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29 unusual facts about Aida


1995 Pacific Grand Prix

The 1995 Pacific Grand Prix (formally the II Pacific Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 22 October 1995 at the TI Circuit, Aida, Japan.

Agora Theatre and Ballroom

The building currently known as the Agora first opened on March 31, 1913 with an English performance of Aida as the Metropolitan Theatre.

Antonello Palombi

On 10 December 2006 he was thrust into the media spotlight in Franco Zeffirelli's new production of Aida at La Scala, which opened the theatre's 2006/2007 season.

BravaNL

The productions consists of stage performances such as La bohème, Othello, Aida, Swan Lake, Tosca, Zoroastre and Così fan tutte.

Brian Hart

It was a promising partnership that brought some good results - notably, Rubens Barrichello's 3rd place at the 1994 Pacific Grand Prix at Aida, Japan.

Carlos Javier Benielli

He also wrote lyrics for marches commemorating the battles of Tuyutí and Curupaytí (both also with music by Silva) and the Hymn to San Martín (set to the music of the Triumphal March from the opera "Aida" by Verdi).

Christine Atallah

She was a classically trained Quebec-based singer with a pedigree which includes singing in the Academy Award-nominated film Jésus de Montréal, being discovered during a tour of Verdi's Aida, and touring the world as a featured soloist.

Cuarteto d'Aida

Diestro picked four brilliant young singers to form the group: Elena Burke, Moraima Secada and the sisters Omara and Haydée Portuondo.

Teté Caturla (Teresa García Caturla) joined them in 1963, and led them after Aida's death in 1973.

Elizabeth Amsden

Following engagements in Nice and Brussels, she became a member of the Boston Opera Company in 1911 where her roles included Minnie in La fanciulla del West and the title role in Aida.

Fife Opera

Highlights from the company's past productions include Aida in 2004 and the 1983 presentation of La traviata.

Florence Cole Talbert

In 1924, she traveled to Europe to play in Aïda, and returned to the United States three years later.

Giovanni Zenatello

That same year the arena was used to mount a grand production of Aida, marking the centenary of Verdi's birth.

Il merlo maschio

Eventually, he exposes his wife, naked (by an apparent accident with her dress) in front of everyone at Verona's Arena, during the showing of Aida.

Jesper Tydén

Aida - Radames - Schloss Festspiele Ettlingen/Germany ( July/August 2012)

John Hemmingham

Hemmingham started playing music at football matches in 1993 when he took a bugle to a Sheffield Wednesday match away at Everton's Goodison Park and played the fanfare to Aida.

Judith Lefeber

In 2004 Lefeber was engaged for the leading role in the musical Aida in Essen.

Kei Aran

When Kozuki had the lead in A Song for Kingdoms (a variation of the opera Aida) as her top star debut in 2003, Aran was cast as Aida, a role which brought much applause.

Morblus

Through the years the band has played with internationally renowned artists such as John Mayall, Robben Ford, Ronnie Earl, Shakura S'Aida, Diane Blue and Martha High.

Pacific Grand Prix

Both races were held at the Tanaka International Aida circuit (now Okayama International Circuit), a slow, twisty 2.3-mile track deep in the countryside in Aida (near Kobe), Japan.

PONCHO

The group was founded in 1963 to hold an auction to retire the US$35,000 debt accumulated by the Seattle Symphony's critically successful performance of Verdi's Aida at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, the Century 21 Exposition.

Roland Ratzenberger

But he got onto the grid for the next round at the TI Circuit in Aida, Japan, as his experience of the track from his touring car days meant he was the only driver in the race who had driven at the venue before.

Rose Hersee

Hersee was the daughter of Henry Hersee (1820–1896), a teacher, critic for The Observer, librettist of Cowen's Pauline (1876), and translator of operas including The Merry Wives of Windsor, Carmen and Aida.

Shakura S'Aida

In 2013, she was nominated for a Blues Music Award in the 'Contemporary Blues Female Artist' category.

