Aida - Celeste Aida

In 1870 Ismail Pasha, the viceroy of Egypt, commissioned Giuseppe Verdi to write an opera to commemorate his new opera-house in Cairo. The opera he wrote, Aida, gave the world one of its most famous arias, Celeste Aida.

evtv1 | April 12, 2006

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