“It was never in my imaginings when I applied to work here, nor when I was hired, nor even a month ago, that I would be asked to step up and serve the Utah Shakespeare Festival as its interim artistic director,” Livingston said in a statement. Livingston will fill the role while the festival conducts a nationwide search for a permanent artistic director, the festival said. Livingston was first hired as a director of new play development and an artistic associate, according to the festival’s announcement. Amneris mourns for Radames as Aida dies in his arms.With only four days before the 2022 Utah Shakespeare Festival begins, the Cedar City-based arts group has named a new interim artistic director, after the abrupt departure of longtime artistic director Brian Vaughn.ĭerek Charles Livingston, who has worked for USF since March 2021, will take on the interim role, the festival announced Thursday. Radames has been sealed in a tomb where he is surprised to discover Aida waiting for him. The priests condemn him to be entombed alive for treason. Amneris becomes increasingly frantic as she realizes that he will not even attempt to defend himself. The priests file into the judgement chamber and call out the charges against Radames. She summons him to her presence and begs him to forget Aida and love her instead this is the price of her intercession on his behalf with the Pharaoh. Act IV Scene 1Īmneris realizes that she must try to save Radames from the harsh verdict of the priests. Amonasro moves to attack Amneris but Radames prevents him, and Amonasro and Aida escape. Amneris and Ramfis emerge from the temple. Radames is appalled that he has unwittingly betrayed his country, and now refuses to escape with them. He tells her, whereupon Amonasro steps forward and reveals his true identity. He therefore agrees to flee with her and she asks him which route they should take to avoid the Egyptian troops. When at first he refuses, she points out that she and her father are certain to be executed if they remain in Egypt. When Radames arrives Aida suggests to him that he does not love her enough to leave Egypt and live with her in Ethiopia. Her thoughts are interrupted by her father, who demands that she discovers the line of attack by which Radames will make the next Egyptian assault. Radames has chosen a place nearby for a final rendezvous with Aida, who dreams of her homeland while she waits for him. On the eve of her marriage, Amneris is taken by Ramfis to pray in the temple of Isis. Amneris exults at this unexpected turn of fortune, while Radames and Aida despair. He then presents Radames with the hand of his daughter, Amneris, and the promise that he will one day rule as Pharaoh. The Pharaoh agrees to the compromise suggestion that Aida and her father should be retained as hostages. Radames, however, requests freedom for the Ethiopians as his reward. He pleads for his fellow captives’ lives, but Ramfis and the priests demand their death. Aida recognizes among them her father he is disguised as a captain and warns her not to reveal his true identity. Radames asks for the Ethiopian prisoners to be summoned. Amneris crowns him victor, and the Pharaoh offers him any reward he may name. The Egyptians have won the war and a triumphal procession celebrates Radames’ victory.
After threatening Aida, Amneris departs for the festivities. Amneris has confirmed her suspicion that Aida is her rival. Aida’s grief at this news turns to joy when Amneris admits that she lied about Radames’s death in order to trick the slave girl into admitting her love. Amneris tells Aida that Radames has been killed in battle.
Slaves dance for her amusement until she dismisses them at Aida’s approach. Act II Scene 1Īmneris prepares for the celebrations to welcome back Radames. Ramfis conducts Radames to the altar, where he receives a sword and the gods’ blessing on the campaign. Sacred rites are performed in the temple. In despair, she implores the pity of the gods. Alone, she is torn between her love for her country and for Radames. The Egyptians are unaware that Aida is the daughter of the Ethiopian king, Amonasro. He announces that Isis has chosen Radames as Egyptian commander-in-chief and leads everyone in demanding revenge on the Ethiopians. The Pharaoh enters with the priests and his court to hear reports of the invasion. She suspects that he prefers Aida to her. Amneris, Princess of Egypt, secretly loves Radames and questions him about his feelings. Radames hopes that he has been chosen so that he may return victorious to Aida, an enemy slave in the Royal household for whom he cannot openly admit his love. Ramfis, the chief priest, tells Radames that the god Isis has chosen the general who will lead the Egyptian armies into battle against the invading Ethiopians. Egypt in the time of the Pharaohs Act I Scene 1
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