2/19/2023 0 Comments Houston grand opera 2013Amanasro plans to escape and counterattack with Aida’s help, leaving Aida torn between her father and her lover.Ĭontributing to the spectacle is Jorrell Lawyer-Jefferson’ dazzling choreography. Radames returns victorious from battle, bringing back several Ethiopian prisoners, including Aida’s father, King Amanasro (baritone Reginald Smith). Both Aida and Amneris are in love with Radames (tenor Russell Thomas), the young Egyptian warrior selected by the gods to lead the fight against the Ethiopians. Aida (soprano Tamara Wilson), princess of Ethiopia, is the captive slave of Amneris (soprano Melody Moore), princess of Egypt. Among the most popular operas of all time, Aida showcases the biggest and best of what the genre has to offer: larger-than-life stagecraft paired with powerhouse performances that will satisfy newcomers and connoisseurs alike.Ĭommissioned by the Ottoman viceroy of Egypt in 1870, Aida tells a fictional story suggested to Verdi by leading Egyptologist Auguste Mariette: Egypt and Ethiopia are at war. Giuseppi Verdi’s Aida returns to the Wortham Center in a triumphant production that puts the “grand” in Houston Grand Opera.
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