The creative adventure of "Aida" and the cultural and political climate in which the work of Giuseppe Verdi was born. This is what the exhibition " Aida, daughter of two worlds " ( 17 March - 5 June 2022 ) proposes to tell, with which the Egyptian Museum celebrates the 150th anniversary of the debut of "Aida", which took place in Cairo on December 24, 1871 and at the Scala in Milan on February 8, 1872, years of intense dialogue and cultural exchange between Europe and Egypt.

The exhibition is curated by Enrico Ferraris, Egyptologist of the Egyptian Museum and creator of a transmedia project that goes beyond the borders of Egypt and involves various cultural institutions, in a path that ranges between opera, theater, Egyptology, history, literature and cinema. the result of a scientific project jointly signed by the director of the Egyptian Museum, Christian Greco and the curator, Enrico Ferraris.

The main partner of the exhibition is the Ricordi Historical Archive, while the scientific partners are the National Institute of Verdian Studies and the Teatro Regio di Torino. The University of Turin, together with the National Cinema Museum, Ajax, the Teatro Regio di Torino and the Conservatory, has curated a quarterly calendar of meetings, in-depth studies and film reviews, dedicated to "Aida" and Ancient and contemporary Egypt, as part of the UniVerso project. A dedicated reading group will also be held at the Circolo dei conti, starting from the end of March and in April, a meeting with the mystery writer Giancarlo De Cataldo, who proposes a reflection on melodrama as the theater of all human feelings.