NYTimes.com: “Latonia Moore Steps In to ‘Aida’ at the Metropolitan Opera”

[(Cory Weaver/Metropolitan Opera) Latonia Moore as Aida in her Metropolitan Opera debut.]

John Malveaux of www.MusicUNTOLD.com sends this review of soprano Latonia Moore:

The New York Times

Music Review

“Bouquets and Bravas for the Met’s Sudden Aida

By Anthony Tommasini

Published: March 4, 2012 

“As often happens with cover singers at the Metropolitan Opera the soprano Latonia Moore had less than a day’s notice to take over a major part, in her case the title role of Verdi’s 'Aida' on Saturday afternoon. Violeta Urmana, scheduled to sing, was ill. (Sondra Radvanovsky had filled in for her on Tuesday.) So with just some studio coaching sessions and no rehearsal onstage, Ms. Moore, a 33-year-old Houston native, made her Met debut in the last performance of the revival of the company's 1988 production this season, with Marco Armiliato conducting. The audience loved her. When Ms. Moore took her solo curtain call at the end, she received an ecstatic ovation.”