presents
GiUSEPPE VERDI's
Libretto by ANTONIO GHISLANZONI
CAST
(in order of vocal appearance)
Ramfis MORRIS ROBINSON
RAmFiS (June 4) Daniel Sumegi
Radames RUSSELL THOMAS
Amneris MELODY MOORE
AIDA LATONIA MOORE*
King PEIXIN CHEN*
Messenger ANTHONY CIARAMITARO †
High Priestess ALAYSHA FOX* †
AmonasrO George Gagnidze
CREATIVE TEAM
CONDUCTOR JAMES CONLON
DIRECTOR Francesca Zambello
Associate Director Katrina Bachus
Artistic Design RETNA*
Scenery Designer Michael Yeargan
Costume Designer Anita Yavich*
Lighting DESIGNER Mark McCullough
Associate Lighting Designer Peter W. Mitchell*
ChORUS DIRECTOR GRANT Gershon
ChoreographER Jessica Lang*
Fight DirectOR Andrew Kenneth Moss
ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR LOUIS LOHRASEB ‡
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Sara E. Widzer
Assistant Choreographer Claudia McDonald
STAGE MANAGER WHITNEY MCanally
MUSICAL PREPARATION
Jeremy Frank
NICHOLAS ROEHLER †
Peter Walsh ‡
Prompter
Tamara Sanikidze
* LA Opera debut
† Member of the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program
‡ Alumnus of the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program
Production made possible with generous support from
THE EMANUEL TREITEL SENIOR CITIZEN FUND
ALFRED AND CLAUDE MANN FUND
MARILYN ZIERING
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
Additional support from the
NORMAN AND SADIE LEE FOUNDATION
THE ARMENIAN CONSORTIUM
Special gifts for Aida from
LA OPERA PATRONS
LA Opera Orchestra generously underwritten by
TERRI AND JERRY KOHL
PRODUCTION NOTES
The running time is approximately three hours, including one intermission.
This production features smoke/fog effects.
Supertitles written by Jonathan Dean.
Aida is a co-production of Washington National Opera, San Francisco Opera, Seattle Opera and Minnesota Opera. Scenery was constructed at Bay Productions and is jointly owned by Washington National Opera, San Francisco Opera, Seattle Opera and Minnesota Opera. Costumes were constructed at the San Francisco Opera Costume Studio and are jointly owned by Washington National Opera, San Francisco Opera, Seattle Opera and Minnesota Opera. Additional costumes created by the Los Angeles Opera Costume Shop. Wigs constructed by the Los Angeles Opera Wig & Make-Up Department.
LA Opera partners with G8 Check to develop and implement COVID protocols in full compliance with LA County and other local guidelines.
Please wear your mask at all times inside the theater.
Please refrain from talking during the performance, and turn off all cell phones, electronic devices and watch alarms. If you are using an assistive hearing device, or are attending with someone who is, please make sure that it is set to an appropriate level to avoid distracting audio feedback. Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of the house management. The use of cameras and recording equipment is strictly prohibited. Your use of a ticket acknowledges your willingness to appear in photographs taken in public areas of the Music Center and releases the Center and its lessees and others from liability resulting from use of such photographs. Any microphones onstage are used for recording or broadcast purposes only; onstage voices are not amplified.
