Win tickets to classic opera Aida

THE AWARD-WINNING

producer Ellen Kent returns to Wycombe Swan with Aida this spring, performed by the Ukrainian Opera & Ballet Theatre Kyiv, on February 22.

The show is part of a tour of Ellen Kent opera productions which also includes Madama Butterfly and La Boheme and features celebrated international soloists sopranos Elena Dee, Olga Perrier, Alyona Kistenyova, the international soprano Natalia Matveeva, the Romanian international tenor Sorin Lupu and Vitalii Liskovetskiy from the Ukrainian National Opera.

This tragic story of war, jealousy and revenge at whose heart is the doomed love of the beautiful Ethiopian slave girl, Aida, and the Egyptian hero, Radames, is brought to life in a production set against one of the greatest pieces of music Verdi ever wrote with the well-known arias Celeste Aida, Ritorna Vincitor and the classic Triumphal March

Ellen Kent said: “I have produced and directed many Aidas over the years and it still remains the biggest challenge a producer can face. My vision of Aida matches Verdi’s vision and I try to give Aida the grandeur which Verdi achieved in the first production in Egypt when he was commissioned to write an opera for the opening of the Suez Canal and premiered in Cairo in 1871.”

We have a pair of tickets to see Aida at the Wycombe Swan on February 22. For your chance to win them, tell us:

Who wrote the opera Aida?

Email your answer, marked Aida competition, to: tracey. allen@rafnews.co.uk or post it to: RAF News, Room 68, Lancaster Building, HQ Air Command, High Wycombe, HP14 4UE, to arrive by February 17. l Go to: ellenkent.com for full tour details.

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