Aïda at Opéra national de Paris - Opéra Bastille
Dates: (6/13/2016 - 7/16/2016 )
Opéra national de Paris - Opéra Bastille |
Place de la Bastille
Paris,Île-de-France 75012
Phone: +33 (0)1 71 25 24 23
Running Time: 2h50 with 1 interval
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"In the land of my ancestors, the air is fragrant and the earth is covered with perfumed flowers. The green fields and pleasant valleys will be our nuptial bed. Above us, the stars will shine with a clearer brighter light.
- Aida, Act III"
“The Triumphal Scene, with its blaring trumpets and its monumental grandeur, as authentic as contemporary Egyptology and the late 19th century imagination would allow, seals the tacit alliance between religion and the sword: a terrible machine to crush individuals which ultimately buries them alive in a vault. “Tu in questa tomba?” utters the inexpressibly moving, sweet and at the same time heroic voice of Radames, in mingled horror and rapture…
Yes, she has found her way to him, the beloved for whose sake he has forfeited both his honour and his life. She has been waiting here in order to die with him. The exchange of song between the two, interrupted at times by the muffled sound of the ceremonies taking place above, or harmonising with it, pierced the soul of our solitary night-watcher to its very depth, as much by reason of the circumstances as by its melodic expression. They sang of heaven, but the songs were heavenly themselves, and heavenly sung”, wrote Thomas Mann in The Magic Mountain.
Conductor Hans von Bülow once rashly described the Messa da Requiem as an “opera in ecclesiastical garb”. Aida could be a Requiem in Egyptian costumes, as its final bars rise pianissimo, morendo, sempre dolcissimo, as if adorned with a halo, up to the heavens.
- Antonio Ghislanzoni
- David Henry Hwang
- Elton John
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Linda Woolverton
- Robert Falls
- Tim Rice
Authors
Cast and Creative team for Aïda at Opéra national de Paris - Opéra Bastille
Music
Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto
Antonio Ghislanzoni
After Auguste Mariette
In Italian
Conductor
Daniel Oren
Director
Olivier Py
Il re
Orlin Anastassov
Amneris
Anita Rachvelishvili
13, 16, 19, 22, 25 juin, 9, 12 juillet
Daniela Barcellona
28 juin, 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16 juillet
Aida
Sondra Radvanovsky
13, 16, 19, 22, 25, 28 juin, 1er, 4, 9, 12 juillet
Liudmyla Monastyrska
7, 10, 13, 16 juillet
Radames
Aleksandrs Antonenko
13, 16, 19, 22, 25, 28 juin, 9, 12 juillet
Fabio Sartori
1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16 juillet
Ramfis
Kwangchul Youn
Amonasro
George Gagnidze
13, 16, 19, 22, 25 juin, 9, 12 juillet
Vitaliy Bilyy
28 juin, 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16 juillet
Un messaggero
Yu Shao
Sacerdotessa
Ileana Montalbetti
Set design
Pierre-André Weitz
Costume design
Pierre-André Weitz
Lighting design
Bertrand Killy
Chorus master
José Luis Basso
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