Verdi Aida 15 years old

Everything you want from a traditional Aida

Although there is an intimate and tragic love story at its heart, Aida is set against the exotic background of the Egypt of the Pharaohs, and is full of patriotic, nationalistic sentiments, as the Egyptian army prepare to go to war to fight off a revolt by the Ethiopians. It's a perfect subject, in other words, for Verdi, and it was undoubtedly the nature of the storyline, much more than any commission for the new opera house in Cairo (which he repeatedly refused) or the grand occasion of the opening of the Suez Canal, that encouraged him to return to opera composition in 1871, and he would return in style with a magnificent work.

Credits

Verdi Aida Cast

Name	Character
Dolora Zajick She was 57, now 72 years old	as Amneris

Verdi Aida Crew

Name	Department
Giuseppe Verdi as Compositors. He was 195 (87) years old when He died	Crew
Gary Halvorson as Director. He was 9 (now 24) years old	Directing
Peter Gelb as Producer. He was 56 (now 71) years old	Production
Antonio Ghislanzoni as Writer. He was 184 (68) years old when He died	Writing
Sonja Frisell as Production Design.	Art