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Aida
Videos
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CONTENTS
Broadway
Pre-Broadway - Broadway
Other English
Arranged by date
In German
Arranged by date
Other Languages/Countries
Alphabetical by country
Aida - Essen, Germany - March 27, 2004
VOB (with smalls) - 3.86GB
CAST: Florence Kasumba (Aida), Mathias Edenborn (Radames), Anke Fiedler (u/s Amneris), Danielle White (Amonasro), Mischa Mang (u/s Zoser), Ulrich Floth (Pharaoh), Ana-Milva Gomes (Nehebka), Joel Karie (Mereb)
NOTES: Decent quality, no close-up zooms but good mid-range shots that let you see the full glory of the show's lighting! (I LOVE Aida's lighting, so this is so awesome.) Some gen loss, but not bad.
Aida - Essen, Germany - July 31, 2005
VOB (with smalls)
CAST: Judith Lefeber (Aida), Bernard Forcher (Radames), Maricel (Amneris), Kristian Vetter (Zoser)
NOTES: VHS transfer. A little soft from generation loss, but always in focus and very well filmed with no obstructions. The sound is great, too!
Aida - TV Compilation
MP4
FEAUTURING: Heather Headley, Sherie Rene Scott, Adam Pascal, etc.
NOTES: 90 minutes of TV clips of songs, interviews, ads, and even some of the OBC singing non-Aida music. (Okay, outright: you get to hear Adam playing his guitar and singing.) Quality of the clips varies.
Aida - Pre-Broadway/Chicago - November 23, 1999
VOB (with smalls) (SD)
CAST: Heather Headley (Aida), Adam Pascal (Radames), Sherie Rene Scott (Amneris), John Hickok (Zoser), Damian Perkins (Mereb)
NOTES: Quality...hmm...it starts off with close-ups of performers' butts and My Strongest Suit is filmed on a true diagonal. But that's okay, because you're not here to be amazed by quality; you're here to see why you never submit the rough draft.
Aida - Broadway - March 29, 2000 (Matinee) (Major's master)
VOB (with smalls) (SD)
CAST: Heather Headley (Aida), Adam Pascal (Radames), Sherie Rene Scott (Amneris), John Hickok (Zoser), Schele Williams (Nehebka), Damian Perkins (Mereb)
NOTES: Excellent quality video. The Aida OBC was incredible (and I am not an OBC purist in general), and this is a great introduction to the show and to them.
Aida - Broadway - December 3, 2000
VOB (no smalls)
CAST: Heather Headley (Aida), Adam Pascal (Radames), Sherie Rene Scott (Amneris), Tyrees Allen (Amonasro), John Hickok (Zoser), Daniel Oreskes (Pharaoh), Phineas Newborn III (u/s Mereb)
NOTES: Camera master was indeed a...master. A weird thing to pick out, but, Adam Pascal's (Radames) performance in Fortune Favors the Brave was especially good here! Heather Headley is incomparable as Aida--everyone else is competing for second place.
Aida - Broadway – “March 27, 2001” (Fall 2001?)
MP4 (SD)
CAST: Maya Days (Aida), Adam Pascal (Radames), Idina Menzel (Amneris), John Hickok (Zoser), Damian Perkins (Mereb)
NOTES: Date is most likely wrong--Idina Menzel only played Amneris Sep 13, 2001 - Jan 27, 2002.
Aida - Broadway - May 19, 2001
VOB (with smalls) (SD)
CAST: Heather Headley (Aida), Will Chase (u/s Radames), Taylor Dayne (Amneris), John Hickok (Zoser)
NOT MY NOTES: Only recording of Taylor Dayne as Amneris. Filmed around a head, bottom center.
Aida - Broadway - June 23, 2002
VOB (no smalls)
CAST: Simone (Aida), William Robert Gaynor (u/s Radames), Felicia Finley (Amneris)
TRADER'S NOTES: Strong cast, great sound, very good video, *excellent* camera work!
Aida - Broadway - August 27, 2002
VOB (with smalls)
CAST: Maya Days (Aida), Adam Pascal (Radames), Felicia Finley (Amneris), John Hickok (Zoser), Damian Perkins (Mereb)
NOTES: My best Broadway Aida video so far.
