![]() ![]() Or refuse cookies (except strictly necessary cookies).īy clicking the button “Accept All” you give your consent that we are allowed to use all cookies and ![]() To ensure that you have the best possible user experience on our websites please agree to the use ofĬookies as described in our cookie notice by clicking “Accept All”. Their purpose and where they are used can be found below and in our cookie notice. ![]() We and designated third parties use cookies on this website. In exactly 2 hours and one intermission, we tell a timeless story of eternal love, loyalty, jealousy and forgiveness that is still relevant and more important than ever in 2024. Our conductor and musical director, Michael Ellis Ingram, starts the opera with the soft notes of the Prelude. Crickets announce a new day and every now and then you hear the cry of a falcon in the distance. ![]() A warm breeze gently blows through the arena, carrying with it the scent of warmth, pine trees, flowers and plants of the royal garden. Look forward to a journey to ancient Egypt - at the time of the pharaohs. The German translations on the LED wall are also not missing and enable the audience to follow the story literally. The plot is told crystal-clearly by means of large images and, when necessary, supported by animations on the circular LED wall above the stage. The opera must be comprehensible and appealing to everyone: with or without opera experience! Preparation is therefore not necessary here. Especially in the second act, when Radames returns triumphantly from the war, many an opera house reaches its limits - a condition that does not apply to the arena - on the contrary! The arena, on the other hand, also offers possibilities that an opera house can only dream of. What works in the opera house does not necessarily apply to the arena and its very special characteristics. We embraced this reality and made it the DNA of our production. Sketches became 3D models and these models became illustrations and more and more international creatives joined the project to jointly stage THE opera spectacle of the year.ĪIDA was developed for the arena, not the opera house. Sound technology has undergone a huge revolution in the last 20 years, especially in the spatial sense."Ī short concept turned into a multi-page description of the staging. We can make the sound of the orchestra sound spatial and, using state-of-the-art sound technology, make it sound like opera should sound: robust but differentiated and, at the right moments, pompous or even fragile. "The technical conditions have changed: what seemed impossible or unaffordable 20 years ago has now become standard: We can light up hieroglyphs on the temple facade one by one and have soloists perform anywhere in the arena, in the middle of the audience. Our AIDA is a spectacle of superlatives: 250 performers, hundreds of spotlights, video projection, animations, a huge stage set but also intimate scenes of individual soloists, to be seen up close on the huge circular LED screen directly above the stage. Time to transform the "Arena di Amburgo" into an oasis of pharaonic proportions. In 2024, it has been almost 20 years since a grand opera was performed in the Barclays Arena. Love, rivalry, fear, despair and hope: only in the arena can this love story be told so spectacularly: Two people in the middle of the gigantic, monumental backdrop, who draw the complete focus on themselves with their love and make us forget everything around us.ĪIDA - the Arena Opera Spectacle 2024 - Barclays Arena Hamburg - 02.02.24 - secure tickets now! The rattling of swords, the marching of our soldiers, the flowing of the Nile water - Our AIDA is an audiovisual spectacle around a love story of two people: AIDA & Radames - prisoners of Ethiopia and the commander of Egypt. The entire arena is our stage: soldiers, priests and numerous Egyptian women in the entourage of Princess Amneris enter the arena from all directions: For example, the aria of Radames is sung in the auditorium - up close between the spectators and to be followed simultaneously via our large video wall. Walking into the arena is like a journey back to the distant past: you smell lotus blossoms, pine trees, spices and the waters of the Nile, feel a warm breeze, hear the soft chirping of crickets as the sun slowly rises and our story begins. present you the biggest arena opera spectacle of the decade! Immerse yourself in ancient Egypt at the time of the pharaohs.Įven before the Hanseatic Symphony Orchestra (in a large cast) under the direction of MD Michael Ellis Ingram, plays the first notes of the opera, you are at the foot of the temple, at the gates of the royal palace. ![]()
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