Name: Aida
Start: 1986-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
End: 1986-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Teatro alla Scala

Organization

Stage director

Luca Ronconi

Conductor

Lorin Varencove Maazel

Set designer

Mauro Pagano

Costume designer

Vera Marzot

Singer

Bass

Paata Burchuladze

The King of Egypt

Mezzo-soprano

Ghena Dimitrova

Amneris

Tenor

Luciano Pavarotti

Radames

Baritone

Juan Pons

Amonasro

Ernesto Gavazzi

A messenger

Soprano

Francesca Garbi

A high priestess

Teatro alla Scala

Aida

Milan

Italy

Luciano Pavarotti heads an exceptional cast in this spectacular live recording from La Scala, Milan, with Ghena Dimitrova, Maria Chiara, Nicolai Ghiaurov and Juan Pons, all in peak form. Luca Ronconi's magnificent production of Verdi's much-loved masterpiece was a triumphant success, with Mauro Pagano's monumental settings capturing perfectly the imposing grandeur of the land of the Pharaohs and the ochre hues of the desert. Lorin Maazel conducts.

Aida Verdi

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This magnificent production of Verdi's much-loved masterpiece was a triumphant
Success when it opened at La Scala in December 1985 and Luciano Pavarotti's Iong-
awaited performance as Radames his first in Italy - was greeted with rapturous
applause. In this live recording of that production, Pavarotti heads an exceptional
cast with Ghena Dimitrova, Maria Chiara, Nicolai Ghiaurov and Juan Pons all in peak
form. Lorin Maazel's reading of the SCore showS a rare understanding of Verdi's
music.
Verdi wrote Aida in response to a request by the Khedive of Egypt, for an opera
with authentic Egyptian flavour, to open the Cairo Opera House in 1871. The
opera's appeal was immediate and lasting and this production captures perfectly
the imposing grandeur of the land of the Pharoahs and the ochre hues of the
desert. It is an ideal setting for the magnificent spectacle of the opera, which
combines so consummately with the drama of human emotion, played out in
Radames's love for the slave girl Aida and the jealousy of Amneris, daughter of the
Egyptian King.

English

Aida by Verdi, From (1986/1986), Directed by Luca Ronconi,, Conductor Lorin Varencove Maazel, Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Italy

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