Aida (410 092-2)

Product detail

Composer: Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

Libretto: Antonio Ghislanzoni

Source: after a scenario by the Egyptologist Auguste Mariette

Work: Aida

Category: Opera

Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Label code: LC 00173

Catalog number: 410092-2

Format: Audio CD

Number of Discs: 3

Running time: 140'38 (37'51 + 40'13 + 62'34)

Recording date: January and June 1981

Recording place: Milan (Italy)

Released: 1981

Barcode: UPC

Notes: same as Reader's Digest Aida (AID 071 685)

Cast

Orchestra

Orchestra: Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala Milano

Conductor: Claudio Abbado

Choir

Chorus: Coro del Teatro alla Scala Milano

Chorus assistant: Romano Gandolfi

Conductor: Gabriele Bellini

Performer

The king of Egypt: Ruggero Raimondi, bass

Amneris, his daughter, Elena Obraztsova, mezzo-soprano

Ramfis, chief priest: Nicolai Ghiraurov, Bass

Radames, the Egyptian commander: Plácido Domingo, tenor

Aida, an Ethiopian slave girl: Katia Ricciarelli, soprano

Amonasro, King of Ethiopia, her father, Leo Nucci, baritone

A messenger: Piero de Palma, tenor

A Temple Singer: Lucia Valentini Terrani, soprano