AIDA

AIDA:Verdi
Original Air Date: 01/03/1970
Molinari-Pradelli; Price, Thomas, Dalis, Merrill, Macurdy
SID.19320638
This is far from the best of Price’s 6 audio broadcasts of Aida. Her first two from the old house were in 1963 – with Gorr, Bergonzi, Sereni, Siepi, under Solti in his farewell Met opera (his actual farewell is in the spring with a Verdi Requiem (also with Price, Bergonzi and Siepi and Good Friday spell from Parsifal) Price’s second broadcast is 1966 under Mehta with Tucker, Dalis, Merrill, Ghiuselev. The Solti has primacy, but would be good to hear the Mehta very much as well. Price’s other rebroadcasts are the 1967 with Bumbry, Bergonzi, Merrill, this 1970, the 1976 with Horne, Domingo, and MacNeil under Levine, and her farewell in 1985 with Cossotto, McCracken, and MacNeil under Levine. Though Price and Dalis were frequent partners in Aida, they only have 12 together and only 2 are broadcast, this and one in 1966 with Tucker under Mehta which according to Met data base has not been on Sirius at all. 1966 would generally be a better year for Price, so why not get that on the airwaves?