Verdi: Aida - DVD

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Verdi: Aida (OAR3104D) (1994)<br /> <br /> Cheryl Studer (Aida); Luciana d’Intino (Amneris); Dennis O’Neill (Radamès); The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House; Edward Downes<br /> <br /> Cheryl Studer, in the title role, leads an excellent cast in<br /> Elijah Moshinsky's 1994 production of Verdi's extravagant<br /> and magnificent Egyptian opera. Aida was acclaimed at its first performance in 1871 and has grown in stature ever since to become one of the best-loved and most performed grand operas of all time.<br /> <br /> "Sir Edward Downes’ command of the score's structure, its curious blend of delicacy and bombast, of classical propriety and romantic excess, is complete..." (The Times)