Aida

Love and duty collide as nations clash. Verdi’s sharply relevant opera of love and war returns, with Angel Blue and Ivan Gyngazov as the doomed lovers. Michele Mariotti conducts. The story of Aida Where do your loyalties lie? As Egypt prepares to launch an attack on Ethiopia, the ambitious soldier Radames readies to serve his country. But his secret love for Aida, an Ethiopian prisoner concealing her true identity, has grave consequences. As political conflict deepens, the lovers’ truths threaten to emerge, forcing a terrible choice between loyalty to home – and to each other. Read the full synopsis Egypt is at war with Ethiopia. Aida, daughter of the Ethiopian King Amon