Aleksandrs Antonenko is the warrior Radamès, and Nicola Luisotti takes the podium for the Met’s monumental production. As Amneris weeps in the temple, Aida and Radames die down below.Soprano Anna Netrebko sings her first Met Aida, with mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili as her formidable rival Amneris. They sing a duet (Radamès and Aida: ' La fatal pietra sovra me si chiuse' / ‘The fatal stone now closes over me’). She had hidden herself in the vault in order to be able to die together with him. When he is sealed up in a vault to be buried alive, he finds Aida already there. Radames refuses to listen to Amneris’s pleas to save himself from prison by denying the charges against him. Radames surrenders to arrest, refusing to flee with Aida and Amonasro. Amneris and the high prist Ramfis see Radames and Aida together. Amonasro spies on their conversation, and when he reveals himself, Radames feels betrayed. Radames meets Aida secretly and says he will marry her. ![]() Near the temple of the goddess Isis, prayers are said to bless the upcoming wedding of Radames and Amneris (' O tu che sei d'Osiride' / ‘O thou who to Osiris art’). The king agrees, but keeps Aida and Amonasro hostage. Radames pleads with his king to let the hostages go free. The Egyptians are none the wiser all they see is a father and daughter. They lie to their captors and say that the Ethiopian king was slain in the battle. Aida is cornered by Amneris and told that Radames has died she reveals her love for him and Amneris is enraged. Aida finds her father Amonasro among the enslaved Ethiopians brought back by Radames and his troops following the battle. Radames has won the battle, and the crowds celebrate. Aida feels conflicted – she loves Radames, but she is loyal to Ethiopia. She notices that when Aida appears, Radames changes, and she figures out that Radames’ love interest is Aida. The King of Egypt enters with the news that Ethiopia is invading. Radames is a commander in the Egyptian army and is in love with Aida, but also wants to be victorious on the battlefield – Aida’s father, the Ethiopiann King Amonasro, is invading Egypt in order to find and free his daughter. Amneris is in love with Radames but knows that he loves another she can see it in his face (‘ Quale insolita gioia nel tuo sguardo’ / ‘In your looks I trace a joy unwonted’). The Ethiopian princess Aida has been captured and enslaved, but her captors do not know of her importance. Tenor Gregory Kunde is Radamès, the warrior that both women love, and baritone Vladimir Stoyanov is Aida’s father, the fallen king Amonasro. ![]() Soprano Krassimira Stoyanova takes on the title role with mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Semenchuk as her rival, the conniving princess Amneris. For these elements to exist on stage, Turin-born director Davide Livermore has found inspiration in silent epic cinema of the early twentieth century combined with certain references to Art Deco. For Michele Mariotti, conductor and music director of Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Verdi’s genius lies in his managing to combine spectacular, triumphal elements with a love story that unfolds far from public space in delicate pianissimi and sotto voce singing. This new production of Rome combines the colossal and the intimate. ![]() With its cast of hundreds, thrilling score, and sweeping tale of love and heroics in ancient Egypt, Verdi’s Aida has long been a fixture on the stages of every major opera house in the world. As they draw closer together, each must make a painful choice between their loyalty to home, and their love for each other. The ambitious soldier Radames wrestles with his feelings for her. ![]() Princess Aida has been kidnapped: a valuable prize in a war between Egypt and Ethiopia.
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