Curtain Call in Aida with Paolo Carignani, Michelle Bradley, Limmie Pulliam, Quinn Kelsey 12.17.22

The mighty walls and towering monuments of ancient Egypt once again fill the Met stage, as Verdi’s great spectacle returns.Rising soprano Michelle Bradley stars in the title role, a captive Ethiopian princess torn between love and country. Mezzo-soprano Olesya Petrova alternates as Aida’s implacable Egyptian counterpart Amneris, with tenor Limmie Pulliam as the warrior Radamès, the object of both of their affections. Baritone Quinn Kelsey portrays Aida’s father, Amonasro, and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn is the iron-fisted priest Ramfis. Maestro Paolo Carignani conducts.

[@cynthiafletcher9845]

Beautiful opera and great curtain call. All the best to the singers and orchestra❤⭐❤

[@maestromuffin1]

Limmie makes it to the Met.....I love it!!!!!!!!

[@Diane-Beatrice]

How do you know it is Met NY ? Beautiful costumes !

[@maestromuffin1]

@@Diane-Beatrice because that is the curtain at the MET!!!! AND I read about it! And there is only one opera house called the MET!

[@Diane-Beatrice]

@@maestromuffin1 ok but that the old curtain and an old way of bowing curtain closed, no ?

[@maestromuffin1]

@@Diane-Beatrice Diane, that's the way its always at the MET....YOU SHOULD GO!!!

[@christopherdoran3608]

So Happy for Limmie!

[@jefolson6989]

How thrilling! Limmie!

[@frontporchproductions]

Thank you for sharing

[@danafripp4120]

YYYYYEEEEEEEEEES!!!!!!!!! LIMMIE PULLIAM!!!!!

[@danafripp4120]

SO EXCITING! Thank you for sharing this curtain call!

[@rogerwhite95]

I met and chatted with Mr Pulliam many years ago, before he was so well known. A very lovely person who never gave up on his dream. I congratulate him on his great success!

[@samueljaramillo4221]

We’ve seen this opera live at the Met many times. It’s amazing.

[@joemcbob9688]

I was there!

[@awlovesaw8502]

Well how was it???

[@joemcbob9688]

@@awlovesaw8502 Pulliam was incredible, Bradley was pretty good, Van Horn and Kelsey were great, and Petrova...well, on Petrova I better remain silent.

[@barahona68]

@@joemcbob9688 Never heard of any of these singers, are they a new generation? How is Limmie's voice? A spinto to dramatic one or a rather lyric voice?

[@joemcbob9688]

@@barahona68 I’d say full spinto/dramatic. Also Bradley was Aida, Petrova was Amneris.

[@joemcbob9688]

@@barahona68 The singers were all backups. They were all young. Petrova replaced Rachvelishvili, who is quite young herself, and Bradley replaced Latonia Moore.

[@francoricoveri6273]

Limmie the great!

[@andreafasoli8186]

Lim, Love You Bro !!

[@jackhamm1745]

Great view. What section were you sitting in?

[@oksanaurazava1975]

Chego oni vse takie tolstie???

[@maxcornise7204]

Did she sing an e-flat 6 at the end of the Triumphal Scene!

[@joemcbob9688]

No.

[@liedersanger1]

If I were the stars singing Aida and Radames I wouldn’t like ceding the stage to Amneris at the very end. A strange decision by the director, after all of the opera is entitled Aida.

[@Keksakallu]

Not that strange, really, when you think about it. The final scene is Aida and Radames being buried alive, their voices fading into the darkness of their impending deaths as Amneris is left alone among the living, wracked with guilt at having been responsible for it all. The fact that she gets the last sung notes of any soloist in the score speaks fairly directly to that. Staging-wise, it's about as close to Verdi's intentions as you can get.

[@liedersanger1]

@@Keksakallu There we disagree - - a few final phrases do not make the scene about Amneris. I’ve never seen it done this way in dozens of productions, so, if this was Verdi’s intention, it’s been discovered rather late. And its static. The fact that Aida and Radames take the first bows makes the point. I suspect they didn’t sing their duet from way back. The old Dexter production had a fine final scene where Amneris sang prone lying above the tomb. I would have loved to have seen the whole scene.

[@maestromuffin1]

last Aida I saw at the Met - Stephanie Blythe totally stole the show(as Amneris).