The beginning of the story of the opera Aida at the foot of the pyramid?

We hear a lot about the opera Aida being held at the foot of the pyramid. In opera, it seems necessary for the viewer to be familiar with the story he will see before watching it. 

So that he can enjoy following the expressions that translate the meanings of the story through sound and movement, otherwise he will not understand the language in which the singing is conducted.

 It is difficult for the viewer to know what is happening in front of him, and in most cases he will be separated from the idea of the place, and his eyes will be in one direction, and the stage and his thoughts will be in other distant directions.

The beginning of the story of the opera Aida at the foot of the pyramid?

 In the beginning, Khedive Ismail greeting to his guests was to watch world-famous operetta Such as the operas Rigoletto, Trovatore, Wardani, Travian, and the Colors of Mascara 

 by Verdi), The Barber of Seville, Semiramis (by Rusty), Lucia Di Lampermore, The Elixir of Love (by Donizetti), and the famous opera Faust (by the Frenchman Juno).

 In addition to these ten briouats, he also presented the ballet Giselle from the music of Adam, but all of these works did not satisfy Khedive Ismail. 

He wanted there to be something special, a truly Egyptian opera whose idea was born from the embrace of an Egyptian idea.

Thus was Aida, whose idea was written on a single sheet of paper by the French archaeologist Merit Pasha and sent to the famous Italian maestro Ferdi, who reacted quickly to the idea. 

He immediately began arrangements for its investigation and agreed with the poet Antonio Gisela Nazoli to write its dialogue. 

An individual condition in the contract he wrote was that he would receive 150,000 francs, of which the Khedive would pay a third in advance and the rest when he presented the opera.

 At that time, the Egyptian pound was equal to 25 French francs, and an individual received 6,000 Egyptian pounds for Aida, which at that time was worth an imaginary sum.

Aida’s story???

 …. Aida’s story is a mixture of different human feelings and great scenes It is a story that combines love, hate, heroism, betrayal, courage, conspiracy, selfishness, 

sacrifice, weakness and strength

Her heroes….The main heroes of the opera Aida are six: Aida – Radames – Amneris – or Manasro – Ramses (Pharaoh of Egypt) – Ramphis (High Priest).

..and the story according to its sequence

  Aida is a captive Ethiopian slave girl. No one knows that she is the daughter of the King of Ethiopia. She was placed in the service of the Egyptian princess Amneris, the daughter of Pharaoh the two Aida and Amneris are secretly competing for the love of Officer Radamès News comes to Pharaoh’s palace carrying news of Ethiopia’s return to invade Egypt, and Officer Radames wishes that he had been chosen to lead the Egyptian army to confront the invaders and crush them so that he could ask Pharaoh to marry him to Aida.

Pharaoh chooses Radames as the leader of the fighting forces, and amidst solemn celebrations with great enthusiasm, he receives the leadership flag and goes to war carrying the wishes of his beloved Aida – and Amneris. Amneris doubts Aida’s relationship with Radames and is certain of her love for him when she tells her that he was killed in the war.

 Then she announces that she lied to her, but after she reveals the truth of her feelings, from afar comes the sound of the Egyptian army returning with banners of victory.  A parade of the coming great victory, accompanied by the spoils, and Radames on his large platform, and a succession of prisoners, among whom Aida glimpses her father, Omnasro, the prince of Ethiopia in disguise, and Pharaoh finds no gift to offer to Radames other than giving him the hand of his daughter, Amneres, at a time when Aida has all his emotions. . 

Amneris is preparing to marry Radamès, and Aida secretly sneaks out to meet him, but she is surprised when her father asks for her.

 To learn from Radames the path that the Egyptian army will take in its next move to meet the Ethiopians, and Aida struggles with the idea.

 She decides to escape with Radamès, who accepts and reveals to her the Egyptian army’s route of movement.

Radames is surprised by the appearance or support of the enemy leader, and then Amneris informs Ramses, and Radames becomes a traitor in their eyes.

 After revealing the army’s secrets to his enemies and at the urging of Amneris, who wants to avenge her love, Radames is sentenced to death.

end of story … 

The story ends with the basement in which he will die, and which Aida has succeeded in sneaking into and has come to die with him so that they can sing goodbye to the land of sadness and misery.

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