Saccani / Dragoni / Johannson / + -Aida (AZ) -Naxos CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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01. Barbara Dever "Aida: Prelude"

02. Mark Rucker "Aida: Act I: Se quel guerrier io fossi! ... Celeste Aida"

03. Riccardo Ferrari "Aida: Act I: Ritorna vincitor! ... I sacri nomi di padre, d'amante"

04. Riccardo Ferrari "Aida: Act I: Dance of the Priestesses"

05. Kristjan Johannsson "Aida: Act II: Dance of the Moorish Slaves"

06. Kristjan Johannsson "Aida: Act II: Sul del Nilo al sacro lido ... Numi, pieta del mio martir"

07. Riccardo Ferrari "Aida: Act II: Gloria all' Egitto"

08. Riccardo Ferrari "Aida: Act II. Grand March"

09. Riccardo Ferrari "Aida: Act II: Ballet Music"

10. Riccardo Ferrari "Aida: Act II: Vieni, o guerrero vindice"

11. Maria Dragoni "Aida: Act III: Qui Radames verra! ... O patria mia"

12. Riccardo Ferrari "Aida: Act III: Ciel mio padre! ... Su dunque!"

13. Riccardo Ferrari "Aida: Act IV: L'Aborrita rivale a me sfuggia ... Gia i Sacerdoti"

14. Riccardo Ferrari "Aida: Act IV: Die mie discolpe"

15. Riccardo Ferrari "Aida: Act IV: Morire! Ah, tu dei vivere"

16. Riccardo Ferrari "Aida: Act IV: Chi ti salva, sciagurato"

17. Riccardo Ferrari "Aida: Act IV: E la morte un ben supremo"

18. Riccardo Ferrari "Aida: Act IV: La fatal pietra ... Morir! si pura e bella"

19. Kristjan Johannsson "Aida: Act IV: O terra, addio"

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W/ Nat.sym.orchestra Of Ireland, Rico Saccani-cond.

Description:

Verdi wrote his Egyptian opera Aida in response to a commission from the Khedive of Egypt for the opening of the new Cairo Opera House, after rejecting requests for an anthem to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal a year earlier. The first performance was conducted by the famous double-bass player Bottesini. Spectacle, of which some stage directors have made much, is provided particularly in the return of the victorious Radames in triumph. The story was the invention of the French egyptologist Auguste Mariette, elaborated in French prose by Camille Du Locle, before the final Italian text was drafted. Aida remains a popular part of Italian opera repertoire. Familiar concert excerpts from Aida inevitably include the tenor Celeste Aida (Heavenly Aida) and Aida's Ritorna vincitor (Return victorious). The grand march has celebrated many an unoperatic festivity and has allowed spectacular extravagance in more ostentatious productions of the opera. O patria mia (O my homeland) for Aida in the third act adds a particular poignancy, while the final death scene of Radames and Aida is also sometimes to be heard in dramatic isolation.

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8554706

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