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Diseño de vestuario

Escenografía (+1)

Annemarie Woods

Iluminación

Dirección de escena (+4)

Robert Carsen

Iluminación (+3)

Peter van Praet

Video

Duncan McLean

Coreografía

Rebecca Howell

Dirección de escena

Dirección orquestal

Dirección orquestal (+2)

Daniel Oren

Soprano (+1)

Anna Pirozzi

Aida

Barítono

Amartuvshin Enkhbat

Amonasro

Bajo (+1)

Alexander Köpeczi

Ramfis

Bajo (+3)

George Andguladze

Rey de Egipto

Soprano

Khayakazi Madlala

Sacerdotisa

Tenor (+1)

Andrés Presno

Un mensajero

Orchestra

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Royal Opera House

Chorus

Chorus of the Royal Opera House

Mezzosoprano (+5)

Raehann Bryce-Davis

Amneris

Dirección coral

Dirección coral (+2)

William Spaulding

Riccardo Massi

Radamès

Tenor

Jorge de León

Robert Carsen’s ‘transformative’ (Financial Times) production situates Verdi’s large-scale political drama in a contemporary world, framing power struggles and toxic jealousies in a modern, totalitarian state. Daniel Oren conducts Verdi’s monumental score, with Anna Pirozzi as Aida, Riccardo Massi as Radames, Ekaterina Semenchuk as Amneris and Amartuvshin Enkhbat as Amonasro.

AN EGYPTIAN OPERA?
‘Cyprus; Spain; Jerusalem; Paris; the banks of the Euphrates; Mantua. The operas of Giuseppe Verdi are set in a variety of diverse locales, depicted in some detail in the set descriptions contained in the librettos,’ writes Francesco Izzo, in his Aida programme article. While many contemporary iterations of Aida have seen directors stage Verdi’s story of love and war outside of a more outdated ‘Egyptian’ (read: elephants, pyramids) landscape, Izzo acknowledges that there can still be ‘little doubt that when the curtain rises at the beginning of the opera a sizeable majority of the audience will be expecting to find some rendition of the set description found in the libretto: “A hall in the King’s palace in Memphis …A large gate at the back, through which the temples and palaces of Memphis and the pyramids are visible.”’  

A STARK SPECTACLE
The appeal, surely, is spectacle, the grand columns of said temples and palaces and colourful dance and chorus scenes the perfect recipe for a crowd-pleaser. But strip this away – as in Robert Carsen’s stark and deliberately cold staging – and Aida, at its core, is still a rich and deeply immersive story. Much like Verdi’s other popular operas (think Don Carlo, La forza del destino and Rigoletto), Aida captivates audiences with its tragic love story and with its poignant exploration of the unbreakable bond between father and daughter. It is these enduring themes, in the end, that allow us to think of Aida not as an ‘Egyptian’ opera, but a human one.

Aida, Verdi

Elenco

Aida

Amonasro

Ramfis

Il Re d'Egitto

Una sacerdotessa

Un messaggero

Amneris

Radamès

Equipo

Dirección de escena

Dirección orquestal

Diseño de vestuario

Dirección coral

Iluminación

Coreografía

Video

Instrumentación

Productor

Productor

Ensamble

Orquesta

Coro

Coproductor

Sobre

Compositor

Libreto

Descripción

Sinopsis de Producción