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Aida
Aida Aida is permanently shadowed by Verdi's opera — one of the grandest of all tragic heroines, a woman whose love, filial duty, and ethnic loyalty cannot be simultaneously honored, and whose sacrifice is total. The name carries associations of regal bearing maintained under conditions of degradation, nobility that cannot be extinguished by enslavement, and a love so absolute it overcomes the will to live. It suits protagonists caught between irreconcilable loyalties whose final choice reveals the deepest truth of their character.
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Aida
Aida — Giuseppe Verdi / Antonio Ghislanzoni
The Ethiopian princess enslaved in Egypt whose love for the Egyptian general Radamès places her between loyalty to her homeland and her love, ending in the lovers' burial alive.
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