It concerns the impossible love between the Ethiopian slave Aida and an Egyptian military commander, Radamès. The opera is set in ancient Egypt and indeed had its 1871 premiere in Cairo, having been commissioned by the city's Khedivial Opera House.
So I love his courage to say to the people: 'You have to choose. "And there will be people who will accept it and will love it. "And there will be people who will say, 'No, this is not Aida. “I think Maestro (Chailly) is the type of musician who likes and loves to discover new, interesting things in music. The Georgian Mezzo-Soprano Anita Rachvelishvili, who sings the role of the powerful pharoah's daughter Amneris, was delighted to take part in this new version under Chailly's guidance:
"This is what it is: almost a hundred bars of music.”įrancesco Meli, who portrays Radamès, is excited about a particular addition in the new version of the third act: “The chorus sings one wonderful polyphonic moment.” Euronews “When we're speaking about a genius like Giuseppe Verdi, obviously, if there is a possibility of searching for something we don't know, I think it is only an enrichment for everybody and certainly a discovery of great music. The noted Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly, who presented the new version at La Scala, is delighted that this initriguing variant has been made public - and now even performed: The musicologist Alessandra Carlotta Pellegrini has described the documents as like looking into “the workshop of the composer.” Many of them were crammed into folders with "burn these papers" scribbled on the front of them an instruction which, fortunately for Verdi enthusiasts, was never carried out. It was discovered in a locked trunk at the composer's family villa along with 5,000 other documents of his. This alternative Aida - with an extensively different third act - was made public only last year, after an extensive Verdi archive was finally made public.Īlthough rapturously received, this new version of Aida might never have been performed. This time, it was performed in a previously unknown first version. Yet it managed to have a different world premiere at Milan's celebrated La Scala opera house this October - where it also received its European premiere in 1872. Aida is, of course, a world-famous opera, composed by Verdi and premiered in 1871.
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