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 071685)

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

Aida (410 092-2)