Aida (410 092-2)

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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)

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