Aida

Synopsis

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”. 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 mezzosoprano Anita Rachvelishvili, whose Amneris “dominates the stage with her dark, rounded, irrestistible voice and extraordinary stage presence” (La Gazzetta Musicale).

Additional Info

• No: A00050035
• Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
• Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda
• Orchestra: Orchestra and Chorus Teatro Regio Torino
• Artists: Kristin Lewis, Anita Rachvelishvili, Marco Berti, Marc S. Doss, Giacomo Prestia
• Production year: 2015
• Run time: 02:28:00
• Director: Stage Director: William Friedkin
• Producers: Fondazione Teatro Regio Torino in cooperation with UNITEL CLASSICA
• Format: 4K