What is Aida?

Aida is the four active opera Italian composer Giuseppe Verdim, who is also known for Nabucco, Rigoletto, Ilnatore - Troubador in English; La Traviata or A fallen woman; unllo in Maschera or masked ball; and many other operas. It was composed in 1870 with the libretto Antonio Ghislanzoni, based on the screenplay of Egyptologist August Mariette and with adaptations of French librettist Camille du Locle and Verdi himself. The opera was planned as an introductory work at the Cairo Opera. After the delay caused by the French War, the Opera premiere in Cairo was 24 December 1871. In the twentieth first century it is still one of the most popular of all operas. Radames, Captain Guard in Egypt, hopes to be entrusted with the Egyptian army, and dreams of it and his love for Aida, Ethiopian slave. He does not know he is the daughter of the Ethiopian king. Amneris, the daughter of the king of Egypt, will join him, who is in love with him and suspicious thatHis feelings are turned elsewhere. Aida and Amneris appear when she sees Radames looking at her, her suspicion is confirmed.

The messenger reveals that the Ethiopia of the king leads to them an army and Radames was named commander of the Egyptian army who would meet them. Aida's emergency is a foil to expect the crowd victory.

In ACT II, ​​the scene opens in Amneris's rooms and its servants cool Radames' victory. As Aida approaches, Amneris refuses to others and confronts her with her affection for Radames and eventually brings her to confess. The tribes of the winning march will reach women who have contradictory reactions to the preliminary.

Radames appears at the City Gate of Thebes and Amneris crowns it with a laurel wreath. The king offers him anything he can wish for, and Radames asks for prisoners to be brought. Aida recognizes her father between them. Radames asks for a prisoner, which is awarded after the argument. LastThe King gives Amneris Radames in marriage.

In Law III it is the eve of marriage. Amneris enters the temple to pray while Aida is heading for the last meeting with Radames. Her father tries to get her to get information from Radames about his military plans, and he punishes her. Aida and Radames meet and she convinces him to escape her. She asks and she reveals the way of the army, and as soon as she tells her, her father appears. Radames is upset above the betrayal, and as Aida and her father try to comfort him, Amneris and the main priest enter. Aida and her father flee and give up Radames.

In Act IV, Amneris Plans to save Radames, but refuses to defend and only wish death. Amneris speaks of his love for him and tells him that Aida is still alive and his reaction brings Amneris's jealousy. In his court, Radames refuses to answer the accusation and praying for mercy. The sentence of the priests Radames, which is to be alive alive under God's altar. Amneris curse the priest.

PriestThey close the tomb, and Radames finds that Aida hid there to die with him. When they sing their last duet, Amneris on the altar over praying for Peace for Radames.

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