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The Show Verdi's captivating opera returns to the Royal Opera House, where love and duty collide.
Background 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While many contemporary iterations of Aida have seen directors stage Verdi's story of love and war outside of a more outdated 'Egyptian' (read: elephants, pyramids) landscape, Izzo acknowledges that there can still be 'little doubt that when the curtain rises at the beginning of the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.
15pm Audio described performance with pre-performance touch tour - Sunday 9 February, 3pm
Theatre details
Royal Opera House
Royal Opera House Bow Street London WC2E 9DD
Directions: ( 7 minutes from Leicester square Tube Station) Head east on Cranbourn Street and continue for 390 feet ( towards Charing Cross Road). Cranbourn Street turns slightly right and becomes Garrick Street continue along this road for 207 feet. Turn left onto Floral Street and continue for 0.2 miles. Turn right onto Bow Street and continue for 171 feet, the theatre will be on your right hand side.
Tube: Covent Garden station is 1 minute walk (135 metres)
Covent Garden station is 1 minute walk (135 metres)
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