eventual remorse, thus confirming the fact that her character is the most interesting, as regards development in the whole work. All her emotions are expressed in gleamingly dramatic tone and, above all, in an expressive use of Edmund Tracey's translation, for once entirely justifying giving a work in the vernacular... A long time stalwart of this Chandos series, (Dennis O'Neill) has done nothing better in it than this reading of a role he has taken often on stage.... He has the power for the dramatic moments... and more often perhaps than is possible in the theatre, he sings with subtle sensitivity.'

 

 

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BBC Music Magazine

'...devotees of Peter Moores's Opera in English project will not want to miss this, surely one of the best in the series to date.'

Gramophone

'Rosalind Plowright gives a blinding account of the Egyptian princess's love, jealousy and 

CHAN 3074

5 January 2009

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Opera in four acts
Libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni
after a scenario by Auguste Mariette
English version by Edmund Tracey

The Cast

Peter Rose, bass - The Pharaoh
Rosalind Plowright, mezzo-soprano (PMF Scholar) - Amneris
Jane Eaglen, soprano (PMF Scholar) - Aida
Gregory Yurisich, baritone - Amonasro
Dennis O'Neill, tenor - Radames
Alastair Miles, bass - Ramfis
Susan Gritton, soprano - The High Priestess
Alfred Boe, tenor - A Messenger
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
Philharmonia Orchestra
David Parry - conductor

Recorded in Blackheath Halls, London
23-28 April 2001
Producer - Brian Couzens
Sound engineer - Ralph Couzens
Assistant engineer - Christopher Brooke

Aida

© Peter Moores Foundation 2004