Aida (Verdi)

Aida is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi from 1871. The libretto was written by Antonio Ghislanzoni based on François Auguste Ferdinand Mariette 's a theme and a sketch of Camille du Loclein French. The command for writing the opera is given on the occasion of the opening of the new Cairo opera house.

The opera premiered in Cairo on 24 december 1871 (led by Verdi's friend the double bass player, composer and conductor Giovanni Bottesini) and in Italy in the Teatro alla Scala in Milan on 8 February 1872 and is still regularly performed at the pyramids of Giza.



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[hide] *1 Cast  ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Synopsis[ Edit] == Aida is a tragic tale set in ancient Egypt. Ethiopian troops are on their way to attack Egypt, and Egypt is preparing for war. Army captain Radames Gets the high command. Princess Amneris, daughter of the Egyptian Pharaoh, desires Radames violently, but these feelings are not mutual, as Radames has a covert love affair with Aida, a slave of Princess Amneris. No one knows In Egypt that Aida is a daughter of Amonasro, King of Ethiopia. Aida is torn between her love for her father and her homeland Ethiopia and her love for Radames, who leads the war against her native country. She longs for death as a way out.
 * 2 Synopsis
 * 3 character of the opera
 * 4 noted Arias
 * 5 Selected recordings
 * 6 see also
 * Aida, an Ethiopian princess and female slave of Amneris- soprano
 * Radames, Captain of the guard- tenor
 * The Pharaoh of Egypt- bass
 * Amneris, daughter of the Pharaoh- mezzo soprano
 * Amonasro, King of Ethiopia- baritone
 * Ramfis, high priest- bass
 * A Messenger- tenor
 * Priests, soldiers, slaves and prisoners- chorus

Led by Radames Egypt achieves a resounding victory on Ethiopia, and Radames is as a time honored (the triumph scene). The Pharaoh receives the hand of his daughter Amneris. However, this is not only happy because he loves Radames Aida. Pressured by her father, the Ethiopian King Amonasro, Aida seduces Radames to her the secret route of the Egyptian army to Ethiopia to tell. This is overheard by Amonasro, which it wants to resume the war against Egypt. The jealous Princess Amneris discovered this and stores alarm, when Radames is accused of treason.The recently promoted as a great hero is now by the Egyptian priests sentenced to "death of eerlozen": bricked alive in the Tomb below the Temple of Ptahthe Egyptian deity. Princess Amneris regrets her jealousy, is tormented by remorse and protested in vain against the verdict of the priests.

He is trapped in the Tomb as Radames mourns that he neither daylight nor Aida back ever will see. But to his dismay he all of a sudden notice Aida. They had hidden themselves in the tomb and says she wants to die in his arms that Radames. While above them in the temple Princess Amneris in Aida mourns, mourning clothes indeed dies in the arms of Radames. ==Character of the opera[ Edit] == The "triumphal scene" from Opera Pacific in 2006 by Aida, with Angela Brown as Aida, Donnie Ray Albert as Amonasro, Andrew Gangestad as Ramfis, Carl Tanner as Radames, Milena Kitic as Amneris, and Stefan Szkafarowsky as King of Egypt<p lang="en" len="155" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">The relationship between Aida, Amneris and Radames is a powerful love triangle in the history of the opera, in which each character musical is put down.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">Radames proves itself from the beginning of the opera with his aria Celeste Aida, where the tenor may prove long can immediately compelling melody lines. This aria ends with a climax to the high b-flat, which Verdi wrote down that this must be sung pianissimo and dying, which, by the way, ignore most Tenors: they end up fortissimo and then get a appreciërend applause from the overwhelmed audience.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">The scene in which Amneris discovered that Aida loves Radames fervently has a double dramatic contrast. On the one hand there is the rivalry between the two women, on the other hand, there is the contrast between their personal feud and the festive atmosphere of the victory outside. The offstage chorus cries for the death of the enemy, while Amneris threatens with revenge on Aida, who prays for forgiveness of the gods.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">The rival of Amneris, Aida, is itself also caught between contradictory feelings when they later try the priests to talk to Radames to donate forgiveness for his treachery. This is a highly dramatic moment in the opera, in which Verdi wrote one of his best pieces of music for the mezzo-soprano, facing a chorus of priests.

<p lang="en" len="309" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">Another famous excerpt is the triumphal March, not least by the sudden modulation in the middle of the theme for the trumpets.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">Verdi sat with the problem of the Oriental effect in his music. He had to integrate Oriental influences or instruments in his opera? He found a perfect solution in the scene in the Temple of Ptah, where he wrote a ' Western ' rhythmic accompaniment for the harp and the Orchestra, with the unusual ' Oriental ' melodic intervals in the solo by the High Priestess in which they call god. ==Noted Arias<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">Furthermore, in particular the famous triumphal March. Verdi wrote for this section the use of special, so-called As- trumpets for trumpets. ==Selected recordings<span class="mw-editsection" len="340" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">Note: "Cat:" is short for catalogue number by the society; ""ASIN" is the product reference number on amazon.com.
 * Celeste Aida
 * O Patria Mia