Aida Opera by Giuseppe Verdi 2017

Date: Sept 8-10 — 8 pm Venue: Guangzhou Opera House Price: 280-2,280 yuan 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 PhillipsMatz argues that the source is actually Temistocle Solera. Contact: 010-6655-0000