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"Aida" will be presented at Yerevan Opera on March 21 and 23
Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Aida" will be presented again on the stage of the National Opera and Ballet Theater of Armenia on March 21 and 23.
Musical director and conductor of the performance: Karen Durgaryan (honored artist of the Republic of Armenia), conductor: Harutyun Arzumanyan, stage director: Mario Corradi (Italy), stage artist: Avetis Barseghyan (honored artist of the Republic of Armenia).
The premiere of today's "Aida" took place in December 2010 at A. Spendiaryan National Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet. More than 350 employees from the creative staff of the Theater are involved in the performance.
Aida met with great acclaim when it finally opened in Cairo on 24 December 1871. The costumes and accessories for the première were designed by Auguste Mariette, who also oversaw the design and construction of the sets, which were made in Paris by the Opéra's scene painters Auguste-Alfred Rubé and Philippe Chaperon (acts 1 and 4) and Édouard Desplechin and Jean-Baptiste Lavastre (acts 2 and 3), and shipped to Cairo. Although Verdi did not attend the premiere in Cairo, he was most dissatisfied with the fact that the audience consisted of invited dignitaries, politicians, and critics, but no members of the general public. He, therefore, considered the Italian (and European) première, held at La Scala, Milan on 8 February 1872, and a performance in which he was heavily involved at every stage, to be its real première.
The Armenian premiere of the opera took place in 1941.
Musical director and conductor of the performance: Karen Durgaryan (honored artist of the Republic of Armenia), conductor: Harutyun Arzumanyan, stage director: Mario Corradi (Italy), stage artist: Avetis Barseghyan (honored artist of the Republic of Armenia).
The premiere of today's "Aida" took place in December 2010 at A. Spendiaryan National Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet. More than 350 employees from the creative staff of the Theater are involved in the performance.
Aida met with great acclaim when it finally opened in Cairo on 24 December 1871. The costumes and accessories for the première were designed by Auguste Mariette, who also oversaw the design and construction of the sets, which were made in Paris by the Opéra's scene painters Auguste-Alfred Rubé and Philippe Chaperon (acts 1 and 4) and Édouard Desplechin and Jean-Baptiste Lavastre (acts 2 and 3), and shipped to Cairo. Although Verdi did not attend the premiere in Cairo, he was most dissatisfied with the fact that the audience consisted of invited dignitaries, politicians, and critics, but no members of the general public. He, therefore, considered the Italian (and European) première, held at La Scala, Milan on 8 February 1872, and a performance in which he was heavily involved at every stage, to be its real première.
The Armenian premiere of the opera took place in 1941.
