Verdi: Aida
Maria Callas (Aida), Kurt Baum (Radamès), Giulietta Simionato (Amneris), Jess Walters (Amonasro), Giulio Neri (Ramfis), Michael Langdon (Il Re di Egitto), Joan Sutherland (Una Sacerdotessa), Hector Thomas (Un Messaggero)
Covent Garden Opera Chorus & Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli
it was in many ways a performance that outshines all [Callas's] studio recordings, with the stage atmosphere well caught. Barbirolli too is a winningly warm and sympathetic Verdian...Simionato...
Verdi: Aida
Maria Callas (Aida), Kurt Baum (Radamès), Giulietta Simionato (Amneris), Jess Walters (Amonasro), Giulio Neri (Ramfis), Michael Langdon (Il Re di Egitto), Joan Sutherland (Una Sacerdotessa), Hector Thomas (Un Messaggero)
Covent Garden Opera Chorus & Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli
Purchase product
it was in many ways a performance that outshines all [Callas's] studio recordings, with the stage atmosphere well caught. Barbirolli too is a winningly warm and sympathetic Verdian...Simionato...
About
Recorded live 1953
Contents and tracklist
- Maria Callas (Aida), Kurt Baum (Radamès), Giulietta Simionato (Amneris), Jess Walters (Amonasro), Giulio Neri (Ramfis), Michael Langdon (Il Re di Egitto), Joan Sutherland (Una Sacerdotessa), Hector Thomas (Un Messaggero)
- Covent Garden Opera Chorus & Orchestra
- Sir John Barbirolli
Awards and reviews
2010 edition
it was in many ways a performance that outshines all [Callas's] studio recordings, with the stage atmosphere well caught. Barbirolli too is a winningly warm and sympathetic Verdian...Simionato is a superb Amneris, searingly powerful...[Sutherland sounds] very distant but perfectly identifiable.
