I will be seeing "Aida" for the first time next month. Is it basically!


Question: I read the synopsis for it as well as some other stuff on the web about it and it seems as if it has the same themes as "Romeo and Juliet," however, would it be fair to call it opera's version of Romeo and Juliet?


Answers: I read the synopsis for it as well as some other stuff on the web about it and it seems as if it has the same themes as "Romeo and Juliet," however, would it be fair to call it opera's version of Romeo and Juliet?

No. It in no legitimate way could be referred to as an operatic version of Romeo and Juliet.

Romeo kills himself, in the mistaken belief that Juliet is dead. She then awakens to find him dead, and then kills herself because of it.

Radames, the hero in Aida, has been condemned to an oxygen deprivation death in an airless tomb; Aida upon learning this, decides to join him rather than living without him: they supposedly die together, not like Romeo and Juliet where one follows the other.

Nor like Tristan and Isolde, where he dies from a battle wound, and she simply expires from her sorrow over his death and wish to join him in the after-life.

So to draw a similarity between any of the three, is totally illegitimate.

Alberich

kinda

Aida is a story
There is an Opera, as well as a broadway musical
There is also an opera of Romeo and Juliet

dont know sorry

I suppose it is kind of similar, but it isn't opera's version of Romeo and Juliet, its opera's version of Aida. There are several Romeo and Juliet operas, so those are opera's version of Romeo and Juliet. The story of Romeo and Juliet comes from Shakespere so that is before Aida was written, and Verdi decided to use the Aida libretto instead of a Romeo and Juliet libretto. I love aida, it is one of my favorite operas! Enjoy!

I think I see what you mean.
The main difference is that the lovers are from enemy nations instead of enemy families.
Perhaps we call it a retelling of Tristan and Isolde rather than Romeo and Juliet.



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