Aida by Verdi, Fri 07 Mar 2025, From (2025/2025), Directed by Stefano Trespidi, Conductor Oliver Díaz, Teatro Cervantes, Málaga, Spain

The most lavish of the grand operas takes place in an epic context for what is essentially an intimate and tragic love story. Aida is an Ethiopian princess who was captured and taken to Egypt as a slave. Radames is an Egyptian military commander loyal to the Pharaoh, whose daughter Amnesis is in love with Radames. She is opposed to his love for Aida, as is Aida’s father Amonasro, King of the defeated Ethiopians, who seeks vengeance. On being discovered, Radames is buried alive, and Aida enters his tomb to die by his side.