Aida

from Giuseppe Verdi


Libretto

Antonio Ghislanzoni
after a scenario by Auguste Mariette and
a French prose vesion by Camille du Locle

Premiere

24 December 1871, Cairo (Opera House)

Cast

THE KING (bass)
AMNERIS (mezzo-soprano)
AIDA (soprano)
RADAMÈS (tenor)
RAMFIS (bass)
AMONASRO (baritone)
HIGH PRIESTESS (soprano)
MESSENGER (tenor)

CHORUS
priests, priestesses, ministers, captains, soldiers, functionaries,
slaves and Ethiopian prisoners, Wgyptian people

Place

Time

In the time of the Pharaohs

Composer

Verdi, Giuseppe