Question: Dear Diva, For a long time I have had a framed poster (printed on linen fabric) with the text: Opening to Night, Monday Evening October 14th at 8pm, AIDA... And then the role list, with Birgit Nilsson, Carlo Bergonzi, I Dalis, J Macurdy and others. I wonder which year this was and if it was the first time Birgit Nilsson was singing AIDA at the Met? I haven't been able to find this information on the net, so I wanted to turn to a reliable source = Diva. Hope to get some more information. With kind regards, Tristan Troby Sweden P.S. The poster is numbered 8 of 12.

Diva: Your poster is from opening night of the Met's 1963 season. It was a new production of AIDA and Mme. Nilsson's first Aida at the Met. This information can be found on the Met's website, metopera.org. Scroll down to the bottom of the page, click on "Archives", then on "Met Opera Annals". Choose "multi-field search" and type in Nilsson, Birgit in the first line, AIDA in the second, and you will come up with a list of all her AIDA performances with the company. Click on any one of them, and you will see the cast for that particular performance.