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When love and loyalty collide in ancient Egypt, it can only end in tragedy. Verdi’s stunning masterwork Aida returns to the Metropolitan Opera House, led by Grammy Award-winning soprano Angel Blue, making her long-awaited Met debut in the iconic titular role. You won’t want to miss out on this star-studded, “ingenious take” (Financial Times) on one of the best-known and most beloved operas of all time.

What is the opera Aida about?

Set in “ancient Egypt, in the time of the pharaohs”, Verdi’s heartrending tragic opera in four acts about love, loyalty and deception has moved audiences for centuries; at the Met alone Aida has been sung over 1000 times since 1886. This breathtaking new staging by Michael Mayer uses spectacular projections and animations to bring the Met audiences into the gilded world of ancient Eygpt.

Ethiopian princess Aida has been captured and enslaved by the Egyptians, who are unaware of her true identity. Despite her captivity, Aida has fallen in love with ambitious Egyptian soldier General Radamès. Radamès is secretly in love with Aida too, despite believing her to be a lowly prisoner, and the pair must contend with the jealousy of Aida’s Egyptian mistress Amneris, who will stop at nothing to claim Radamès for herself. When Aida’s father King Amonasro invades Egypt to free his daughter, Radamès is chosen to lead a war against the Ethiopians and the lovers are forced to decide which is more important... their love for one another, or loyalty to their countries?

Who are the cast of creatives of Aida?

Grammy-winning Soprano Angel Blue (La Bohème, Dido and Aeneas) stars as Aida, with Christina Nilsson (Elektra, Ariadne auf Naxos) also making her Met debut as the lead role in March. Mezzo-sopranos Judit Kutasi (La Forza del Destino, La Gioconda) and Elīna Garanča (Carmen, Il barbiere di Siviglia) share the role of Amneris, Aida’s Egyptian love rival, with tenors Piotr Beczała (Faust, Rigoletto), SeokJong Baek (Nabucco, Tosca), and Brian Jagde (Arabella, The Queen of Spades) alternating the role of Radamès.

The cast also includes baritones Quinn Kelsey (La Bohème), Amartuvshin Enkhbat (La Traviata), and Roman Burdenko (Rigoletto) as Amonasro and basses Dmitry Belosselskiy (Nabucco), Alexander Vinogradov (Luisa Miller) as Ramfis, Morris Robinson (Fidelio) as Ramfis and The King, and bass Krzysztof Bączyk (Don Giovanni) as The King.

Grammy Award winner and Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts, with Alexander Soddy (La Bohème, Pelléas et Mélisande), general music director at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, sharing conducting duties in March.

Who wrote Aida?

Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901) composed 26 operas, including Rigoletto, Otelloand La Traviatta, over half of which are considered to be a key part of the operatic canon today. Antonio Ghislanzoni (1824–93), the librettist for Aida, was a poet and novelist, as well as a prolific librettist, who created 85 other works, including La forza del destino and Fosca. Aida was first commissioned by Cairo's Khedivial Opera House, premiering there on Christmas Eve 1871 and is often considered to be based on an idea by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette (1821-1881).

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Be sure to catch operatic superstar Angel Blue’s heartwrenching performance in one of opera's definitive roles. Don’t miss Verdi’s grandiose, moving and tragic opera Aida this new year at the Metropolitan Opera - book now!