This was one of the most emotional evenings in Met history—the night Leontyne Price bid farewell to opera. Aida is the role that inspired audiences around the world to acclaim her as the greatest Verdi soprano of her time. And this telecast shows why: the famous soaring phrases that seemed to never end, the shimmering top to her lustrous voice, undimmed by the years. But most of all, there is the ennobling heart and soul Price lavished on every performance—captured here forever. With James Levine conducting the Met orchestra, chorus, and ballet.
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Leontyne Price
Aida
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Dimitri Kavrakos
The King
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Aida
Rigoletto
Fiorenza Cossotto
Amneris
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Il Trovatore - Verdi
Aida
James McCracken
Radamès
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Christmas...Again?!
Simon Estes
Amonasro
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Der fliegende Holländer
Salome
John Macurdy
Ramfis
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Don Giovanni
The Metropolitan Opera - Wagner: Tannhäuser
Robert Nagy
A Messenger
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Elektra
The Metropolitan Opera - Wagner: Tannhäuser
Therese Brandson
A Priestess
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Don Carlo
James Levine
Self - Conductor
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Il Tabarro & Pagliacci
La traviata
Brian Large Director · John Dexter Director Antonio Ghislanzoni Writer
United States release January 3, 1985 · Produced in United States
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The Metropolitan Opera
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United States
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Italian
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Italian
Release dates
United States · January 3, 1985
Digital · DVD release
United States
January 3, 1985 · TV
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