Aida
Presented by the Salzburg Festival. Giuseppe Verdi’s most intimate work, conducted by Riccardo Muti and starring Anna Netrebko.
In the history of the Salzburg Festival, Giuseppe Verdi’s popular opera Aida was performed only once, in 1979, staged and conducted by Herbert von Karajan. For its return, the Salzburg Festival assembled a superb artistic team, making this production the most sought after and over-booked in the Festival’s history.
The supreme cast was led by Anna Netrebko in the title role, directed by Iranian-born New York based visual artist Shirin Neshat and conducted by the world’s finest Verdi conductor, Riccardo Muti. While Aida is one of the most vulgarized pieces of opera literature, it is at the same time a deep reflection on the hierarchies of power. Being best-known for the sonic splendour of its famous “Triumphal Scene”, it is yet amongst Verdi’s most intimate works when focusing upon the private emotions experienced by the three victims of a tragic love triangle: Radamès, Egypt’s victorious captain of the guard, and the two rivalling women who adore him, the Pharaoh’s daughter Amneris and her Ethiopian slave Aida.
CREATIVE TEAM
Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni after Auguste-Édouard Mariette
Conductor: Riccardo Muti
Stage director: Shirin Neshat
Sets: Christian Schmidt
Costumes: Tatyana van Walsum
Lighting design: Reinhard Traub Choreography: Thomas Wilhelm
Video: Martin Gschlacht
Chorus master: Ernst Raffelsberger
Wiener Philharmoniker Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor
ARTISTIC TEAM
Aida: Anna Netrebko
Radamès: Francesco Meli
Il Re: Roberto Tagliavini
Amneris: Ekaterina Semenchuk
Ramfis: Dmitry Belosselskiy
Amonasro: Luca Salsi
Un messaggero: Bror Magnus Tødenes Sacerdotessa, Benedetta Torre
Presented in 4 Acts plus 1 Interval Performed in Italian, with English subtitles
