Act IV Scene 1: L'abborrita rivale a me sfuggia (Amneris)
Act IV Scene 1: Gia i sacerdoti adunansi (Amneris, Radames)
Act IV Scene 1: Ohime! Morir mi sento (Amneris, Priests)
Act IV Scene 1: Radames! Radames! Radames! (Ramfis, Priests)
Act IV Scene 2: La fatal pietra sovra me si chiuse (Radames, Aida)
Act IV Scene 2: Presago il core della tua condanna (Aida, Radames, Priests, Priestesses)
Act IV Scene 2: O terra, addio; addio, valle di pianti (Aida, Radames, Priests, Priestesses, Amneris)
““How beautifully she caressed the phrases [in the final duet] starting “Vedi? di morte l’angelo”, touching gently the notes marked staccato, ravishing the ear with the downward portamento from the high B-flat”
2010 edition
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“This is arguably the finest commercial recording of an opera that Maria Callas ever made...[Gobbi and Callas's duet] has never been matched...Barbieri is an impressive Amneris. The mono sound is clean and generally well balanced in Mark Obert-Thorn's excellent transfer”
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