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Topic: Opera and Liberty

CHARACTERS - Giuseppe Verdi, Aida by Antonio Ghislanzoni, music by Giuseppe Verdi [1871]

Edition used:

Aida by Antonio Ghislanzoni, music by Giuseppe Verdi, edited with an introduction by W.J. Henderson (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1911).

About Liberty Fund:

Liberty Fund, Inc. is a private, educational foundation established to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals.


CHARACTERS

Aida,an Ethiopian Slave.

Amneris,Daughter of the King of Egypt.

Rhadames,Captain of the Egyptian Guards.

Amonasro,King of Ethiopia (Aïda’s Father).

Ramphis,High Priest of Isis.

King of Egypt.

A Messenger.

Priests, Priestesses, Ministers, Captains, Soldiers, Functionaries, Slaves, and Ethiopian Prisoners, Egyptian People, &c., &c.

The action takes place at Memphis and at Thebes during the reign of the Pharaohs.