[Met Performance] CID:279110
Aida {899} Metropolitan Opera House: 01/3/1985., Broadcast / Telecast
(Broadcast / Telecast)
Metropolitan Opera House
January 3, 1985 Broadcast / Telecast
AIDA {899}
Giuseppe Verdi--Antonio Ghislanzoni
Aida....................Leontyne Price [Last performance]
Radamès.................James McCracken
Amneris.................Fiorenza Cossotto
Amonasro................Simon Estes
Ramfis..................John Macurdy
King....................Dimitri Kavrakos
Messenger...............Robert Nagy
Priestess...............Therese Brandson
Dancers: Sam Cardea, Joseph Carman, Gary Cordial, Ricardo Costa, Kimberly Graves,
Naomi Marritt, Virgil Pearson-Smith, Ellen Rievman, Christopher Stocker, Fredrick Wodin
Conductor...............James Levine
Production..............John Dexter
Staging Director........Bruce Donnell
Set designer............David Reppa
Costume designer........Peter J. Hall
Costume designer........Lawrence Casey*
Lighting designer.......Gil Wechsler
Choreographer...........Louis Johnson
TV Director.............Brian Large
[*Note: Leontyne Price's costumes were designed by Lawrence Casey.]
Telecast: Live From The Met
[This performance was billed as Price's "farewell to opera". Though the soprano returned to sing a concert, 3/24/85, the occasion marked her final performance in a complete role.]
Available for streaming at Met Opera on Demand