Aida - Broadway - October 20, 2002
VOB (with smalls)
CAST: Schele Williams (u/s Aida), Matt Bogart (u/s Radames), Felicia Finley (Amneris)
Aida - Barn Theatre (Augusta, MI) - 2004
VOB (with smalls) - 2.24GB
CAST: Karmine Alers (Aida), Jason Workman, (Radames), Maura Hurley (Amneris), Joe Aiello (Zoser), Arbender Robinson (Mereb), Penelope Alex (Nehebka)
Aida - National Tour - November 18, 2001
VOB (with smalls) (SD)
CAST: Simone (Aida), Patrick Cassidy (Radames), Kelli Fournier (Amneris)
NOTES: This is a really nice video with great sound (maybe A-?), and I loved getting to hear Simone as Aida.
Aida - US Tour (Philadelphia, PA) - June 12, 2002
VOB (with smalls)
CAST: Paulette Ivory (Aida), Jeremy Kushnier (Radames), Kelli Fournier (Amneris)
Aida - Limelight Productions, Edinburgh – September/October 2014
MP4
CAST: Mia Oudeh (Aida), Fiona Dawson (Amneris), Nick Tomlinson (Radames), Bobby Mitchell (Zoser), Fraser Jamieson (Mereb)
NOTES: Lovely video of a great non-replica production, and in the UK!
Aida - Bellport, New York - July 19, 2005
VOB (with smalls)
CAST: Idara Victor (Aida), Nicholas Belton (Radames), Elizabeth Stanley (Amneris)
NOTES: Idara Victor is really good and Elizabeth Stanley likewise. The rest of the cast is pretty meh. Some of the show was cut out, like "Not Me." And, well, with some of the costume design...choices were made.
Aida - Wichita - July 27, 2005 (Proshot)
VOB (with smalls) (SD)
CAST: Montego Glover (Aida), Darren Ritchie (Radames), Chelsea Krombach (Amneris)
NOTES: Montego Glover has since starred in Les Mis+Hamilton on Broadway and received a Tony nomination for Memphis--and it shows here!
Aida - Non Equity Tour - November 9, 2006 (SunsetBlvd79's master)
VOB (with smalls) (SD)
CAST: Marja Harmon (Aida), Casey Elliot (Ramades), Leah Allers (Amneris), Dane Harrington Joseph (Mareb), DJ Rudd, Michael Johnson
NOTES: Emphatically and enthusiastically non-replica! Cast is not the strongest, but the production design and staging are really neat. (Except the lighting design, which is often too dark.)
Aida - Broadway Theater of Pitman, Pitman, NJ - 2019
MP4
CAST: Queade Norah (Aida), Sophie Jones (Amneris), Andy Boettcher (Radames), David M. Mooney-Todd (Zoser), Philip Anthony Wilson (Mereb)
Aida - Essen, Germany - March 17, 2004
VOB (with smalls)
CAST: Florence Kassumba (Aida), Mathias Edenborn (Radames), Anke Fiedler (Amneris), Kristian Vetter (Zoser)
Aida – Essen – August 23, 2004: Tag der offenen Tür (PR Day)
VOB (with smalls) - LT, 2:1
NOTES: The first and part of the second VOB is a really neat set of concert-ish performances of songs, possibly at a mall. The rest of the file is a different musical that I didn't recognize and is date-stamped 2005. That said, the Aida parts are VERY nice quality--shot from close up, but not so close that you're looking up people's noses. Plus, since Aida is such a lighting-effect heavy show (which I love, don't get me wrong), you really get a sense for just how strong the performers are even when lacking that support.
Aida - Essen - March 12, 2005
VOB (with smalls) - 1disc, 4.3gb
CAST: Thomas Puskailer (Radames), Judith Lefeber (Aida), Maricel (Amneris), Kristian Vetter (Zoser), Rey Rodriguez, Lutz Ulrich Flöth, Walter Reynolds
NOTES: An excellent video. You miss action on far stage left (master was avoiding a head), but the show is nicely captured and there's not much generation loss. Overall, I'd say this and the 25. April video are equally excellent---this one is a bit better quality, the other a slightly better capture.
Aida – Essen, Germany – April 25, 2005
VOB (with smalls) – 2 disc, 8.41gb
CAST: Bernhard Forcher (Radames), Ana Milva Gomes (Aida), Kristian Vetter (Zoser), Sean Parkins, Dominique Aref (Amneris), Daniel White
NOT MY NOTES: A bit of generation loss with thin tracking line at the bottom of the screen but not too bothersome. Great sound and beautifully filmed with no obstructions, steady camerawork, nice closeups. [B+]
Aida – Munich, Germany – January 6, 2006
VOB (with smalls) – 2 disc, 7.1gb
CAST: Ana Milva Gomes, Armin Kahl, Bettina Mönch, Kristian Vetter
NOTES: Great capture of a slightly different cast than a lot of other German Aida boots. Shot from the orchestra/stalls, too!
