Aida at Nationaltheater Mannheim

Giuseppe Verdi can even compose a last breath of life a duet that keeps his audience through generations in breathing. The story of the beautiful slave who longs in times of war against its own people for the love of the war leader who understands director Roger Vontobel as timeless parable about the friction between individual needs and social needs. Friends and foes bear here changing masks, between ritual, community, excess and violence, there is no power that could clear the mess. Not only in exotic faraway Egypt, but all over the world Aidas tragedy occurred, and it may be no coincidence that the work was banned during the Nazi wars of aggression against Abyssinia by Mussolini.

Together with set designer and costume designer Palle Christensen Nina von Mechow creates Vontobel a world that is strange to us familiar and yet completely remote. A world in which the sound of a suffocating voice can be as beautiful as the feeling of being in love for the first time. - With the premiere of Aida Alexander Soddy celebrates its debut as the new music director of the NTM.