Opera 101: Aïda January 8, 2010

Opera 101: Aïda
Fred Plotkin is the author of Opera 101, Classical Music 101, and seven books about Italy.

Works of art that are as familiar and have achieved as much universal recognition as the three most popular operas—Aïda, La Bohème, and Carmen—often lose their power to surprise and enlighten. And yet masterpieces they are. Giuseppe Verdi’s Aïda may seem to be little more than a grand spectacle, but in fact it makes brilliant use of opera to explore politics, especially the conflict between private passion and public responsibility.

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