An Introduction to Verdi: Aida by Thomson Smillie

An Introduction to Verdi: Aida

Opera Explained

Thomson Smillie with Giuseppe Verdi, David Timson (Narrator)

1 hour, 3 minutes first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction music
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Ancient Egypt and the war with Ethiopia is the setting for Verdi’s grandest opera. It is the story of the love between Rhadames, the Egyptian general and Aida, an Ethiopian slave, and the jealousy of Amneris, daughter of the King of Egypt. It was ...

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