Type

Royal Opera House

Date

18/10/2022

Doors Open

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Starting Time

6:45 pm

Running Time: 3:25 Hours

Intervals: 1

ROH: Aida

Sung in Italian with English subtitles

A co-production with Lyric Opera of Chicago

Princess Aida has been kidnapped: a valuable prize in a war between Egypt and Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the ambitious soldier Radames wrestles with his feelings for her. As they draw closer together, each must make an agonizing choice between their loyalty to home, and their love for each other.

 

In this new production, director Robert Carsen situates Verdi’s large-scale political drama within a contemporary world, framing its power struggles and toxic jealousies in the apparatus of a modern, totalitarian state. Royal Opera Music Director Antonio Pappano conducts Verdi’s glorious, monumental score.

 

Music: Giuseppe Verdi

Director: Robert Carsen

Set designer: Miriam Buether

Costume designer: Annemarie Woods

Lighting designer: Robert Carsen and Peter van Praet

Video designer: Duncan McLean

Choreographer: Rebecca Howell

 

Conducted by: Antonio Pappano

 

Aida: Elena Stikhina

RadamesFrancesco Meli

Amneris: Agnieszka Rehlis

AmonasroLudovic Tézier

Ramfis: Soloman Howard

King of EgyptIn Sung Sim

Royal Opera Chorus

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House