Òpera Aida

Verdi's opera in a production by Iranian artist Shirin Neshat that opens the season at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, with Anna Netrebko and Anna Pirozzi in the role of Aida.

This production of Verdi's opera Aida comes to the Gran Teatre del Liceu in a staged reading by Shirin Neshat, from the Salzburg Festival. The staging places the drama in a universe of strong symbolic weight, with a visual approach that engages with identity, exile, oppression and the fragility of power.

The plot follows Aida, an enslaved Ethiopian princess, and Radamès, an Egyptian hero, whose clandestine love challenges a system that condemns him. The finale, in the tomb, is presented as a space of freedom in which death takes on a sense of emotional and spiritual liberation.

The cast includes Anna Netrebko and Anna Pirozzi as Aida, Yusif Eyvazov and Piotr Beczała as Radamès, Ekaterina Semenchuk and Ksenia Dudnikova as Amneris, and Artur Ruciński and Igor Golovatenko as Amonasro. The musical direction is by Antonello Manacorda.