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Originally commissioned to celebrate the completion of the Suez Canal and the opening of Cairo’s new opera house, Verdi’s Egyptian epic Aida is here seen in a spectacular new staging specially mounted by the Teatro Regio Torino to celebrate the re-opening of Turin’s historic Museo Egizio, home to the world’s largest collection of Egyptian antiquities outside of the Cairo Museum.

Conducted by the Teatro Regio’s Music Director, Gianandrea Noseda – one of the world’s finest Verdians and Musical America’s Conductor of the Year 2015 –, Turin’s authentically Egyptian staging is directed in true Hollywood style by the Oscar-winning American film director William Friedkin, creator of such famous movies as The Exorcist and The French Connection.

Aida is perhaps best-known for the sonic splendour of its famous “Triumph” Scene – a rousing military march-past, complete with onstage “Egyptian trumpets”. But Verdi’s grandest opera is also amongst his most intimate, focusing as it does upon the private emotions experienced by the three victims of a tragic love-triangle: Radamès, Egypt’s victorious general, and the two rival princesses who adore him, the Pharaoh’s daughter Amneris and her Ethiopian slave Aida.

Amongst the first-rate cast, critics singled out the American soprano Kristin Lewis, who exhibits “a remarkable voice, which she uses with powerful dramatic instinct” (La Stampa), and the Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili, whose Amneris “dominates the stage with her dark, rounded, irrestistible voice and extraordinary stage presence” (La Gazzetta Musicale).

And all were united in praise of Noseda: “he controls everything – orchestra, singers, chorus, dancers, acrobats – with an all-encompassing overview” (La Stampa); “he knows exactly when it’s time to linger over a timbre, a colour, an expressive chord” (Corriere della Sera); “he draws from the score colours of a rare beauty, creating magnificent carpets of sound” (ResMusica); and, in the final scene in particular, “he resolves the expressive contrasts and the vocal-instrumental dialogue with remarkable dramatic insight and orchestral refinement” (La Repubblica).

Length: approx. 150' Cat. no. A 000 50035

A production of Fondazione Teatro regio Torino in cooperation with uNiTeL CLAssiCA

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Orchestra Orchestra and Chorus Teatro regio Torino

Conductor Gianandrea NosedaStage Director William Friedkin

Aida Kristin LewisAmneris Anita rachvelishvili

Radamès Marco BertiAmonasro Marc s. doss

Ramfis Giacomo prestiaThe King in-sung sim

A Messenger dario prolaA High Priestess Kate Fruchtermann

Produced by Metis FilmVideo Director Tiziano Mancini

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