Aida | Opera review

Royal Opera House, LondonYou can take Aida out of Egypt, but can you take Egypt out of Aida? David McVicar clearly thinks so. His new production for the Royal Opera contains no traces of the ancient Egyptiana that provides the decor for traditional naturalistic stagings. The references to Memphis and Thebes, Isis and Phthah remain in the libretto, but there's not a hieroglyph or a pyramid, let alone an elephant, to be seen.Yet the drama still needs a context: it must take place in a society pred...

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