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Aida (or Aïda, Italian:) is a tragic opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in the Old Kingdom of Egypt, it was commissioned by Cairo's Khedivial Opera House and had its première there on 24 December 1871, in a performance conducted by Giovanni Bottesini. Today the work holds a central place in ...
Aida premiered on Broadway on March 23, 2000, running for 1,852 performances until September 5, 2004. It was nominated for five Tony Awards and won four, including Best Original Score. It was also named by Time as one of the top ten theatre productions of the year.
We look at the history of Verdi's Aida, an opera initially meant to celebrate the opening of the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo...but war intervened. He was so furious that he considered the performance at La Scala its real premiere.
24 gru 2017 · Premiering on December 24, 1871, at the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo, Egypt, Giuseppe Verdi’s “Aida” is one of opera’s best-loved and most enduring works.
10 sie 2022 · Giuseppe Verdi. Premiere – December 24, 1871, Khedivial Opera House, Cairo, Egypt. Composer – Giuseppe Verdi. Librettist – Antonio Ghislanzoni. Running Time – Roughly 2 1/2 hours, plus Intervals. Four Acts. Ouverture – 4 minutes. Act 1 – ca 37 minutes. Act 2 – ca 41 minutes. Act 3 – ca 33 minutes. Act 4 – ca 34 minutes. In Italian. Main characters.
history of opera. …in Cairo, Verdi responded with Aida (libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, based on a scenario by Auguste Mariette, the French Egyptologist, and Camille du Locle, with the collaboration of Verdi), which received its premiere in 1871.
Aida’s premiere, originally scheduled for January 1871, was postponed by historical turmoil beyond its creators’ control. The Franco-Prussian War and the upheaval of the Paris Commune that followed, made communication between Mariette and Verdi difficult.
