Aida - Ticket for the Opera Season 2008

Aida opened the first season of the Arena di Verona Opera Festival and it is certainly considered the opera of Verdi mostly linked to the Veronese ancient Roman amphitheatre.

Aida is an opera in 4 acts. Music by Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni and original draft by Auguste Mariette; this opera was then re-worked by Camille Du Locle with Verdi himself.
The story takes place in the Ancient Egypt and it premièred on 24th December 1871 at the Cairo Opera House, only more than one year later than the opening of the Suez Canal: the opera was in fact requested right for the celebration of this important event.

On 8th February 1872 Aida was performed at "La Scala" theatre in Milan obtaining such a great success as never before. The most important theatres both in Italy and in Europe asked for Aida performance: this was only the beginning of a very long series of different settings that consecrated Aida as one of Verdi's well-known masterpieces among all his lyric works. In 1913 Aida opened the first season of the Arena di Verona Opera Festival and this can be considered the beginning of a long successful story.