Aida (410 092-2)
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- 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)
[edit] Cast
[edit] Orchestra
- Orchestra: Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala Milano
- Conductor: Claudio Abbado
[edit] Choir
- Chorus: Coro del Teatro alla Scala Milano
- Chorus assistant: Romano Gandolfi
- Conductor: Gabriele Bellini
[edit] 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
