Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

AIDA

An opera in four acts.
Libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni after Camille Du Locle´s French text based on the Scénario anonyme attribué à Auguste Mariette (1870).
First performed in Cairo, Khedivial Opera House, 24 December 1871.

Conductor:  Elio Boncompagni
Stage director: András Mikó
Revised production: Jere Erkkilä
Stage and costume designer:  Seppo Nurmimaa
Choreographer:  Heikki Värtsi
Répétiteur: Ulrika Hallberg
Lighting designer: Kimmo Ruskela
Chorus master: Matti Hyökki
Make-up and hair: Jani Kylmälä

This Verdi masterpiece of mammoth proportions, complete with vast crowd scenes, dancers and marching soldiers, is matched to perfection in Olavinlinna Castle in the production directed by András Mikó and visualised by Seppo Nurmimaa. The stirring effects of this opera set in ancient Egypt do not, however, detract from the tragic triangle drama acted out on the stage.

The military fortunes of the Egyptians and the Ethiopians wax and wane, but the ultimate victor is the masterly music of Giuseppe Verdi captured as nowhere else in the splendid acoustics of Olavinlinna Castle. Aida, the Savonlinna Opera Festival’s greatest spectacle, will be taking the Castle by storm again in summer 2012.

Performances: 
7.7. (premiere),
11.7., 13.7., 17.7., 19.7., 25.7.

Aida will be sung in Italian. Finnish and English surtitles.

The performance begins at 19.00 and ends at about 22.15. One interval.

Cast:

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Amneris, his daughter, mezzo-soprano:
Anna Smirnova        

Aida, Amneris´s Ethiopian slave, soprano:  
Kristin Lewis 7.7., 11.7., 13.7.
Csilla Boross 17.7., 19.7., 25.7. 
   
Radamès, Captain of the Egyptian Guard, tenor:     
Johan Botha

Ramfis, High Priest, bass: 
Mikhail Kazakov 7.7., 13.7., 19.7.
Mika Kares 11.7., 17.7., 25.7.     

Amonasro, King of Ethiopia, Aida´s father, baritone: 
Fikile Mvinjelwa 7.7., 13.7., 19.7.
Vladimir Moroz 11.7., 17.7., 25.7.  

A messenger, tenor: 
Petri Bäckström  

Priestess, soprano:     
Marjukka Tepponen 7.7., 11.7., 13.7., 25.7.
Hanna Rantala 17.7., 19.7.

Dancers:
Andrea Bena, Linda Haakana, Petia Ilieva,
Antti Keinänen, Nikolas Koskivirta,
Virve Olsson, Aki Pakarinen, Emmi Pennanen.
Evaldas Bielinis, Milla Eloranta,
Tiia Huuskonen, Elena Ilyina,
Emilia Karmitsa, Kare Länsivuori,
Jarkko Niininen, Susanna Sell, Aapo Siikala, Teemu Tainio, Emre Tanis, Marja-Terttu Wilman.                         

Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra
Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir

 2.5.2012 Alterations possible.