A modern treatment of Verdi's epic opera

Washington Opera present a brand-new, exciting restaging of Verdi's epic, Aida. Verdi's powerful music with parkour and modern dance in the background, the story of the two warring societies is giving a more relevancy that closely mirrors the Arab Spring. With brand-new visuals by RETNA and a more modernistic setting, everything you could want from an opera is here.

A beautiful Ethiopian princess currently lives in the city of Thebes as a slave to the Pharoah's daughter. She is secretly in love with the military hero Radames, however he is pursued by Amneris, the Egyptian King's daughter, herself a princess. Nobody knows Aida's true identity, which has kept her safe up to now, and her father in Ethiopia is making battle plans to take her back, disguises as a common soldier within his troops. Amneris, suspecting that Aida is her love rival, draws in the naive girl with false friendliness in order to draw her secret out, after all, how could a man choose a foreigner over her, a princess? After Radames leads the Egyptians in defending their land, he succeeds in capturing the Ethiopian king as well as thousands of others.