Aida

Name: AIDA 1913
Start: 2024-09-05T21:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-09-05T23:59:00+02:00
Location: Arena di Verona

Aida by Giuseppe Verdi
Arena di Verona Festival 2024-06-14 ... 2024-09-05

The opera Aida was composed by Giuseppe Verdi in four acts. The libretto was written by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Aida premiered on December 24, 1871 at the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo.
The opera Aida is set in Egypt in the period of the pharaohs. Aida is the king’s daughter of Ethiopia. She is kidnapped to Egypt. The Egyptian general Radames falls in love with Aida. However, since he is supposed to marry the daughter of Pharaoh Amneris, he despairs between love and pain and the drama takes its course. The Arena di Verona is a historic amphitheater that provides a grand and dramatic backdrop for opera performances.

On the 101st Arena di Verona Opera Festival 2024, Aida will be performed in two different productions: In the first ten performances, Stefano Poda’s “Crystal” production from the 100th Festival returns, with transparencies, unprecedented lighting effects and rich symbolism that flows between the ancient Egypt and contemporary art. Exactly 111 years after the first Aida in the Arena, which took place on August 10, 1913, the classic new production from 1913 by the late maestro Gianfranco de Bosio returns to the arena. A tribute to the Arena’s twice superintendent on his birthday.

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Arena di Verona

Verona is world famous for the Opera Festival in the Arena di Verona, which attracts millions of music lovers every summer. The Arena di Verona is the world’s largest open-air opera theatre with space for up to 22,000 spectators on the steps of the 45 rows of seats.

Verona is a city of music and opera, especially in summer. The Three Tenors Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti and Josè Carreras were regulars in Verona. The Verona Festival started in 1913 with the performance of Aida on the occasion of Giuseppe Verdi’s 100th birthday. Opera lovers around the world dream of watching an opera on the marble steps of one of the best preserved Roman amphitheaters in the world. A dream that you should experience at least once in your life. Not only operas are performed in the Arena di Verona, pop singers such as Elton John, Bob Dylan, Zucchero and Sting also gave concerts here.

Verona is a World Heritage Site for its urban structure and architecture. The historic city center is beautiful and can be explored on foot. It is like an open archeological site in-between the many beautiful Renaissance palaces. And yes, it is famous for the setting of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”. Above all the beautiful sites is the Arena, a huge Roman amphitheater from the first century. The daily mean temperature between June and early September is 21C to 23C. This is perfect for an outdoor performance in the Arena. There are famous operas, concerts and ballet performances to chose from.

Every year we create exclusive music trips to Italy for friends of opera and ballet. Operas of the leading Italian composers Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini and Gioachino Rossini are favourite in the Arena. Enjoy the extraordinary atmosphere at the Roman amphitheatre in the heart of Verona in the summer months under the open sky. Please make your travel plans early and select a performance of interest. Because, if there are less than two months to go, the best tickets might be sold out, the hotels might have increased prices and things may become difficult. With our music tours you get the best seats, on upholstered chairs, together with a nice stay program in Verona.

The Story of AIDA

The opera Aida was composed by Giuseppe Verdi in four acts. Antonio Ghislanzoni wrote the libretto.
Aida was first performed on December 24, 1871 at the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo.
The setting is Egypt in the time of the pharaohs and it’s about the king’s daughter of Ethiopia.
The Egyptian general Radames is to marry the daughter of the pharaoh but loves Aida, who was kidnapped to Egypt. The drama takes its course.
The opera Aida is set in Egypt in the period of the pharaohs. Aida is the daughter of the kings of Ethiopia. She is kidnapped to Egypt. The Egyptian general Radames falls in love with Aida. However, since he is to marry the daughter of Pharaoh Amneris, he despairs between love and pain and the drama takes its course.
The opera Aida is set in Egypt during the time of the pharaohs. The Egyptian general Radames has fallen madly in love with the slave Aida.
But the upcoming war between Egypt and Ethiopia threatens this young love. Trouble also threatens from the other side, because the king’s daughter Amneris is also in love with Radames.
The other threat comes from the king’s daughter Amneris, who is also in love with Radames.
The Egyptian troops under Radames win the war and so the Egyptian pharaoh promises his daughter in marriage as a reward.
However, the enamored hero reveals military secrets to his lover Aida, thereby becoming a traitor. The drama takes its course and the traitor awaits death by being immured. The king’s daughter Amneris now tries everything to save her lover, in vain. Because Aida also loves Radames and so Radames and Aida choose suicide.