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AIDA PURE ENJOYMENT 

NO FOOTBALL – JUST A MEMORABLE NIGHT AT THE OPERA

Spectacle overcomes distorting elements

For $ 7 million, the cost of staging of Operama’s Aida at the Sydney Football Ground, one would expect a memorable spectacle.
And indeed, that is what was delivered last night.
Aida is a remarkable experience, something not to be missed.
It is a special occasion, something extraordinary; not always entirely satisfactory but something to remember.
We might have winced at paying $30 to $200 for tickets but we enjoyed.
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We might have even attended wearing t-shirts and expect to hear glorious voices from a stage too ludicrously large to do them justice.
But the singing was fabulous.
After the show we knew we had seen something extraordinary. We had not been wasting our time.
Aida is an opera presented for the sake of spectacle and curiously, there was a sense in which it worked last night when it was most easy, most intimate.
Act one in particular was awful due to the elements. The sound was tossed about by wind and fine rain; it was ghastly and quite unacceptable by reasonable standards.
We became accustomed to the scale but the failure in fidelity of sound carried into Act Two when we had the sensational elements of last night’s performance….it became a memorable experience.
A giant Sphinx dominates the setting of Aida.