![]() The imprisoned and chained Aida is alone in a room with her captor.In the opera, she's a Clingy Jealous Girl who is rather ruthless to her rival in love, and they were only engaged initially because Radames had no other choice. Disneyfication: The one who suffers most from this is Amneris.Hotter and Sexier too-the sight of a clearly post-coital Aida and Radames can be quite shocking. Darker and Edgier: Than most Disney musicals.Dark Reprise: "My Strongest Suit", "How I Know You", "Elaborate Lives", and "Enchantment Passing Through" all get these to some degree, but the last two are particularly blatant.Crowd Song: "Dance of the Robe", "The Gods Love Nubia".Cosmic Plaything: Aida and Radames suspect they may be this in "Written in the Stars".Concept Album: The show was born as this, with contributions from Tina Turner, Lulu and Sting, amongst others. ![]() Childhood Friend Romance: Radames tells Amneris, "I've loved you since we were children" and they've apparently been betrothed since then.Canon Foreigner: Zoser and Mereb don't appear in Verdi's opera.Buried Alive: Radames and Aida's fate is to be entombed alive together.Centuries later the reincarnations of Aida and Radames meet in a museum, as the spirit of Amneris looks on. The two die but Amneris learns from them and becomes a great and peaceful Pharaoh. A heartbroken Amneris, realizing she will soon lose everyone she has ever loved, allows Aida and Radames to be buried in the same tomb. Zoser is captured as a traitor, but so are Aida and Radames. Bittersweet Ending: The Nubian King escapes, at the cost of Mereb's life.Arranged Marriage: Amneris and Radames are betrothed, and from her perspective it's a Perfectly Arranged Marriage, but he doesn't return her feelings.Anachronism Stew: During a war planning scene, the city Khartoum is mentioned.Adaptational Nationality: In Verdi's opera, Aida and Amonasro are Ethiopian.Adaptational Jerkass: Radames is introduced less sympathetically than his operatic counterpart, treating the newly-enslaved Aida in a less than kind way (see Does This Remind You of Anything?, below), though he soon goes through positive Character Development as he falls in love with her.Adaptational Heroism: Amneris is more sympathetic and less of a Clingy Jealous Girl than in the original opera.Essentially, the plot of the opera is the musical's second act, while the first act is backstory for it. Verdi's opera begins with her already Amneris's slave and with her and Radames already secretly in love. Adaptation Expansion: The storyline here begins with Aida's capture and enslavement, then shows her gradually falling in love with Radames and vice-versa.That said, the story isn't very action-oriented, so this aspect isn't very prominent. Action Girl: Aida herself has a lot of backbone and subdues a guard in an early scene.Finally, there's the closing scene which changes the Downer Ending to a Bittersweet Ending. Additionally, the opera has Radames sentenced to die for revealing the plans of the Egyptian army, and Aida, who had gotten away sneaking into his tomb so they can be Together in Death in the musical, the crime is helping the Nubian king escape, and Aida fails to escape and is captured and sentenced along with him. The musical also has Radames betrothed to Amneris for nearly a decade in the opera, he's unaware that she's in love with him and the engagement is sprung on him to his complete surprise. Most notably, the opera begins with Radames and Aida already in love, while the musical depicts their first meeting and the development of their relationship. The musical differs from the opera in a few ways. Since the film was supposed to release in 2010 and hasn't started production, it's likely that it got swallowed up in Development Hell. Most of the songs are written by Elton John and lyrics by Tim Rice, the same team that wrote the songs to The Lion King.Rumours of it being filmed by Disney circulated in 2007, with Beyonce Knowles as Aida and Christina Aguilera as Amneris, but nothing more has ever been announced. It is a recording of the songs as heard in the 2000 stage musical, Aida. Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida: Original Broadway Cast Recording is a cast recording released in 2000 by Walt Disney Records.
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