Organization

Conductor

Michele Mariotti

Stage director

Lotte de Beer

Singer

Bass

Soloman Howard

The King of Egypt

Mezzo-soprano

Ksenia Dudnikova

Amneris

Soprano

Sondra Radvanovsky

Aida

Tenor

Jonas Kaufmann

Radames

Dmitry Belosselskiy

Ramfis

Baritone

Ludovic Tézier

Amonasro

Alessandro Liberatore

A messenger

Roberta Mantegna

A high priestess

Teatro Cervantes Malaga

Others

Chœur de l’Opéra national de Paris

Orchestra

Paris Opera Orchestra

Italian

Málaga

Spain

Teatro Cervantes

Aida Verdi

Public

Spanish

Approved

Performed for the first time at the Cairo Opera in 1871 to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal, Aida takes us to the fantasy of a reconstructed Antiquity. The plot revolves around the impossible choice between love and patriotic duty: a captive Ethiopian princess and an Egyptian soldier betray their people, defy a powerful rival and band together until death. The opera contains several of the composer’s favourite themes. Longing for the lost homeland, liberation through death, the contrast between a disheartening present and one idealised elsewhere, the suffocating scope of religious and political power… All of these controlling factors in a world conceived as a trap.
For the debut at the National Opera of Paris, the Dutch stage designer Lotte de Beer chose to bring a critical vision to the European representation of the colonised people, making us question the relationship between the aesthetic productions of the past and the present.

English

Aida by Verdi, From (2022/2022), Directed by Lotte de Beer,, Conductor Michele Mariotti, Teatro Cervantes, Málaga, Spain

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Program, About & Synopsis

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