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Verdi: Aida

6.0 158 mins Music   2006
Decca  
Director(s): Franco Zeffirelli Patrizia Carmine

Early recordings of Franco Zeffirelli's 2006 production of Verdi's opera which saw Roberto Alagna's high-profile exit during the second performance. Egypt and Ethiopia are at war. Radames is appointed commander of the Egyptian forces by the King, whose daughter, Amneris, loves Radames. It is in fact Amneris' Ethiopian slave Aida whom Radames loves. Ramades wins the war against the Ethiopians, capturing Aida's father Amonasro in the process. On his return to Egypt he faces a choice between marrying Amneris or betraying his country through his love for Aida.

Casts of Verdi: Aida

Violeta Urmana

as Aida

Roberto Alagna

as Radamès

Ildikó Komlósi

as Amnéris

Giorgio Giuseppini

as Ramfis

Carlo Guelfi

as Amonasro

Marco Spotti

as The King

Sae-kyung Rim

as A Priestess

Antonello Ceron

as A Messenger

Riccardo Chailly

as Conductor

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