One word that describes Aida: AMAZING!
I don’t know which was more inspiring, the production of Aida itself or the Metropolitan Opera theatre. You hear about the Mets all the time and you wonder what’s so special about it? I don’t know if words are enough to describe the theater or the production of Aida, but I will certainly try.
As you walk up and down the fifth avenue, window-shopping, you can’t help but wonder for which occasions are these glamorous thousand dollar dresses for. And you are an average person, you will not get your answer unless you walk in one of those expiring opera productions, such as Aida. Red carpets everywhere, women in these unbelievable dresses, who look like they spent hours in the beauty shop before coming to the production. Men in their taxidos holding champagne glasses. Everything is just so elite, that it left me breathless for a while. However, the most inspiring part about the Mets is the theater itself. Flawless, humongous stage with thousands of seats.
After the Mets theater itself, my expectations of the production of Aida were very high and the performance did not fall below my expectations. People in the audience were dressed in those fancy dresses, but they were nothing in comparison to what the performers wore on stage. Egyptian dresses, costumes, everything was just as you would imagine if you think of the Great Empire of Egypt in the BC. What is even more inspiring is to what degree of accuracy they were able to imitate the scenario of Egypt in an enclosed area. Ranging from slaves, to horses, to thrones, the production of Aida was able to recreate Egypt in front of our eyes, right here at the Mets in NYC.