AIDA        

Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)                                         
Opera in four acts in Italian
Libretto: Antonio Ghislanzoni
Premièr at Chairo Opera – 24 December 1871
22†, 26, 28 April - 02, 05, 08, 11, 14 May 1966                                       
Teatro alla Scala, Milano                              

Conductor: Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Chorus master: Roberto Benaglio
Stage director: Franco Zeffirelli
Scene and costumes: Lila de Nobili

Aida Amneris’ Ethiopian slave LEYLA GENCER soprano
Amneris Daughter of the King of Egypt FIORENZA COSSOTTO mezzo-soprano
                                                                GRACE BUMBRY mezzo-soprano (5, 8, 11, 14 May)
Amonasro King of Ethiopia CARLO MELICIANI
                                              GIANGIACOMO GUELFI baritone (26, 28 April, 2, 14 May)
                                              DINO DONDI baritone (5, 8 May)
                                              PIERO CAPPUCCILLI baritone (11 May)              
Radames Captain of the Egyptian Guard GIANFRANCO CECCHELE tenor
                                                                   LUIGI OTTOLINI tenor (5, 8, 11, 14  May)
Ramphis High Priest of Egypt AGOSTINO FERRIN bass
                                                 CARLO CAVA bass (8, 14 May)
The King of Egypt ANTONIO ZERBINI bass
                               FERRUCCIO MAZZOLI bass (5, 8, 14 May)
Messanger PIERO DE PALMA tenor
                  FRANCO RICCIARDI tenor (5, 8, 14 May)
Sacerdotessa MIRELLA FIORENTINI soprano

Time: Epoch of Pharaohs
Place: Memphis and Thebes

† Recording date

Photos © ERIO PICCAGLIANI, Milano

Sketches © LILA DE NOBILI / FONDAZIONE GIORGIO CINI ONLUS, Venezia
Paintings © LILA DE NOBILI
Black & White Drawings © LILA DE NOBILI




Aida
Schiava / Figurino
De Nobili, Lila
Immagine riprodotta su libro
"La Scala e l'oriente 1778-2004", a cura di Vittoria Crespi Morbio, Milano, Electa, 2004, pag 136

Aida
Schiava / Figurino
De Nobili, Lila
Immagine riprodotta su libro
"La Scala e l'oriente 1778-2004", a cura di Vittoria Crespi Morbio, Milano, Electa, 2004, pag 138

Aida
Amneris / Figurino
De Nobili, Lila
Immagine riprodotta su libro
"La Scala e l'oriente 1778-2004", a cura di Vittoria Crespi Morbio, Milano, Electa, 2004, pag 137

Aida
Costume per una schaiava / Costume di scena
De Nobili, Lila
Immagine riprodotta su libro
"La Scala e l'oriente 1778-2004", a cura di Vittoria Crespi Morbio, Milano, Electa, 2004, pag 139

Aida
Costume per una schaiava / Costume di scena
De Nobili, Lila
Immagine riprodotta su libro
"La Scala e l'oriente 1778-2004", a cura di Vittoria Crespi Morbio, Milano, Electa, 2004, pag 140


Act I Scene I (Photo)
Act I Scene I (Drawing)
Act I Scene I (Drawing)
Act I Scene II (Drawing)
Act I Scene II (Drawing)
Act I Scene II (Painting)
Act II Scene I (Painting)
Act II Scene I (Drawing)
Act II Scene I (Drawing)
Act II Scene II (Painting)
Act II Scene II (Painting)
Act II Scene II (Drawing)
Act II Scene II (Photo)
Act II Scene II (Painting)
Act III (Drawing)
Act III (Drawing)
Act IV (Drawing)
















Aida

Amneris

A Slave

Dancers

Courtier

Extras I

Extras II

Extras III

Extras IV

Extras V

Extras VI

Extras VII

Radames

Status of Anubi







































































































CONTRACT FOR THE PERFORMANCES

1966

AVANTI                                                

1965.11.12                                                                                             

CORRIERE DELLA SERA                                                
1966.04.22                                                                                          
AVANTI                                                
1966.04.23                                                                                             

CORRIERE DELLA SERA                                                
1966.04.23                                                                                             

IL PICCOLO                                        
1966.04.23  

LA STAMPA                                                
1966.04.23                                                                                           

THE PETALUMA ARGUS-COURIER                                              
1966.05.12

CORRIERE DELLA SERA                                        
1966.05.24

YENİ GAZETE                                        
1966.05.24

OPERA MAGAZINE
1966 June

Milan. It was good to be back at La Scala at the end of April after two seasons' absence. This was the period of the Milan Fair and showed the Scala at its best in Don Giovanni and its worst in Aida, with a generally enjoyable, if not outstanding, La Forza del Destino in between. ....................... Aida on April 22 had been a great disappointment. I have rarely heard so bad a performance of this work in a major house, and for this Gianandrea Gavazenni's unidiomatic and wayward conducting was mostly to blame. He pulled the music out of shape so badly that some of it was barely recognizable, and he was rewarded by a volley of hisses from all parts of the house for his pains. Leyla Gencer was miscast as Aida. Only in the Nile scene, with its long lyrical passages, could she use her beautiful soft notes — elsewhere she had to force her voice; and her interpretation was cool and reserved. Fiorenza Cossotto walked through the part of Amneris and had not one seen her excellent performance of this part elsewhere, one would never have believed her to be the outstanding artist she is. The young tenor, Gianfranco Cecchele, was making his Scala debut as Radames. He looked and sounded scared out of his wits. In any case he is a light-lyric tenor — or at least that is what he sounded like — and if he continues to sing heroic roles as he is at the moment, I cannot imagine how he can stay the course. Giangiacomo Guelfi being ill, the reliable but uninspiring Carlo Meliciani was pressed into service as Amonasro. Antonio Zerbini was a less than regal King, and Agostino Ferrin a minor canon rather than a High Priest. The famous Zeffirelli production looked magnificent; and the Triumph Scene, with several hundred people on the stage and with Arab steeds charging down to the footlights as if they were about to leap over the orchestra pit into the stalls, was visually the most exciting I have ever seen.

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