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).
Carlo Colombara
as Il Re
Anita Rachvelishvili
as Amneris
Kristin Lewis
as Aida
Fabio Sartori
as Radamès
Matti Salminen
as Ramfis
George Gagnidze
as Amonasro
Azer Rza-Zada
as Messaggero
Chiara Isotton
as La Gran Sacerdotessa
