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Aida ⎮ Roberta Mantegna (18, 23, 26, 30/5, 1/6)
Radames ⎮ Francesco Meli (18, 23, 26, 30/5, 1/6) ⎮ Valter Fraccaro (22, 28, 31/5)
Amneris ⎮ Veronica Simeoni
Amonasro ⎮ Roberto Frontali
other roles to be announced soon
Conductor ⎮ Riccardo Frizza
Director ⎮ Mauro Bolognini replicated by Bepi Morassi
La Fenice production
Aida is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in Egypt, it was commissioned by and first performed at Cairo’s Khedivial Opera House on 24 December 1871; Giovanni Bottesini conducted after Verdi himself withdrew. Today the work holds a central place in the operatic canon, receiving performances every year around the world; at New York’s Metropolitan Opera alone, Aida has been sung more than 1,100 times since 1886. Ghislanzoni’s scheme follows a scenario often attributed to the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, but Verdi biographer Mary Jane Phillips-Matz argues that the source is actually Temistocle Solera.
Isma’il Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, commissioned Verdi to write an opera for performance to celebrate the opening of the Khedivial Opera House, paying him 150,000 francs, but the premiere was delayed because of the Siege of Paris (1870–71), during the Franco-Prussian War, when the scenery and costumes were stuck in the French capital, and Verdi’s Rigoletto was performed instead. Aida eventually premiered in Cairo in late 1871. Contrary to popular belief, the opera was not written to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, for which Verdi had been invited to write an inaugural hymn, but had declined. The plot bears striking, though unintentional, similarities to Metastasio’s libretto La Nitteti (1756).
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Samstag, Mai 18, 2019 bis Samstag, Juni 1, 2019
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Price:
Paid admission
Saturday 18/05/2019 7:00 pm
Wednesday 22/05/2019 7:00 pm
Thursday 23/05/2019 7:00 pm
Sunday 26/05/2019 3:30 pm
Tuesday 28/05/2019 7:00 pm
Thursday 30/05/2019 7:00 pm
Friday 31/05/2019 7:00 pm
Saturday 01/06/2019 3:30 pm