Organization

Abu Dhabi Festival

Choreographer

Leda Lojodice

Chorusmaster

Andrés Máspero

Lighting designer

Vinicio Cheli

Tenor (+1)

Fabián Lara

A messenger

Stage director

Stage director (+4)

Hugo De Ana

Set designer

Bass (+4)

Deyan Vatchkov

The King of Egypt

Costume designer

Video

Video (+2)

Sergio Metalli

Teatro Real de Madrid

Chorus

Intermezzo

Orchestra

Madrid Symphony Orchestra

Teatro Real

Conductor

Conductor (+2)

Nicola Luisotti

Soprano (+1)

Jaquelina Livieri

A high priestess

Mezzo-soprano (+5)

Sonia Ganassi

Amneris

Mezzo-soprano (+2)

Ketevan Kemoklidze

Soprano (+3)

Krassimira Stoyanova

Aida

Daniel Oren

Jamie Barton

Tenor (+4)

Piotr Beczała

Radames

Tenor (+3)

Yusif Eyvazov

Bass (+3)

Alexander Vinogradov

Ramfis

Bass (+2)

Jongmin Park

Bass-baritone (+7)

Carlos Álvarez

Amonasro

Baritone (+2)

Artur Rucinski

Soprano

Roberta Mantegna

Tenor

Jorge de León

Bass-baritone (+3)

Simón Orfila

Gevorg Hakobyan

Soprano (+5)

Anna Netrebko

Marta Bauzà

Maria Agresta

Conductor (+1)

Diego García Rodríguez

Vittoria Yeo

Yonghoon Lee

One of the greatest ironies of grand opera – the total spectacle of early Romanticism – is that its legacy has come down to us mainly through foreign surrogates such as Aida, whose Cairo premiere in 1871 was surrounded by all the paraphernalia reserved for the great geopolitical conclaves. Far from giving in to the vulgar trickery characteristic of this genre, this masterpiece and turning point in Verdi's production turned the massive scenes into an integral part of the drama –and not a mere spectacle– and infused its creatures with a fire that reaches solar temperatures in their last act, before melting into a loving embrace of resignation and oblivion.

Any production that claims to live up to this work must overcome no less thorny challenges: that the drama shines above the show and that the passions give off their fiery brilliance without burning in the morbid flames of the feuilleton. Almost a quarter of a century after its premiere in 1998, these are precisely the keys that explain the validity of this historic production by Hugo de Ana in an updated revival to demonstrate once again –forgive the redundancy– its perennial relevance.

italiera

Madrid

Spain

Sala Principal

Aida Verdi

Staged

Opera

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