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Giuseppe Verdi, Aida

Preludio

I, 1: "Sì: corre voce"

I, 1: "Se quel guerrier io fossi!"

I, 1: "Quale insolita gioia"

I, 1: "Alta cagion v’aduna"

I, 1: "Ritorna vincitor! – L’insana parola"

I, 2: "Possente Fthà"

I, 2:"Mortal, diletto ai Numi"

II, 1: "Chi mai fra gl’inni e i plausi – Ah! vieni"

II, 1: "Fu la sorte del l’armi a tuoi'funesta"

II, 1: "Su! Del Nilo al sacro lido"

II, 2: "Gloria all'Egitto"

II, 2: Triumphal March

II, 2: «Vieni, o guerriero vindice»

II, 2: "Salvator della patria"

II, 2: "Che Veggo ! Egli ? Mio padre !"

II, 2: "Ma tu, Re, tu signore possente"

II, 2: "O Re, pei sacri numi "

II, 2: "Gloria all'Egitto"

III: "O tu che sei d’Osiride"

III: "Qui Radamès verrà!"

III: "Ciel! mio padre!"

III: "Pur ti riveggo, mia dolce Aida"

III: "Fuggiam gli ardori inospiti… Là, tra foreste virgini"

IV, 1: "L’abborrita rivale a me sfuggia"

IV, 1: "Già i sacerdoti adunansi"

IV, 1: "Ohimè! Morir me sento !"

IV, 1: "Radamès ! Radamès ! Radamès"

IV, 2: "La fatal pietra sovra me si chiuse"

IV, 2: "Presago il core della tua condanna "

IV, 2: "O terra, addio"

Verdi's Aida

Robert Carsen (stage director), Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor) — With Elena Stikhina (Aida), Francesco Meli (Radames), Agnieszka Rehlis (Amneris) …

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Cast

Robert Carsen — Stage director, lighting designer

Miriam Buether — Set designer

Annemarie Woods — Costumes designer

Peter van Praet — Lighting designer

Rebecca Howell — Choreographer

Duncan McLean — Video designer

Elena Stikhina — Aida

Program notes

How can artists stage Verdi's Aida in 2024 without falling into exoticizing tropes? For director Robert Carsen, the answer was simple: transpose the action to a completely different context — an imaginary and instantly chilling dictatorship. Against a backdrop of cold concrete, the remarkable soloists (including Elena Stikhina in the title role, Francesco Meli as Radamès, Ludovic Tézier as Amonasro, and Soloman Howard as a Ramphis for the ages) and incredible chorus members of the Royal Opera House, dressed in military garb, play out the action of this grand opera masterpiece for an audience held in rapt suspense. The ballet sequence, choreographed by Rebecca Howell, also takes full advantage of the military theme…

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