Aida

About the Event

The Finnish National Opera brings "Aida", one of the best‐known works in the opera repertoire, to the stage this season.

Verdi’s Aida is a magnificent and spectacular grand opera but also a sensitive and intimate tale of the forbidden love of an Egyptian military commander and an Ethiopian slave. Director Georg Rootering and his team have retained the original story, but they also highlight the universal nature of the narrative. “We decided to mix up the times; we move between ancient Egypt and our own time,” Rootering says.
 
A charming 1920s Art Deco style hotel provides the framework for the production, combining public and private spaces, and Egypt is in the visual details.
 
Performed in Italian, surtitles in Finnish, Swedish and English.

Conductor: Michael Güttler
Director: Georg Rootering
Sets: Bernd Franke
Costumes: Götz Lanzelot Fischer
Lighting design: Ilkka Paloniemi
Choreography: Marilena Fontoura

Aida: Veronika Dzhioeva
Amneris: Lilli Paasikivi
Ramfis: NN
Radames: Mika Pohjonen

Amonasro: Jorge Lagunes
King of Egypt: NN
Messenger: Juha Riihimäki
High priestess: NN