Tancredi Pasero

After studying with the baritone Arturo Pessina in Turin, Pasero made his debut there, during 1917, as Ramphis in Verdi's Aida—although he always considered his official operatic debut to have taken place in Vicenza, on December 15, 1918, as Rodolfo in Vincenzo Bellini's La sonnambula.

Pasero's reputation for high-quality singing is borne out by his recorded legacy, which includes recordings of five complete works, available on CDs: Norma (recorded in 1937), La forza del destino (1941), Un ballo in maschera (1943) and Aida (1928 & 1946).

The Star of Ethiopia

Interspersed among these episodes were two selections from Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida.

Tony Poncet

He was also admired in a number of Italian operatic works, including Il trovatore, Aida, Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci.

Willemijn Verkaik

She is best known for her stage roles in Wicked, Aida and Elisabeth, and can be heard on the German cast recording of Wicked.


Aida Chalhoub

The famous Lebanese singer Elissa reproduced a song by Aida Chalhoub entitled "Law Fiyeh", and it became a great success.

Aida Mohamed

Aida trained for 23 years at the MTK sports club in Budapest, with fencing master Antal Solti.

Aida is married to former Canadian Olympic pentathlete and épée fencer, Laurie Shong.

Anna Tomowa-Sintow

In Berlin she continued to expand her repertoire with leading roles in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro and Così fan tutte, Verdi's Aida, Puccini's Tosca, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Wagner's Tannhäuser and Lohengrin, and Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos and Der Rosenkavalier.

Antoinette LaFarge

Over the years she has worked with performer-director Kim Weild, sound artist Cuca Esteves, writer Aida Croal, and many other theater artists, performers, and programmers.

Boiko Zvetanov

He began his career with major roles in Verdi operas such as the Duke in Rigoletto, Foresto in Attila and Radames in Aida, also Lindoro in Rossini's Italiana in Algeri, Fernando in Donizetti's La Favorita and Pollione in Bellini's Norma.

Budiman Mohd Zohdi

Zohdi lives in Sungai Besar with his wife Norma Aida Abdullah and daughter Aida Jasmin Kirana.

Carlos Coste

He broke the AIDA (International Association for the Development of Apnea) world record for Variable Weight Free-diving, with a 140 meter immersion in the Red Sea, Egypt, on May 9, 2006.

Claudia Lindsey

Finding it difficult to get work with opera companies in the United States, Lindsey went to Europe where she portrayed such roles as Countess Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro, the Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia, Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte, Mimi in La bohème, and the title heroine in Aida among other parts during the 1970s.

Garo Aida

Other popular models under 15 Aida has photographed include Saaya Irie (12), Asami Doi (13), Sari Kiri (13), Azusa Hibino (14), and Yuka Yamaguchi (14).

Giorgio Tozzi

Tozzi was the recipient of three Grammy Awards: in 1960 the Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance, Operatic or Choral for The Marriage of Figaro with Erich Leinsdorf; in 1961 the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording for Puccini's Turandot, with Erich Leinsdorf; and in 1963 the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording for Georg Solti's recording of Verdi's Aida (with Leontyne Price and Jon Vickers).

Hariclea Darclée

Among the many roles she portrayed are Gilda in Rigoletto, Ophélie in Hamlet, Valentine in Les Huguenots, Violetta in La traviata, Desdemona in Otello, Mimì in La boheme, Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana, and the title roles in Manon, Manon Lescaut, Aida, and Carmen.

Hisham Abdel Khalek

His operatic repertoire includes 20 operas ranging from Aida, Tosca, Carmen, Rigoletto, La Traviata, La Boheme to Turandot.

Jolana Fogašová

Some of the roles she has created on stage are Dorabella (Mozart: Così fan tutte), Donna Elvira (Mozart: Don Giovanni), Amneris (Verdi: Aida), and the title role in Georges Bizet's Carmen among others.

Kolleen Park

She was the conductor for the musical "Aida", the Korean version of Disney's first original Broadway musical rather than the opera, which was the most popular show in Korea at the end of 2010 and topped the booking rankings for December that were compiled by Inter Park.

