{"product_id":"aida-in-full-score-dover-opera-scores-9780486261720","title":"Aida in Full Score (Dover Opera Scores)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAda is one of Verdis greatest gifts to grand opera. It magnificently combines high drama  stage spectacle  and a musical score that is one of the glories of operatic writing. A great success from its first performance over a century ago  it continues to dominate the repertory of opera houses around the world  among them the Metropolitan Opera in New York  which has staged Ada more than any other opera in its long history. In 1869  Verdi  at the peak of his career  initially declined offers from Egypt to create an opera for the new Cairo opera house  built to mark the opening of the Suez Canal. Then  in 1870  opera officials sent Verdi a short synopsis of a tragic love story that unfolds amid the pomp and pageantry of ancient Egypt. Verdi pronounced it \"well-made\" and \"splendid from a scenic point of view.\" And when a handsome commission arrived from the Khedive as well  he set to work with his librettists on what would become his most famous opera. After many revisions  Ada premiered in Cairo on Christmas Eve in 1871 and was an instantaneous success. Subsequent performances in Milan  Parma  Naples  and Paris confirmed its enormous popular appeal  which has never flagged. Verdi endowed Ada with arias  vocal ensembles  and orchestral scoring of thrilling power. Some of its passages  among them the celebrated third-act \"Nile scene \" are ranked by critics as among the finest in opera. This authoritative full-score edition will afford music lovers the opportunity to study intimately this grand opera that so richly displays Verdis genius at its most inspired.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279950897205,"sku":"ByrdShop_0486261727","price":35.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780486261720.jpg?v=1780616551","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/aida-in-full-score-dover-opera-scores-9780486261720","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}