Name: Aida
Start: 2019-04-11T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2019-04-11T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Palco

Organization

Direzione d'orchestra

Pavel Smelkov

Regia

Alexei Stepanuyk

Scenografia

Costumi

Varvara Evchuk

Video

Vadim Dulenko

Coreografia

Ilya Ustiantsev

Direzione del coro

Larisa Shveikovskaya

Assistant production designer

Ivan Tolstov

Mezzo-soprano

Laura Bustamante

Amneris

Soprano

Alena Diyanova

Aida

Tenor

Mergen Sandanov

Radamès

Bass

Yevgeny Plekhanov

Ramfis

Baritone

Vyacheslav Vasilyev

Amonasro

Sergei Pleshivtsev

Il Re d'Egitto

Anastasia Kikot

Una sacerdotessa

Alexei Kostyuk

Un messaggero

Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre

italiano

Vladivostok

Russia

Public

russo

inglese

Approvato

Palco

Basso

Instrumentalist

Pianoforte

Violinista

Cellist

Violista

Suonatore di flauto

Clarinetist

Guitarist

Organist

Percussionist

Oboist

hornist

Bassoonist

Trumpeter

Contrabassist

Harper

Saxophonist

Trombonist

Harpsichordist

Accordionist

Bassist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da Gambist

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

Theorbist

Composizione

Libretto

Luci

Ballerino/a

Recitazione

Drammaturgia

Traduzione

Sound designer

Maestro accompagnatore

Trucco

Produzione esecutiva

Parrucco

Altro

Stage Manager

Coro

Orchestra

Poeta

Docente di canto

Insegnante

Fotografia

Emittente radiotelevisiva

Scrittura

Scrittura ed esecuzione

Chorus Director

Wig & Makeup Designer

Orchestra Operations

Illustrator

Extra

Basso-baritono

Singer

Controtenore

Contralto

Mezzosoprano

Tenore

Baritono

Verbale

Voce bianca

Silenzioso

Alto

Continuo

By the end of the 1860s, the name Verdi gained worldwide recognition. His compositions found their way into the repertoire of the leading musical stages, and the largest theaters such as the Paris Opera and the St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre sought cooperation with the composer. As for Verdi himself, he was busy inventing a plot for a new drama, and a lucky chance came to his aid. The Egyptian Government asked the composer to write an opera for the Cairo Theatre whose construction was timed to the opening of the Suez Canal. And then Verdi’s friend brought him the script written by the famous Egyptologist Auguste Mariette based on an old legend.

Fascinated by the plot of Aida, the composer immediately set to work. In an effort to convey the exotic atmosphere of the distant era, he studied history, life and arts of the Ancient Egypt, and wrote the libretto together with poet Antonio Ghislanzoni. Verdi’s goal was to achieve theatrical expressiveness of each word and clarity of action saturated with sharp dramatic situations and collisions of strong characters.

Aida has such features of a large-scale opera as full-fledged crowd scenes, sophisticated ensembles, choreography pieces, choirs and processions. However, this decorative pomp does not infringe upon the development of a psychological drama based on the eternal conflict between feelings and duty. Each of the main characters will have to deal with that conflict. Their complex, sometimes contradictory images reveal new facets in the making, and even the classic love triangle presented by Verdi is far from being unequivocal. The “quiet” finale of the opera is also unusual. “Not so much sounds as tears”, as one of the composer’s contemporaries described the duet of the dying Aida and Radames.

The orchestra in Aida is rarely limited to a simple accompaniment to singing, but plays an important role in the musical drama. The researchers noted that Verdi took into account Wagner’s experience without changing the vocal nature of the opera genre. The characters in Aida have orchestral themes that accompany their appearance on the stage or give out their thoughts. Also, certain groups of timbres are assigned to the characters: woodwinds for Aida, strings for Amneris, brass wings for the Priests. The musical instruments also have a special function: they create colorful oriental flavor. For example, Rimsky-Korsakov admitted that he had used Aida “to learn dramatic orchestra”, noting the “brilliant idea” of the drums preceding the duo of Radames and Aida in Act III and the Nile cello flautandos, as well as the skillful use of the flutes. Much attention has been paid to the pipes and harps, the oldest instruments widely used in the Egyptian music since the Pharaohs’ times. One of the most spectacular scenes of Aida is the Triumphal March of Act II performed by stage pipes.

Big opera is inseparable from big performance style. The main characters’ parts require strong beautiful voices, and a rich palette of emotions requires possession of the entire arsenal of expressive means within the limits of a huge tessitura. That is why Aida, despite its popularity, is beyond the strength of many theaters, at least in the form it was originally conceived by Verdi. The premiere of the opera took place in Cairo on the Christmas Eve of 1871. The scenery and costumes were made according to the sketches of Auguste Mariette. The grand success of the performance was compared with the triumph of Radames the vanquisher. Immediately after the performance in Egypt, Aida began its triumphal march through the leading European Opera Theatres.

Nadezhda Koulygina

English

Aida by Verdi, gio 11 apr 2019, Da (2019/2019), Diretto da Alexei Stepanuyk,, Direttore d'orchestra Pavel Smelkov, Palco, Vladivostok, Russia

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