- On View
- Musical Crossroads Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- Musical Crossroads
- Published by
- RCA Records, founded 1901
- Recorded by
- Price, Leontyne, American, born 1927
- Vickers, Jon, Canadian, 1926 - 2015
- Gorr, Rita, Belgian, 1926 - 2012
- Merrill, Robert, American, 1917 - 2004
- Tozzi, Giorgio, American, 1923 - 2011
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- magnetic tape, paper, plastic
- Dimensions
- Diameter (tape reel): 7 × 1/2 in. (17.8 × 1.3 cm)
- H x W x D (reel box): 7 7/16 × 7 7/16 × 3/4 in. (18.9 × 18.9 × 1.9 cm)
- Description
- A tape reel of Verdi-Aida (2016.68.10a) that is housed in a cardboard case (2016.68.10b). The front of the case features a closely framed portrait of Leontyne Price looking upward in costume as the character Aïda from Verdi's opera "Aïda." Above Price's portrait are two equally-sized rectangle text boxes; the rectangle to the left is orange while the rectangle to the right is black. White and black text in the rectangle to the left reads [HIGHLIGHTS / AÏDA / VERDI]. White and orange text in the rectangle to the right reads [PRICE • VICKERS / GORR • MERRILL • TOZZI / SOLTI • / ROME OPERA HOUSE / ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS / Selected by the Metropolitan Opera]. Above these two rectangle text boxes is a series of text boxes aligned with the top edge which contain the record label logo and stereo specifications. The back of the case has black text on a white background that gives information about the tape. The reel has a RCA Victor red label.
- Classification
- Time-based Media - Audio
- Type
- audiotapes
- Topic
- Classical (Music)
- Composers (Musicians)
- Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Opera (Music)
- Singers (Musicians)
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2016.68.10ab
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown - Restrictions Possible
- Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




