The Liceu opens the season this Friday with the opera Aida, which this time will not have the colossal monumentality of the pyramids, the elephants and the triumphal march of the victors. The Iranian visual artist Shirin Neshat presents an intimate vision that removes layers and also shows the horrors of war, giving prominence to the defeated and not only the victors. Under the baton of the Italian director Antonello Manacorda, the opera has the incentive of opening the season and the return to the stage of the Russian soprano Anna Netrebko - the role will be exchanged with the Italian Anna Pirozzi - who was removed from the cast for a time after aligning herself with Putin.
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