Coming up in the Rhumbelow Classics
Cinema - On The Big Screen programme is Aida presented by Royal Opera
(live streamed on October 12, 2022).
The film will be screened at Rhumbelow Theatre on November 15, 2022, at 18h00. (Venue opens 60 minutes before show for snacks/drinks)
Music: Giuseppe Verdi
Director: Robert Carsen
Set designer: Miriam Buether
Costume designer: Annemarie Woods
Lighting designer: Robert Carsen and Peter
van Praet
Video designer: Duncan McLean
Choreographer: Rebecca Howell
Conducted by: Antonio Pappano
Aida: Elena Stikhina
Radames: Francesco Meli
Amneris: Agnieszka Rehlis
Amonasro: Ludovic Tézier
Ramfis: Soloman Howard
King of Egypt: In Sung Sim
Royal Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
A co-production with Lyric Opera of Chicago
Running time: 2 hours & 50 minutes
(including one interval)
Language:
Sung in Italian with English subtitles
Princess Aida has been kidnapped: a
valuable prize in a war between Egypt and Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the ambitious
soldier Radames wrestles with his feelings for her. As they draw closer
together, each must make an agonizing choice between their loyalty to home, and
their love for each other.
In this new production, director Robert Carsen situates Verdi’s large-scale political drama within a contemporary world, framing its power struggles and toxic jealousies in the apparatus of a modern, totalitarian state. Royal Opera Music Director Antonio Pappano conducts Verdi’s glorious, monumental score.
Tickets R100. Booking is essential on email: roland@stansell.co.za or through Computicket.
Picnic baskets may be brought to the venue, or food can be purchased onsite – burgers, wors rolls, chicken pops and chips, cheesy Russians, snack baskets etc. A full bar is available (no alcohol may be brought on to the premises). The venue opens 90 minutes before each show for snacks/drinks.
All seating will be at separate tables and the venue will obviously be seating co-habiting couples and/or family members together.
Limited secure parking is available.
For more information contact Roland Stansell on 082 499 8636 or visit http://events.durbantheatre.com/
The Rhumbelow Theatre is situated at 42 Cunningham Road, off Bartle Road, Umbilo, Durban.
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