Who wrote the opera Aida?
Aida Aida Aida () is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in the Old Kingdom of Egypt, it was commissioned by Cairo's Khedivial Opera House and had its première there on 24 December 1871, in a performance conducted by Giovanni Bottesini. Today the work holds a central place in the operatic canon, receiving performances every year around the world; at New York's Metropolitan Opera alone, "Aida" has been sung more than 1,100 times since 1886. Ghislanzoni's scheme follows a scenario often attributed to the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, but Verdi biographer
Aida Čorbadžić Aida Čorbadžić Aida Čorbadžić (born 8 March 1976) is a Bosnian opera singer. She was born in Zavidovići and lives in Sarajevo. She primarily sings soprano. She received a special award at the secondary competition of music schools in Bugojno. Čorbadžić studied singing at the Music Academy in Sarajevo, graduating in 2006. Aida is a recipient of the Sarajevo municipality scholarship as well as the Vienna-based Central and Eastern European Musiktheater fellowship. She attended Secondary Music School in Sarajevo and in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2004, Čorbadžić joined the National Opera of Sarajevo's choir, which employed her as a soloist in