Aida
movie
View on VideBits →Any performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida at La Scala, Milan, is guaranteed to be an experience – but, when it’s a new production, it becomes a major event, especially given the theatre’s notoriously critical audience. Legendary stage director Peter Stein succeeds in delivering a lucid production acclaimed in equal measure by the press and public: “a perfect coup de théâtre” (Giornale della musica). A “stellar cast” (La Stampa) contributes to the production’s success under the musical direction of Verdi specialist Zubin Mehta, who leads the orchestra in a “gorgeously colourful performance”, while “the entire ensemble is brilliant in its portrayal of the characters” (Die Presse).
Cast & crew
Anita Rachvelishvili · Azer Rza-Zada · Carlo Colombara · Chiara Isotton · Fabio Sartori · George Gagnidze · Kristin Lewis · Matti Salminen · Zubin Mehta · Peter Stein · Tiziano Mancini