The monumental opera AIDA, in the musical version of the Baraccano Orchestra, does not require spectacular forcing on stage, nor colossal spaces or scenographic grandeur. Here even the elephants could stop marching, leaving space, amazed and moved, to the human drama between losers and winners, in war and in love.

We find the suffocating gigantism desired by Giuseppe Verdi and the overwhelming effect on the soul of the young protagonists, in the original reduction and arrangement for instrumental ensemble with ten real parts, in the impetuous style of the director Giambattista Giocoli, in the verses spoken and whispered by Sandra Cavallini, in the desired metric irregularity of Antonio Ghislanzoni's libretto.

Lyrical accents, triumphal traits and sudden suspensions reveal the delicate depths of the work. A reduction and arrangement that will try, even without the singers, to restore the dramaturgy and symphonic power of this Opera and to convey its profound intimacy of feelings and musicality, in addition to the majestic and grandiose moments inspired by the magnificence of Egyptian civilization.

Contrary to the predominant tradition, which made it famous mainly for the magnificence of the scenography, we therefore want to present an innovative reading, focused on the profound intimacy of feelings and reflections on social dynamics.