Next Saturday, the Apollo cinema will host the famous trumpets of Aida, the famous opera by Guiseppe Verdi.
With its thrilling score and poignant story of love and heroism, the timeless masterpiece returns to the Metropolitan Opera in New York. A brand new production is being offered, it teleports spectators to the heart of ancient Egypt with the help of elaborate projections and dazzling animations. Michael Mayer’s staging is resolutely spectacular, with grandiose sets, exuberant costumes, and, on stage, real horses, processions, imposing groups of dancers, in short, it’s a real epic disproportionate which is offered to the spectator taking him into imposing pyramids, alongside the golden tombs. For the story, Aida is an Ethiopian princess held captive in Egypt, Amneris, considers her a rival because she is loved by Radamès, the leader of the armies.
When the latter returns victorious from a campaign against Ethiopia, Aida is convinced that her father, King Amonasro, died in battle. But disguised as a simple soldier, he survived and proposes to his daughter a plot to discover the military secrets of the Egyptians. Created in 1871, for the Cairo Opera, on a plot by Mariette, the famous Egyptologist, Aida has since been a huge success, particularly known for the trumpets of its triumphal march, so often repeated.
-Soprano Angel Blue, discovered in George Gershwin’s George Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess, makes her Met debut as the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country, one of the defining roles of the opera, a grandiose melodrama which will see the lovers reunited in death.
This new production is scheduled at the Apollo cinema, Saturday January 25 at 6:30 p.m., for a show in four acts, in Italian with French subtitles.
