Aida

From the ancient Teatro Greco in Taormina, the ‘pearl of the Ionian Sea’, comes this visually and vocally impressive open-air production of Giuseppe Verdi’s ‘Aida’. Evoking a’Spielberg film’ (Quotidiano.net), stage and video director Enrico Castiglione projects video images upon the columns and ruins of the 3rd-century B.C. amphitheater, creating a breathtaking virtual backdrop of Egyptian pillars and palms that opens onto the ‘Nile’, in this case, the Ionian Sea.