Kings Felipe and Letizia It will open the lyric season of 2022-2023. Teatro Real, which will kick off with a reenactment of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera ‘Aida’, was announced at a press conference this Monday by Real’s managing director, Ignacio García-Belenguer.
will function A total of 20 functions available until 14 November 2022, From the hands of set designer Hugo de Ana, the musical director of the piece is Nicola Luisotti, Daniel Oren (7) and Diego García Rodríguez (1), who will be responsible for the music in thirteen performances.
On this occasion, ‘Aida’ Under the production of Hugo de AnaHe revealed that he introduced minor changes regarding the 2018 revision, updating some elements such as projections designed to transcend the connotation of an idealized East.
The set designer, in detail, on this occasion generating a strong symbolic powerIt is dominated by a massive pyramid that asserts the magnificence of political and religious power, contrasting with desert landscapes that highlight the deep loneliness of the characters caught between emotions, doubts and contradictions.
“As Real has matured, so has production. What we did almost 25 years ago is not the same as what we do now. Aida’s concept is based on a well-known and maturing set design base. Today, I think the most important thing in the work is the interrelationship of all the characters.“Hugo de Ana stated.
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Three different cast members will take part in the interpretation of Aida’s lead roles, alternating with soprano Krassimira Stoyanova, Roberta Mantegna and Anna Netrebko (Aida). She will sing twice as many as she planned while replacing María Agrestawho had to suspend his participation in the opera for “personal reasons”.
So Anna Netrebko will sing as planned on October 30 and November 2, as well as on October 25 and November 5 and 8. Krassimira Stoyanova will sing on October 24, 28 and 31 and on November 3, 6, 9 and 12; and Roberta Mantegna will do so on October 26 and November 4, 10 and 13.
royal theater Closing the decision-making of 29 October and 11 and 14 November functionsThat Agresta also plans to sing.
The cast includes mezzo-sopranos Jamie Barton, Sonia Ganassi and Ketevan Kemoklidze (Amneris); tenors Piotr Beczala, Yusif Eyvazov and Jorge de León (Radamés); baritones Carlos Álvarez, Artur Rucinski and Gevorg Hakobyan (Amonasro) and bassists Alexander Vinogradov; Jongmin Park and Simon Orfila (Ramfis); sopranos Jaquelina Livieri and Marta Bauzá (Great Sister) and tenor Fabián Lara (A Messenger).
a total of 300 artists
Musician Nicola Luisotti said the opera will feature around 300 artists, including soloists, choirs, dancers, actors and orchestras, in an effort to give Verdi’s work its “true universal dimension”.
“Aida is a very old story of love, friendship, jealousy and war, so it’s a story that everyone seems to be talking about.”commented.
On this occasion, the production of ‘Aida’, originally conceived in 1998, is being produced in partnership with the Abu Dhabi Foundation for Music and Arts. Eight performances were presented in 1998, directed by Luis Antonio García Navarro, and took place in 353 that took place in the seasons before the theater closed in 1925.