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Giuseppe Verdi Opera: Aida, opera in four acts, first performance 24 December 1871, Khedivial Opera House, Cairo. Libretto: Antonio Ghislanzoni Ouverture (1/2) Orchestra: BBC Philarmonic Conductor: Sir Edward Downes The original ouverture to Aida but never performed since Verdi didn’t like it when he heard it and he took it back. … Opera Classical Giuseppi Verdi Aida Ouverture Sir Edward Downes BBC Philarmonic

Giuseppe Verdi Opera: Nabucco / Nabucodonosor, opera in four acts, first performance 9 March 1842, Teatro alla Scala, Milan. Libretto: Temistocle Solera Ouverture Orchestra: BBC Philarmonic Conductor: Sir Edward Downes The german composer Otto Nicolai, who had first been offered the libretto but refused to accept it, had no beautiful things to say about Verdis opera, “Verdi’s operas are really horrible,” he wrote. “He scores like a fool — technically he is not even professional — and he …