Aida 2019

The opera Aida by Giuseppe Verdi, staged by the iconic film and theater director Franco Zeffirelli.

The legendary Franco Zeffirelli staged this version of the opera Aida in 2001 in Busseto, Verdi's birthplace, on the 100th anniversary of the great composer's death. Zeffirelli's production premiered at the Verdi Festival. In Tbilisi, Aida was staged by Franco Zeffirelli's permanent assistant Stefano Trespidi.

The opera Aida was written by Giuseppe Verdi at the request of the Egyptian Khedive Ismail Pasha for the newly opened Cairo Opera House. The libretto was written by Antonio Ghislanzoni based on a script by the Egyptologist Auguste Marietta. The action takes place in Memphis and Thebes during the reign of the pharaohs. The opera tells about the unhappy love of the leader of the Egyptian troops, Radames, and the slave Aida, the daughter of the Ethiopian king, with whose troops the Egyptians are fighting.

Since 2017 the designs of the costumes by Manuel Carrera Cordon and his team have been presented in this opera.