Verdi: Aida (DVD) – Kristin Lewis, Fabio Sartori, Anita Rachvelishvili
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Verdi: Aida (DVD) – Kristin Lewis, Fabio Sartori, Anita Rachvelishvili
Composer: Giuseppi Verdi
Artists: Kristin Lewis, Fabio Sartori, Anita Rachvelishvili, Matti Salminen, Carlo Colombara, Corps de Ballet of Teatro alla Scala, Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
Conductor: Zubin Mehta
Director: Peter Stein
Format: NTSC
Language: Italian
Subtitles: Italian, German, English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese
Region: All Regions
Number of Discs: 1
Studio: C Major
DVD Release Date: October 30, 2015
Run Time: 151 minutes
Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpiece Aida at La Scala in Milan is an experience in itself. Consequently, this production is an event not to be surpassed, especially when played before La Scala’s notoriously critical audience.
Legendary German stage director Peter Stein succeeds in delivering a lucid production acclaimed in equal measure by the press and public: “a perfect coup de théâtre” (Giornale della musica). A “stellar cast” (La Stampa) contributes to the production’s success under the musical direction of Verdi specialist Zubin Mehta, who leads the orchestra in a “gorgeously colorful performance,” while “the entire ensemble is brilliant” (Die Presse).
History
Aida
This grandest of grand operas, Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida features an epic backdrop for what is in essence an intimate love story set in ancient Egypt packed with magnificent choruses, dramatic arias, complex ensembles and elaborate ballets. The opera is, at its core, a profound exploration of the conflict of private emotion and public duty.
The score of this 4-act opera is a sophisticated example of Italian Romanticism as heard in the “Celeste Aida” right at the beginning of Act I, her impassioned “Ritorna vincitor!” that follows and her great internal journey, “Qui Radamès verrà! O patria mia” in Act III. At the center of Act II, is the great Triumphal Scene, which ranks among opera’s most celebrated moments.
Notable performances include a 1955 production conducted by Tullio Serafin with Maria Callas as Aida and Richard Tucker as Radamès, as well as a 1959 performance conducted by Herbert van Karajan with Renata Tebaldi as Aida and Carlo Bergonzi as Radamès.
Today the work holds a central place in the operatic canon, receiving performances every year around the world.
At the Metropolitan Opera alone, Aida has been performed more than 1,500 times since 1886 and was presented again in the Met’s 2018–19 season.
Aida was commissioned by and first performed at Cairo’s Khedivial Opera House on December 24, 1871.
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