Aida
Opera by Giuseppe Verdi
Story by Auguste Mariette
Libretto by Giuseppe Verdi & Camille du Locle
Lyrics by Antonio Ghislanzoni
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This was a new production for Welsh National Opera. It opened at the Millennium Centre Opera House in Cardiff on 27th May 2008 and then toured to Birmingham.
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Creative Team
| Conductor | Carlo Rizzi |
| Director | John Caird |
| Set Designer | Yannis Thavoris |
| Costume Designer | Emma Ryott |
| Lighting | Paul Pyant |
| Choreography | Denni Sayers |
| Language Coach | Marko Canepa |
| Deputy Conductor | Michel Klauza |
| Head of Music | Russell Moreton |
| Chorus Master | Stephen Harris |
| Répétiteurs | Simon Phillips & Anthony Negus |
| Community Choir Master | Tim Rhys-Evans |
| Assistant Community Choir Master | Owen Webb |
| Community Choir Répétiteur | Sharon Richards |
| Vocal Animateur | Miriam Bowen |
| Project Manager | Sarah Teagle |
| Technical Director | Jan Michaelis |
| Associate Technical Director | Bobn Pagett |
| Assistant Technical Director | Richard Norton |
| Stage Manager | Julia Carson-Sims |
| Deputy Stage Manager | Liz Walker |
| Assistant Stage Managers | Katy Heath-Jones & Charlotte Hayne |
Cast
| Aida | Zvetelina Vassileva |
| Amneris | Margaret Jane Wray |
| Amonasro | Phillip Joll |
| Radames | Dennis O’Neill |
| Ramphis | Andrew Gangestad |
| King of Egypt | David Soar |
| Messenger | Philip Lloyd Holtam |
| Gran Sacerdossa | Meriel Andrew |
| Female Dancers | |
| Jessye Parke, Jolice Truter, Pepa Ubera & Ruth Varley | |
| Male Dancers | |
| Leroy Dios Don Santos, Ramon Díaz, David Klooster & Antonio Tengroth | |
| #### WNO female Chorus | |
| Meriel Andrew | |
| Amanda Baldwin | |
| Neda Bizzarri | |
| Anita Blaxhall | |
| Paula Bradbury | |
| Megan Llewellyn-Dorke | |
| Daniella Ehrlich | |
| Jessica Handley-Greaves | |
| Helen Greenaway | |
| Claire Hampton | |
| Fiona Harrison | |
| Rosie Hay | |
| Samantha Hay | |
| Dorothy Hood | |
| Emma Llewellyn | |
| Sian Meinir | |
| Anne Morgan | |
| Nicola Morgan | |
| Laura Pooley | |
| Sarah Pope | |
| #### WNO Male Chorus | |
| Robert Winslade Anderson | |
| Julian Boyce | |
| Michael Clifton-Thomas | |
| Laurence Cole | |
| Simon Curtis | |
| John Gilbert | |
| Paul Gyton | |
| Jasey Hall | |
| Philip Lloyd Holtam | |
| Alun Rhys Jenkins | |
| Howard Kirk | |
| Gareth Lloyd | |
| Martin Lloyd | |
| Philip Lloyd-Evans | |
| Alastair Moore | |
| Jack O’Kelly | |
| Philip Pooley | |
| James Robinson-May | |
| Gary Watkins | |
| Ian Yemm | |
| #### Extra Female Chorus | |
| Elizabeth Franklin-Kitchen | |
| Carolyn Jackson | |
| Monika Sawa | |
| Kate Woolveridge | |
| #### Extra Male Chorus | |
| Ross Buddie | |
| Mark Cartwright | |
| William Coleman | |
| Ieuan Davies | |
| Ralph Hamer | |
| Stephen Hamnett | |
| Gareth Long | |
| Simon McEnery | |
| Geraint Miles | |
| Richard Monk | |
| Peter Wilman | |
| Dyfed Wyn-Evans | |