Aida

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).