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Enrique Mazzola on Verdi’s Aida

March 2, 2024, 4:00 pm

Whimsical image of Enrique Mazzola in a grey sportscoat, white shirt, no tie, red-framed eyeglasses, at the piano, crouching so that keyboard is at eye level, his reflection visible on the shiny black surface of the piano, red curtain as background.

Enrique Mazzola (Photo by Kyle Flubacker)

Lyric Opera’s music director Enrique Mazzola joins WFMT to preview Verdi’s grandest opera. Maestro Mazzola selects some of his favorite moments from the score and gives his perspective from the orchestra pit on conducting the Triumphal Scene, one of the most epic ensembles in all of opera. Aida opens March 9. Learn more HERE.

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Giuseppe Verdi: Aida
Act I, Preludio
Act I, “Se quel guerrier io fossi!…Celeste Aida”
Act II, “Chi mai fra gli inni e i plausi…Vieni: sul crin ti piovano”
Act II, “Gloria all’Egitto, ad Iside”
Act III, “Qui Radamès verra .. O patria mia”
Act IV, “O terra, addio”

Anja Harteros (Aida)
Jonas Kaufmann (Radamès)
Ekaterina Semenchuk (Amneris)
Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano, conductor

Meet the Host

Oliver Camacho joined the announcer team in February of 2019. He is the co-host and creative consultant of Opera Box Score and co-host of OperaNow! Podcast. A proud graduate of Chicago’s Lane Technical High School, where he was mentored by George Rico, Oliver went on to study music at Northwestern University, and historically informed performance practice at the Amherst Early Music Festival and Early Music Vancouver. His musical passions are opera, art song, choral music, Early Music, and discovering new composers as well as those who have been previously marginalized or disenfranchised. In January of 2021, Oliver began hosting Listening to Singers, and in October of the same year, he was named WFMT’s Music Director.

With Heart and Voice

With Heart and Voice

Enrique Mazzola on Verdi’s Aida

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