VERDI: Aida - Cheryl Studer, The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House; Edward Downes (DVD)

Verdi: Aida
Cheryl Studer (Aida); Luciana d'Intino (Amneris); Dennis O'Neill (Radamès);

The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House; Edward Downes

Stage Director(s): Elijah Moshinsky

Cheryl Studer, in the title role, leads an excellent cast in Elijah Moshinsky's 1994 production of Verdi's extravagant and magnificent Egyptian opera. Aida was acclaimed at its first performance in 1871 and has grown in stature ever since to become one of the best-loved and most performed grand operas of all time.

"Sir Edward Downes' command of the score's structure, its curious blend of delicacy and bombast, of classical propriety and romantic excess, is complete..." (The Times)