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Any performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida at La Scala, Milan, is guaranteed to be an experience – but, when it’s a new production, it becomes a major event, especially given the theatre’s notoriously critical audience. Legendary stage director Peter Stein succeeds in delivering a lucid production acclaimed in equal measure by the press and public: “a perfect coup de théâtre” (Giornale della musica). A “stellar cast” (La Stampa) contributes to the production’s success under the musical direction of Verdi specialist Zubin Mehta, who leads the orchestra in a “gorgeously colourful performance”, while “the entire ensemble is brilliant in its portrayal of the characters” (Die Presse).

Venus has promised Paris that he can have the most beautiful woman in the world: Hélène. Unfortunately, however, she is married. After much subterfuge, Paris succeeds in seducing Helen. Their affair is discovered by Menelaus, her husband, and they flee together.

Hits like 'La donna è mobile', 'Sempre libera' and many more from the most popular Verdi operas such as Aida, La Traviata, Il Trovatore, Rigoletto etc. Great Singers: Nino Machaidze, Leo Nucci, Daniela Dessì, Marcelo Álvarez, Francesco Meli, Dimitra Theodossiou, Giacomo Prestia and more. A beautiful visual festival of great stagings, costumes and settings (staged by Pier Luigi Pizzi, Stephen Medcalf, etc).