Kristie Reeves

Other choreographies: "Lucia di Lammermoor" for Repertory Opera Company, "The Bartered Bride" for Celestial Opera Company, "Aida" for Casa Italiana, "The Rope" for ICAP Theater Company, "Don't try" for Rangeview Productions and "Love of a Nightingale" for Boston Court Theater.

Kristján Jóhannsson

Verdi: Aida (Maria Dragoni, Kristjan Johannsson, Francesco Ellero d'Artegna, Barbara Dever, Mark Rucker, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra; Rico Saccani, conductor).

Leon Major

Among the productions he has directed are: Macbeth, Falstaff, Intermezzo, Volpone, Don Pasquale, Don Carlos, Resurrection, Aida, Don Giovanni, Roméo et Juliette, La traviata, L'elisir d'amore, Carmen (on Boston Common) Eugene Onegin, The Aspern Papers, Cosi fan tutte, Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Peter Grimes.

Lina Bruna Rasa

In the years between 1926 and 1933 Bruna Rasa sang throughout Italy as well as in Montecarlo, Nice, Lausanne and Barcelona where she sang Aida at the city's Gran Teatre del Liceu.

Liudmyla Monastyrska

In 2011, she appeared at Covent Garden, where she successfully stepped in for Micaela Carosi as Aida early in the season, with Fabio Luisi as the conductor.

Marta Hazas

She is a Spanish actress who has acted sporadically in shows like Aída, Los hombres de Paco, Cuéntame cómo pasó, "Paco y Veva", Hospital Central, "El comisario" and Los Serrano.

Music of Veneto

The city of Verona is world famous for the Roman amphitheater known as the "Arena", a site that has been hosting musical events since the 16th century, but which is more recently known for the spectacular outdoor staging of Verdi's Aida, an event staged for the first time in 1913.

Nobody, Nobody But... Juan

Aside from wanting to connect with the Philippines that he dearly misses, Juan is lonesome for his first love Aida (Gloria Romero), with whom he lost touch during the Japanese occupation of Manila.

Pol Plançon

English commentators were enthusiastic about his contribution to these premieres, as well as his singing in the standard repertory roles, including Rocco in Ludwig van Beethoven's Fidelio, Méphistophélès in Faust, Ramfis in Verdi's Aida, Pogner in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg or Jupiter in Gounod's Philémon et Baucis.

Ramón Iriarte

As Claudio in Montero's Virginia, and roles in L'amico Fritz, Carmen, Aida, Pagliacci, Madame Butterfly, and Bastien und Bastienne had become part of Iriarte’s wide music repertoire full of success.

Raúl Arévalo

Between 2003 and 2005 he made appearances in the TV series Hospital Central, Cuéntame cómo pasó, Aída and Motivos personales.

Sydney Rayner

He appeared with that company through 1938, in Aïda (with Elisabeth Rethberg), Cavalleria rusticana (with Rosa Ponselle), Carmen again (opposite Ponselle), Les contes d'Hoffmann (conducted by Maurice Abravanel and directed by Herbert Graf), Manon (with Bidu Sayão in her Met debut, later with Grace Moore), Faust, and Pagliacci (opposite Robert Weede in his Met debut).

Ted LeFevre

LeFevre was the associate to Bob Crowley for the 2000 production of Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida, which won a Tony Award for "Best Scenic Design".

The Lady of the Black Moons

Aida (Nahed Yousri) is married to rich and older Sami (Adel Adham) but she still suffers because of her love to Omar (Hussein Fahmy).

Torhild Staahlen

She has sung more than sixty roles, including the title role in Carmen in three productions, Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, Azucena in Il trovatore, Amneris in Aida and Ulrica in Un ballo in maschera.

Wilhelmenia Fernandez

Since then she has sung in operas and recitals in cities all over the world, her most notable roles being Carmen, Carmen Jones (for which she received the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1992 as Best Actress in a Musical), and Aïda, a role she has performed in Luxor and at the Pyramids in Egypt.