What's your relationship to Aida ? Aida is the story of an Ethiopian princess in exile in Egypt.And the director of the music festival invited me because Aida , just historically, has been highly problematic opera for a lot of Middle
I always say, I had this little consortium of the girls. There's Nala and Aida and Shug and Rachel and now there's Helen. And they all have this one thing in common, which I guess is me, and I feel like they're all kind of different aspects
What do you mean by that? What's your relationship to Aida ? Aida is the story of an Ethiopian princess in exile in Egypt.
And the old witch, you know, loses her temper, realizes that someone has been getting in, and that Rapunzel is having a baby. told them the plot of Aida .
Aida is the story of an Ethiopian princess in exile in Egypt.And the director of the music festival invited me because Aida , just historically, has been highly problematic opera for a lot of Middle Easterners because it's the most cliche and orientalist opera.
And so he found it very interesting that if I could take this-- which was a huge task-- this narrative and sort of maybe a new reinterpretation of it, that somehow kept the grandiose of the classical Aida and didn't compromise the value of it, but yet was able to address the kind of cliche and sort of didn't have the elephants and the horses and the people painted black walking--
So that's how I operate. We're going to do the first two acts of Aida with the BSO and Kristine.
And honestly, it always has. I've known Deborah. We did "Aida " together, so I've known Deborah a long time.
Donc là, on n’est pas en train de parler au producteur, on est en train de parler au bas de la chaine, on va dire. D'autres au contraire pensent qu'il faut faire changer le monde économique en les aidants à évoluer.
I want to uh, I just want to make a very quick point of saying that the reason that these events have been so successful is done mainly to two guys, Mark and Aidan. I don't think anyone really realizes just how good they are at their jobs.
you can have a great idea, but you still gotta get people to know about it. And I think what it's doing and essentially it's one of the marketing golden rules was AIDA , Awareness drives Interest drives Desire drives Action. But actually, the whole thing
Nicely done. Let's begin. So I'm sure many of you recognize Littlefinger from "Game of Thrones" there, Aidan Gillen, out there somewhere a million years from now, looking back at our amazing mission. But of course we had to turn the science fiction-- which we made last year-- we had to turn it 30 years ago into science fact.
is inhabiting the character. The cast has so much theater and Broadway talent involved with it, like Heather Headley, you are a Tony award winner for "Aida ,"
like for a visual artist to tell the story, what kind of form would it take without mimicking conventional cinema, but also not making things that are completely incomprehensible. I asked the director of the opera last year at Salzburg Festival, Aida , with Anna Netrebko and Riccardo Muti, the conductor, what is the nature of ambitiousness and experimentation?
You mentioned the opera. Something that you said that I really thought was interesting was you said, "Sometimes the boundaries between Aida and myself are blurred." What do you mean by that?
of coffee and two of them are identical and one is different. So the trick is to guess which one is different. So you have eight sets of interesting to see. When I went to Central America, you know the coffee grower that I was visiting -- Aida Batlle-- she's a fifth generation
So your questions can be anything, any topic, and feel free to push back on anything that you hear me talk about today. Couple of quick pictures from the family scrapbook-- so you'll see in the family photo I've got my two sons-- Keiran and Aidan. I'm actually seven months pregnant with my little girl Maeve there.