda (Highlights)

Label:
 RCA Victor Red Seal ‎– LSC 2616, RCA Victor Red Seal ‎– LSC-2616
Format:
 Vinyl, LP, Stereo, 12", Album, 33rpm
Country:
 US
Released:
 1962
Genre:
 Classical, Stage & Screen
Style:
 Opera

Tracklist

    Act I
A1     Si: Corre Voce / Celeste Aida     
A2     Ritorna Vincitori     
    Act III
A3     Qui Radamès Verra / O Patria Mia / Cieli Mio Padre / Pur Ti Riveggo     
    Act III
B1     Nel Fiero Adunansi     
    Act IV
B2     Già I Sacerdoti Adunansi     
B3     La Fatal Pietra     

Companies, etc.

    Copyright (c) – Radio Corporation Of America
    Copyright (c) – The Decca Record Company Limited

Credits

    Baritone Vocals [Amonasro] – Giorgio Tozzi, Robert Merrill
    Chorus – Rome Opera House Chorus
    Chorus Master – Giuseppe Conca
    Composed By – Verdi
    Conductor – Georg Solti
    Liner Notes – Francis Robinson
    Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Amneris] – Rita Gorr
    Orchestra – Rome Opera House Orchestra
    Soprano Vocals [Aida] – Leontyne Price
    Tenor Vocals [Radamès] – Jon Vickers

Notes

——Cover info——

Includes a 12" book with info and notes in English and the complete libretto in Italian and English.

Selected by the Metropolitan Opera

© by Radio Corporation of America, 1962
Recorded in the Opera House, Rome, Italy

First performed at Cairo, Egypt, December 24, 1871
Italian-English Libretto: Translation © The Decca Record Company, Ltd., London

Performed in Italian

- Leontyne Price
Real Name:
Mary Violet Leontyne Price
Profile:
American operatic soprano. She was born 10 February 1927 in Laurel, Mississippi, USA.
 
- Aida is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in Egypt, it was commissioned by and first performed at Cairo's Khedivial Opera House on 24 December 1871; Giovanni Bottesini conducted after Verdi himself withdrew. Today the work holds a central place in the operatic canon, receiving performances every year around the world; at New York's Metropolitan Opera alone, Aida has been sung more than 1,100 times since 1886. Ghislanzoni's scheme follows a scenario often attributed to the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, but Verdi biographer Mary Jane Phillips-Matz argues that the source is actually Temistocle Solera.

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