Verdi's AIDA
LIVE IN HD: Saturday, January 25th, 2025 at 12:30pm
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• Soprano Angel Blue, known for her celebrated turns in the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (2020), Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones (2021), and Puccini’s La Rondine (2024), makes her Met role debut as the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country, one of opera’s defining roles. • Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium for Michael Mayer’s spectacular new staging, which brings audiences inside the towering pyramids and gilded tombs of ancient Egypt with intricate projections and dazzling animations. • Star tenor Piotr Beczała is the soldier Radamès, and mezzo soprano Judit Kutasi, following her 2024 debut in Verdi’s La Forza del Destino, is Aida’s Egyptian rival Amneris—completing opera’s greatest love triangle. The all-star cast also features baritone Quinn Kelsey as Amonasro and bass Dmitry Belosselskiy as Ramfis. • Verdi’s Aida is one of the most performed operas in history, notable for its soaring arias—including the tenor’s popular “Celeste Aida”—rousing choruses, and displays of grand pageantry, most notably the unforgettable Triumphal Scene in Act II. |
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