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Estilista

Cenógrafo (+1)

Annemarie Woods

Designer de Iluminação

Diretor de Palco (+4)

Robert Carsen

Designer de Iluminação (+3)

Peter van Praet

Vídeo

Duncan McLean

Coreógrafo

Rebecca Howell

Diretor de Palco

Maestro

Maestro (+2)

Daniel Oren

Soprano (+1)

Anna Pirozzi

Aida

Barítono

Amartuvshin Enkhbat

Amonasro

Baixo (+1)

Alexander Köpeczi

Ramfis

Baixo (+3)

George Andguladze

O Rei do Egito

Soprano

Khayakazi Madlala

Uma sacerdotisa

Tenor (+1)

Andrés Presno

Um mensageiro

Orchestra

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Royal Opera House

Chorus

Chorus of the Royal Opera House

Mezzo-soprano (+5)

Raehann Bryce-Davis

Amnéris

Mestre de Coro

Mestre de Coro (+2)

William Spaulding

Riccardo Massi

Radamés

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 While many contemporary iterations of Aida have seen directors stage Verdi’s story of love and war outside of a more outdated ‘Egyptian’ (read: elephants, pyramids) landscape, Izzo acknowledges that there can still be ‘little doubt that when the curtain rises at the beginning of the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

Equipe

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Maestro

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Mestre de Coro

Designer de Iluminação

Coreógrafo

Vídeo

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Produtor

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Orquestra

Coro

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Sobre

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