Opera in four acts on a libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, after a short story by Auguste Mariette-Bey The opera Aida was composed in 1870 and opens the final trilogy of Giuseppe Verdi’s operas, followed by Othello and Falstaff. It is based on a short story written by the French Egyptologist scholar Auguste Mariette – the first director of the Cairo Museum, honored with the title of Bey. In the ...