stunning...so stunning I kept listening to it a few times despite the horror sound quality and low video resolution. thank you for uploading this performance.
We’ve attended this amazing, spectacular performance at the Met six times. We never get tired of it. It’s a shame it’s being retired with a new production.
Sublime regia ora finale un capolavoro supremo anche questa meravigliosa edizione storica storici del 1989 spettacolare mi commuovo tantissimo un capolavoro assoluto kolossal storico❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ perfezione estetica visiva della regia
Essa espetacular produção foi concebida originalmente para o Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro, onde estreou em 1986, com uma fantástica performance de Aprile Millo, que ficou para a História da Ópera no Brasil.
Que maravilha saber disso. Não sabia. Pena que no Brasil atualmente a ópera é escassa, por falta de estímulo e verba, mesmo com tantas leis incentivando cultura. E e acho que má-vontade também. É triste pensar que os grandes teatros do Rj e Sp, até mesmo o Amazonas, viam dezenas de óperas em um só ano no último século cantadas por estrelas e hoje temos apenas 3-4 por temporada, quando damos sorte.
0:02:08 Prelude Act I Scene 1 0:05:39 Si, corre voce 0:07:08 Se quel guerrier io fossi 0:08:00 Heavenly Aida 0:11:31 Quale insolita gioia 0:14:34 Vieni o diletta 0:17:18 (Ramfis enters) 0:17:58 Alta cagion v'aduna 0:19:33 Guerra, guerra, guerra! 0:20:30 Su! del Nilo al sacro lido! 0:22:35 Guerra, guerra, guerra! 0:23:34 Ritorna vincitor! Act I Scene 2 0:31:05 Possente Ftha 0:36:20 Mortal, diletto ai Numi 0:37:30 Nume, custode e vindice 0:40:46 Immenso Ftha Act II Scene 1 (0:43:09) 0:43:40 Chi mai fra gli 0:44:27 Vieni: sul crin ti piovano 0:48:12 (Aida enters) 0:48:56 Fu la sorte dell'armi 0:56:15 Su! del Nilo al sacro lido 0:57:32 (Amneris leaves Aida) Act II Scene 2 (0:59:32) 1:00:19 Gloria all'Egitto 1:02:49 (Triumphal March) 1:04:20 (Ballet) 1:08:36 (Ethiopian prisoners, Amonasro) 1:11:18 (Radames can get anything he wants) 1:13:17 Che veggo! 1:14:09 (Lie: Amonasro is dead.) 1:16:03 o Re, questi ciurme 1:19:17 (Radames: Set them free! Ramfis: not Aida and not her father.) 1:20:44 (King: Radames will be the new King.) 1:21:32 Gloria all'Egitto, Amonasro: our time will come. 1:24:09 (Triumphal March) Act III (1:26:05) 1:27:07 O tu che sei d'Osiris 1:31:13 Qui Radames verra 1:33:59 O patria mia 1:38:07 Ciel, mio padre! 1:39:30 Rivedrai le foreste 1:46:20 (Adonasro is hiding behind a rock.) 1:46:34 Pur ti riveggo, mia dolce Aida 1:47:41 Nel fiero anelito 1:49:34 Fuggiam gli ardori 1:55:45 (Radames tells the Egyptian millitary's positioning.) 1:56:21 (Adonasro reveals himself.) 1:57:53 (Egyptian guardians arrest Radames.) Act IV Scene 1 (2:01:20) 2:01:49 L'aborrita rivale a me sfuggia 2:04:22 Giá i Sacerdoti adunansi 2:10:55 (Amneris: I shouldn't betray Radames!) 2:13:19 (Radames hopes Aida is okay and she is in her homeland.) 2:16:46 (Radames remains silent against his charges.) 2:18:06 Radames, e deciso il tuo fato 2:21:05 (Amneris asks the priests to set Radames free but it's ineffective.) Act IV Scene 2 (2:22:22) 2:22:45 La fatal pietra sovra 2:24:19 (Aida is in the vault too.) 2:25:49 Morir! Si pura e bella 2:28:40 Invan! Tutto e finito 2:28:55 O terra addio 2:34:04 (Amneris cries and preys, Aida dies in the hands of Radames. They die together.)
I swear this great opera production was staged in 1929, not 1989 with all those singers masquerading in black face. You cannot convince me this production of Verdi's great opera couldn't find a person of colour in the opera world who could sung those parts in freakin 1989.
That's irrelevant now. You have productions now where Aida is white and Amneris is black. I do pity though that they used to paint singers. It was just wrong to do so. But it was a different time.
People don't appreciate old Italian music anymore. This is the music we adopted after the Jews forced us all to become Catholic. It is apart of our tradition no matter how depressing it might sound. Never forget. Italians used to be Native Americans.
