Aida starring Cheryl Studer - Royal Opera DVD

A spectacular Covent Garden production of Verdi's most popular opera featuring Cheryl Studer and Dennis O'Neill. Also starring Luciana d'Intino, Alexandru Agache, Robert Lloyd, Mark Beesley, John Marsden, and Yvonne Barclay. Edward Downes conducts the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House.

"No, this is not the Broadway hit, but the original Verdi masterpiece, staged and performed to a fare-thee-well by an extraordinary cast in this 1994 Royal Opera production. Cheryl Studer shows why she was one of America's leading sopranos in the late 1980s and early '90s before bowing out because of overwork and strain. Her Aida is touching, proud, defiant--in short, the quintessential Verdi heroine. The Royal Opera Chorus performs Verdi's glorious choral moments brilliantly, and the Royal Opera House Orchestra, under Edward Downes, gives a solid, vigorous account of one of Verdi's most shimmering scores. Elijah Moshinsky's staging abounds in many clever touches, and the sets and costumes are evocative without being too elaborately overwhelming." --Kevin Filipski

Kultur Films, 1994. DVD. 168 minutes. Color.