![]() ![]() The main protagonists, with their roles in the opera, are as follows:Īida (soprano) Radames (tenor) Amneris (mezzo-soprano) Amonasro (baritone) Ramfis (bass), high priest of Egypt King of Egypt (bass) High Priestess (soprano) messenger (tenor). Pharaoh's daughter Amneris cherishes an unreciprocated passion for Radames. Radames, a captain of the Egyptian guard struggles between his love for Aida and his loyalty to Pharaoh. ![]() Ethiopian princess Aida (daughter of Amonasro, King of Ethiopia) has been captured and is now a slave. The scene is Memphis in Egypt, at the time of the Pharaohs. ![]() (It was in fact Verdi's Rigoletto that opened the new opera house).Īida encompasses all the glorious improbabilities of plot that we've come to expect from opera. Contrary to popular myth, Verdi did not compose the work for the opening of the Suez Canal, which had opened in 1869, though the opera house itself had been built in celebration of that engineering feat. With an original story draft by Auguste Mariette, a scenario by Camille Du Locle and a libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, the reigning giant of Italian opera premiered his new work on Christmas Eve 1871 at the Cairo Opera House, with the European premiere to follow at the Scala in Milan the following February. Giuseppe Verdi's opera in four acts, Aida is regularly performed at the Arena di Verona during the Summer opera season. Tickets for the 2023 Verona Opera Festival are now available, with a wide range of performances premiering with Aida on the 16th June 2023 and ending with La Traviata on the 9th September 2023. ![]()
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