#GIUSEPPE VERDI AIDA PLUS#

– … Two or three situations, even if not new, are certainly very appealing. After having read it and reflected somewhat, Verdi gave his verdict: So he showed Verdi a sketch for a drama by Auguste Mariette. He was convinced he could make him accept the offer from Cairo to write a new opera for their new opera house. No different from what any extremely successful businessman in his late 50s would do.īut the French librettist and impresario, Camille Du Locle who wrote the libretto for Don Carlos, and who was also Giuseppe Verdi’s close friend, wouldn’t have it He didn’t want the undisputed Maestro of Opera-composing to just settle down and give up. Instead Verdi focused on his estate and Villa Sant’Agata. The time between one opera and another, lengthened. Before that La Forza del Destino ( The Power of Fate) in 1862. His last opera, Don Carlos, premiered in Paris in 1867. He was a member of the first ever Italian parliament, and later became a senator from 1874.Ībout his composing, he had reach every possible and impossible goal, and even though he still was very engaged and followed his operas around the continent, one can detect a slight fatigue. In the 1860s, Verdi had reached a position as not only the most successful opera composer in the world, with all the fame, money, and acclaimation such a position could bring… But he was also a politically prominent individual in the new Italy founded in 1861, and completed in the following years. Please keep your phone turned off when inside the theater. The orchestra is heavy, and the chorus should be sizable.īased on an idea/outline by the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette.ĭownload this short Pdf-guide. Print it, fold it, and keep it in your pocket as a help when you’re at the Opera. But it’s also because Aida is a big opera (In French, Grand operà), and it’s often played in big theaters or even outside. That’s not only because the characters need that type of sound. Yes, as you can see, these are rather strong and dramatic voices.

Ramfis, High Priest of the Temple: Deep Bass (dramatic low bass).

Amonasro, King of Ethiopia, Adia’s father: Dramatic Baritone.

Amneris, Princess of Egypt: Dramatic Mezzo-Soprano (…with height).Radamès, Captain of the Guards: Lyric-Dramatic tenor (A little darker and stronger than a Lyric Tenor).Aida, Princess of Ethiopia: Lyric-Dramatic soprano (A little darker and stronger than a Lyric Soprano).

#GIUSEPPE VERDI AIDA PLUS#

Running Time – Roughly 2 1/2 hours, plus Intervals Premiere – December 24, 1871, Khedivial Opera House, Cairo, Egypt. Verdi wasn’t fond of traveling, and he thought he had already done his share of it.īut he couldn’t escape his genius, and although he never set foot in Egypt, he finally gave up his resistance and wrote one of the most spectacular operas ever seen… Aida. Especially if it would involve traveling far away. The truth was that he didn’t really want to compose anymore. He was also invited by Ismāʿīl Pascià, the Khedive of Egypt, to write an opera for the inauguration of the brand new theater in Cairo… The Khedivial Opera House, inaugurated just days before the canal. Verdi was asked to write a hymn for the inauguration of the canal but refused. And the Egyptian Capital, Cairo, suddenly became the center of the world. Though not a major success at once, it changed the world map overnight. In 1869 the brand-new Suez canal was opened.

He worked with his estate, and he was engaged in politics.īut far away from his home in Busseto, bigger things were happening. During the 1860s, Giuseppe Verdi was slowly distancing himself from composing.

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