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Classical Music

BeyondGeography

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3. Me neither

Reply to Princess Turandot (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 10, 2017, 08:42 AM

Feb 2017

I do have her 1966 recording of Aida at the Met with the great Carlo Bergonzi as Radames. Price is at the top of her game throughout and repeatedly brings the down the house. There's nothing like it when an opera audience and a performer understand something that it's one of those nights and something artistically unique is happening. It's such a thrill.

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