Aida

Aida is an opera in four acts and seven tableaux with a score by Giuseppe Verdi. Its libretto was derived from a short sketch by Egyptologist Mariette Bey that Camille Du Locle and Charles Nuitter put into verse. This French poem was translated subsequently into Italian by Antonio Ghislanzoni , to whom Verdi and Giuseppina Strepponi made numerous suggestions. The work was commissioned by Ismail Pacha , viceroy of Egypt, who wished to produce it for the inauguration of the new opera house in…