Seattle opera aida5/11/2023 ![]() Radamès is eventually chosen to lead the army into battle and is cheered on by the chorus with a rousing battle cry of guerra, guerra, guerra! (War, war, war!). In a cruel twist, Princess Amneris is in love with Radamès and is not so keen on the idea that her slave could win in this particular love-triangle situation. We begin with Radamès, an army officer, awaiting a promotion in hopes that it will lead to a marriage with his love, Aida, a captive slave girl to Amneris, daughter of the King. Seattle Opera (along with Washington National Opera, San Francisco Opera, and Minnesota Opera with whom they have partnered for this current staging) has managed to strike the perfect balance between the grandiose bombast of a war story and the smaller, intimate stories of love, jealousy, and duty. With such a rich history, any mounting of a production of Aida comes with expectations of a certain amount of pomp and circumstance. Perhaps none is matched in scale, beauty, or popularity than the opera Aida composed by Giuseppe Verdi with a libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni.Īida premiered in Cairo in 1871 to great acclaim and since then has been performed all over the world (the New York Metropolitan Opera has had well over 1,000 performances since 1886). ![]() The landscape of performance and visual art is replete with tales of love and war and their consequences. ![]()
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