"One of my favorite moments in the entire opera"
“Aida, soprano Angela Renée Simpson, sang her famous dramatic first aria, ‘Ritorna vincitor’....with such dismay that she urged her beloved Radames to conquer her homeland. When she sang ‘Nume, pieta’, one of my favorite moments in the entire opera, she was achingly intimate as she intoned her prayer over the hushed tremolo of the Winston Salem Symphony’s string section.”