Lyric Opera of Kansas City: Aida

Lyric Opera of Kansas City: Aida at Muriel Kauffman Theatre - Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

Two women want the same man, and only one wears a crown. In Verdi's Aida, Egyptian princess Amneris holds power, privilege and every advantage—except the heart of Radames, the general she adores. He loves Aida, a captive Ethiopian princess forced to serve her rival while hiding her royal blood and watching the man she loves fight her own father's armies. Duty and desire collide with operatic force when Amneris discovers the truth.

Aida's impossible choice between Radames and her homeland drives the opera forward. She must decide whether to betray her father, the Ethiopian king fighting to free his people, or give up the one relationship that makes captivity bearable. Verdi and librettist Antonio Ghislanzoni built the work around this tension, and the arias and choruses reflect the personal and political stakes at every turn.

Lyric Opera of Kansas City brings a new production to the Muriel Kauffman Theatre, sung in Italian with English projected translations. Gerard Schwarz conducts, and Keturah Stickann directs this presentation of one of opera's most powerful stories of impossible love. The production promises dramatic sets and costumes to match the scale of ancient Egypt and Ethiopia locked in war.

Get Aida tickets for love caught between two nations at war.