Aida - Amstetten, Austria - 2008 (Proshot)
VOB (with smalls)
CAST: Ava Brennan (Aida), Mathias Edenborn (Radames), Nazide Aylin (Amneris), Walter Reynolds (Amonasro), Paul Vaes (Zoser), Michael Flöth (Pharaoh), Pehton Quirante (Mereb)
NOTES: This is so many levels of awesome. Dialogue is all in German; songs are mixed German and English--including sometimes in the same song!
Aida - Klagenfurt, Austria - July 27, 2008
VOB (with smalls)
CAST: Zodwa Selele (Aida), Christian Alexander Müller (Radames), Barbara Xantus (Amneris), Vincent Bueno
NOTES: Outdoor theatre where the sun goes down over the course of the show! <3 Dialogue is in German; songs are in English.
Aida - Tecklenburg - July 25, 2009
VOB (with smalls) (SD)
CAST: Zodwa Selele (Aida), Patrick Stanke (Radames), Willemijn Verkaik (Amneris), Mario Mariano (Amonasro), Marc Clear (Zoser), Ansgar Schäfer (Pharaoh), Milica Jovanovic (Nehebka), Thada Suanduanchai (Mereb)
NOTES: This isn't the proshot, but with such amazing A/V you could've fooled me! A show set in the desert playing at the Freilichtbühne is an experience--and honestly, they made it work--but you're hear to watch Willemijn Verkaik be awesome, anyway. One of my absolute favorite videos.
Aida - Tecklenburg - August 29, 2009 (Pro-Shot's master)
VOB (with smalls) (SD)
CAST: Zodwa Selele (Aida), Patrick Stanke (Radames), Willemijn Verkaik (Amneris), Mario Mariano (Amonasro), Marc Clear (Zoser), Ansgar Schäfer (Pharaoh), Milica Jovanovic (Nehebka), Thada Suanduanchai (Mereb)
NOTES: Okay, fine, it's also fun to get the multidirectional close-ups. Willemijn Verkaik appears to have though, "You know what, kids? I'm in a ROCK MUSICAL," and it's great fun to watch.
Aida - Nordhausen, Germany - December 28, 2013 (whichiswitch’s master)
VOB (with smalls) - 7.71gb
CAST: Nyassa Alberta (Aida), Patrick Stanke (Radames), Femke Soetenga (Amneris), Marvin Scott (Amonasro), Kristian Vetter (Zoser), Uta Haase (Pharaoh), Anja Daniela Wagner (Nehebka), Marian Kalus (Mereb)
NOTES: Two-disc version. Quality: A
Aida - Scheveningen, Netherlands July 8, 2003
VOB (with smalls) - 2.94GB
CAST: Chaira Borderslee (Aida), Bastiaan Ragas (Radames), Marleen van der Loo (u/s Amneris), Ben Cramer (Pharaoh)
Aida - Brazil - 2008 (Pro-Shot's master)
VOB (with smalls) (SD)
CAST: Corina Sabbas (Aida), Matheus Herriez (Radames), Naíma (Amneris), Lui Mendes (Amonasro), Saulo Vasconcelos (Zoser), Celso André (Pharaoh), Carol Bezerra (Nehebka), Danilo Morais (Mereb)
Aida - Mexico - October 2010 (Proshot’s master)
VOB (with smalls)
CAST: Paola Gomez, Mariano Palacios, Marina de la Rosa, Miguel Angel Luna, Jose Roberto Ahued, Hugo Montano, Francisco Escarcega, Isabel Amuchastegui
NOTES: Multicam proshot!
Aida - Netherlands - July 31, 2003
VOB (with smalls)
CAST: Carolina Dijkhuizen (alt Aida), René van Kooten (Radames), Antje Monteiro (Amneris)
NOTES: Replica production. Full show from 31 July; PLUS bonus highlights--Act 1!--from Carolina Dijkhuizen's final performance on 2 August.
Aida - Semi-concert, Rosmalen, Netherlands - June, 2019 (Rumpel's master)
VOB (with smalls)
CAST: April Darby (Aida), Freek Bartels (Radames), Willemijn Verkaik (Amneris), Tony Neef (Zoser), Tjindjara Metschendorp (Nehebka), Nigel Brown (Mereb)
NOTES: This is WAY COOL. Massive outdoor arena (props to the master, who was sitting way back and did an A+ job), and technically a concert in that it's just the songs, no dialogue. But this is no Les Mis anniversary, people in a line at the front of the stage in costume concert. I won't spoil it. Go watch!