2009: Aida
8 August 2009 - SynopsisAida, the story of the tragic love between the Ethiopian princess Aida – once brought to the Nile as a slave - and the Egyptian commander Radames.
Right from the start Verdi conceived Aida an as opera that would be second to none, endowed with all the elements of the genre in perfect combination. There are grandiose choral scenes and rousing rhythmic marches, lyrical evocations of nature, gorgeous arias and romantic duets, and their effect is further enhanced by the exotic flavour of the music. The famous triumphal march with its blaring fanfares and stirring choruses is one of the musical and dramatic highpoints of "grand Italian opera".
The beautiful Aida and the proud Radames are condemned to death – he for treachery, she for love. They are to be immured in a temple vault while still alive, a death that could hardly be more pitiless. And yet their end is accompanied by music which reveals nothing of the awful fait that awaits them: for at this moment we hear the final aria "O terra addio, addio valle di pianti ("O Earth, farewell – farewell, vale of tears") – so delicate, so pure and so radiant that it would seem that nothing in the world can make this love perish.
Aida and Radames are carried off together by death, united for ever in a last embrace.
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