Verdi: Aida- San Francisco Opera
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Movies/TV › Performing Arts - Opera
UPC: 032031225190 / Publisher: Kultur Video, June 2004
An Egyptian general loves an Ethiopian slave, actually a princess, instead of the king's daughter. From the Verdi opera.
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This 1985 production of Verdi's operatic masterpiece as marked the Pavarotti's (long-awaited) first Italian performance in the role of Ramades. Staged in the magnificently opulent setting of La Scala, this AIDA gets the lush treatment it deserves. The story of a pharoah's love for a slave in the exotic and Biblical setting of Ancient Egypt, AIDA is arguably one of the most adored operas ever written.
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