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Aida.(Historic Broadcasts)(Radio Program Review)

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AIDA

Music by Giuseppe Verdi Libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni

Historic broadcast of February 25, 1967

The Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Aida on February 25, 1967, was the first time that Verdi's opera had been broadcast from the company's brand-new home at Lincoln Center. When the "new Met" opened on September 16, 1966, the world premiere of Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra was led by ...

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