Plot
Any performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida at La Scala, Milan, is guaranteed to be an experience – but, when it’s a new production, it becomes a major event, especially given the theatre’s notoriously critical audience. Legendary stage director Peter Stein succeeds in delivering a lucid production acclaimed in equal measure by the press and public: “a perfect coup de théâtre” (Giornale della musica). A “stellar cast” (La Stampa) contributes to the production’s success under the musical direction of Verdi specialist Zubin Mehta, who leads the orchestra in a “gorgeously colourful performance”, while “the entire ensemble is brilliant in its portrayal of the characters” (Die Presse).
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Cast
Carlo Colombara
Il Re
Anita Rachvelishvili
Amneris
Kristin Lewis
Aida
Fabio Sartori
Radamès
Matti Salminen
Ramfis
George Gagnidze
Amonasro
Azer Rza-Zada
Messaggero
Chiara Isotton
La Gran Sacerdotessa