Aida

Conductor Dominic Limburg Stage Director Benedikt von Peter Set Design Katrin Wittig Costume Design Lene Schwind Video Bert Zander Chorus Director Jeremy Bines Il re Tobias Kehrer Amneris Judit Kutasik Aida Christina Nilsson Radames SeokJong Baek Ramfis Byung Gil Kim Amonasro Michael Bachtadze Un messaggero Kangyoon Shine Lee Una sacerdotessa Maria Motolygina Chorus Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin Orchestra Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin “Amore, sommissione, dolcezza” – the traits that Giuseppe Verdi gave his eponymous heroine, Aida, who embodies pure love, tenderness and submissiveness. And these characteristics put her firmly in the tradition of 19th-century female protagonists who were not so much fully rounded personalities as sex objects and a focus for male fantasies, women whose inevitable fate was to die of a broken heart. And Aida is no different. ...