Aida stage photo
Aida is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in Egypt, it was commissioned by and first performed at Cairo's Khedivial Opera House on 24 December 1871; Giovanni Bottesini conducted after Verdi himself withdrew. Today the work holds a central place in the operatic canon, receiving performances every year around the world; at New York's Metropolitan Opera alone, Aida has been sung more than 1,100 times since 1886. Ghislanzoni's scheme follows a scenario often attributed to the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, but Verdi biographer Mary Jane Phillips-Matz argues that the source is actually Temistocle Solera.
Aida stage photo
Isma'il Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, commissioned Verdi to write an opera for performance to celebrate the opening of the Khedivial Opera House, paying him 150,000 francs,[2] but the premiere was delayed because of the Siege of Paris (1870–71), during the Franco-Prussian War, when the scenery and costumes were stuck in the French capital, and Verdi's Rigoletto was performed instead. Aida eventually premiered in Cairo in late 1871.
Aida stage photo
Aida stage photo
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Franco Zeffirelli, director of Aidas, born in 1923, is an Italian director and producer of operas, films and television. He is also a former senator (1994–2001) for the Italian centre-right Forza Italia party. Recently Italian researchers have found that he is one of the few distant relatives of Leonardo da Vinci.
Some of his operatic designs and productions have become worldwide classics.
He is also known for several of the movies he has directed, especially the 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. His 1967 version of The Taming of the Shrew with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton remains the best-known film adaptation of that play as well. His miniseries Jesus of Nazareth (1977) won acclaim and is still shown on Christmas and Easter in many countries.
A Grande Ufficiale OMRI of the Italian Republic since 1977, Zeffirelli also received an honorary knighthood from the British government in 2004 when he was created a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.He was awarded the Premio Colosseo in 2009 by the city of Rome.
Conductor: Donato Renzetti
Donato Renzetti, conductor of Aidas. He is one of the world's most famous Italian conductors. Former conductor of the Italian International Orchestra, Tuscan Orchestra's chief conductor, the Portuguese National Symphony Orchestra's chief guest conductor. Has been on the stage of the famous international opera and music festivals: Greenburn Music Festival, Scala Opera House, Verona Amphitheater and so on.
Conductor: Donato Renzetti
Walter Fraccaro acts Radames on 9/8,10
Walter Fraccaro is regularly invited to perform on the world’s most prestigious stages, including: Teatro alla Scala in Milan; Wiener Staatsoper; the Metropolitan Opera in New York; Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich; Deutsche Oper Berlin; Teatro Real in Madrid; San Francisco Opera; Hamburgische Staatsoper; Opernhaus Zürich; Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona; Arena di Verona; Maggio Musicale in Florence; Teatro La Fenice in Venice; Teatro San Carlo in Naples; Opera in Rome; Teatro Massimo in Palermo; and Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa.
His vast repertory includes, among many others: Aida (Radamès); Stiffelio (title role); Un Ballo in Maschera (Riccardo); Nabucco (Ismaele); Attila (Foresto); Simon Boccanegra (Gabriele); Macbeth (Macduff); La Forza del Destino (Alvaro); Don Carlo (title role); Luisa Miller (Rodolfo); Il Trovatore (Manrico); La Bohème (Rodolfo); Tosca (Cavaradossi); Madama Butterfly (Pinkerton); Mefistofele (Faust); Carmen (Don José); La Gioconda (Enzo); Turandot (Calaf); Manon Lescaut (Renato Des Grieux); Andrea Chenier (title role); La Fanciulla del West (Dick Johnson); and Cavalleria Rusticana (Turiddu).
Csilla Boross acts Aida on 9/8,10
Csilla Boross
On March 20th. 2010 she was awarded the highest cultural award in the field of opera, the so-called Thalie 2009 Award for her outstanding performance of Madama Butterfly. In the same year she also received the professional award of the Brno Theatre, the Diva 2009 Prize.
In the same year she was hugely successful as Manon in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut on the stage of the Berlioz Opera House in Montpellier; the production was directed by Jean-Paul Scarpitta. She also sang the role of Tosca at the Rome Caracalla with Carlo Guelfi as Scarpia. The latter performance was directed by Arnaud Bernard, the conductor was Ascher Fisch.
Her 2015-16 season was launched with Verdi’s Nabucco–as Abigaille she had a roaring success at the first night of Opera Pittsburg. Returning to Budapest, she had her debut as Elisabetta di Valois in Verdi’s Don Carlos at the Erkel Theatre in November, and in February as Leonora in La Forza del destino in Geneva( broadcast worldwide ).
At the end of the season she made her house debute in Opera de Marseille as Lady Macbeth after which she returned for the fifth time to Rome, this time with her beloved Abigaille of Nabucco.
In 2016 she received the prestigious Hungarian Order of Merit Knight's Cross for her outstanding performances abroad and in Hungary.
