Jones, Bumbry & Craig in Aida Act 1

[SandrineSoprano]

Great upload

[cantanteporsiempre]

Woooo, Jones looks incredible!! A true competition to Bumbry and her athletic body.

[lhrlyc]

I was in Aida at Earl's court [many moons ago] and Grace Bumbry was singing Aida - after act 2 she had to give up as she had bad hay fever - Ghena Dimitrova was in the audience and took over for acts 3 and 4, and she only "blacked up" her face [not neck or hands!]

[courtneybaritone01]

@lhrlyc hahaha! that's funny!

[LANORDA9]

Why not just get a real black woman! Wonder if a black woman could do white face and portray Queen Elizabeth?!!!!! They look absolutely stupid.

[lhrlyc]

agreed - though it WAS funny [and, by the by, sounded magnificent!]

[olauu]

Brava, brava Jones!!!!!

[foropera]

It is funny, but I find hard to recognize Gwyneth's timbre here.

Bumbry has such a beauty here, what a body (and voice of course)!

[Klassizismus]

Grace Bumbry had such an incredible instrument!

[cantanteporsiempre]

@Klassizismus Amazing!!

[puppetoz]

If this is THE Charles Craig it is the first film I've seen of him- he had an amazing voice- totally underrated

[urgrad03]

Thank goodness makeup has come LEAPS AND BOUNDS since this Jones blackface disaster:)... wonderful singing, however.

[lungdoc]

La Magnifica at her best. Viva Bumbry!

[Moegiust]

You know, in addition to her many other gifts, Bumbry had wonderful diction. A fine artist.

[operamusicfan]

Except when she says pou instead of piu' :P

[courtneybaritone01]

I'm glad they stopped using this dumb looking make-up in productions of Aida. It actually looks very silly and is ALWAYS done so poorly that it actually comes off more offensive and certainly doesn't look plausible.