Giuseppe Verdi

Aida

Aida

Opera in concert


Conductors: Evgeny Samoilov, Vasily Valitov, Alexandru Samoilă

Stage Director: Alexey Veiro

Choirmaster: Yulia Senyukova

Lighting Designer: Maya Shavdatuashvili


Running time: 3 hours with one intermission


Premiered on 20 January 2013

Recommended for 12+


Performed in Italian with Russian surtitles

Aida (1871) is one of Verdi’s greatest pieces. An exotic plot, based on an ancient Egyptian legend, beautiful melodies, inimitable Oriental flavour — all this makes this opera special among Verdi’s other operas. There is a lot of decorative splendor, brightness and colours in Aida. Extensive ensembles and massive crowd scenes, solemn marches and ballet numbers make this piece one of the “grand opera” genre.

The love story is set amidst the Egyptian pharaoh’s fight against the Ethiopians. Radames, a brave Egyptian warrior, is in love with Aida, the Ethiopian king’s daughter, who is now a slave to the Pharaoh. But Radames has to marry Amneris, the Pharaoh’s daughter. Amneris takes revenge on Radames for her unrequited love and gives him to the priests’ judgment. Radames is sentenced to a terrible execution – to be buried alive in a dungeon. Aida joins Radames in the dungeon to die with him.

 

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21april
Giuseppe Verdi

Aida

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