The Aida is staged at the San Carlo Theater, in a colossal and spectacular staging by Franco Dragone
Il 5 December 2013 the 2013 / 2014 season will be finally inaugurated Teatro San Carlo with an unprecedented representation of one of the most famous works in the world: theAida di Giuseppe Verdi.
The show is staged for the bicentenary of Verdi's birth and will be a 'Aida spectacular, made by the director Franco Dragone, creator and creator of the wonderful Cirque du Soleil, and who has every intention of making the public dream, with an engaging theater machine full of special effects, futuristic, post-apocalyptic and minimalist, which blends visual virtuosity with avant-garde technologies.
Lo show maker originally from Cairano, in the province of Avellino, he faces opera for the first time and declares to La Repubblica: "I am in love with this story, I wanted a close contact with the music, taking away everything that interferes with it", and regarding the emotions he wants to inspire in the audience: “I want them to be moved, not to be passive. I am a 'mainstream sophisticated' man. I am sophisticated and at the same time popular. I hate the culture that closes itself in patterns ”.
THEAida it was written by Giuseppe Verdi in 1869, and it is an opera in four acts realized on a libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni to be able to inaugurate the Cairo Opera House in 1871, commissioned by the Khedivè of Egypt. The following year he made his debut at the Scala in Milan. The work has always been considered "timeless", and tells the story of a great love, a war and death. Elements that, according to Franco Dragone, are still very topical:
I want emotion, I want to feel a small second of eternity in the room. My Aida is a pacifist work on fear and anguish, a work on a world that faces the unknown. Our young people are unemployed and seem to have no future. We are involved in conflicts that terrify us. Wars take victims in one field and another, trample the honor and dignity of men and women. On stage I added some figures that do not appear in the original text. They are figurants that I call the invisibles and they represent the men without speech. My Aida is not spectacular, but extremely current without being modernist. I didn't set it in a specific place, the theater has to work the imagination of the audience
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Information on the show Aida
When: from the 5 17 2013 December
Price tickets: vary according to the days and places, consult the Official site
Where: Teatro San Carlo
