Takarazuka Grand Theater Soragumi June 19 2015 - A Song For Kingdoms [1080px264].mkv
Captured from WOWOW Live on October 22, 2016
Info and summary from TakaWiki: English Title: A Song for Kingdoms: From the Opera "Aida" Japanese Title: 王家に捧ぐ歌－オペラ「アイーダ」より Romanized Title: Ouke ni Sasagu Uta - Opera "Aida" Yori
Troupe: Cosmos Year: 2015 Performances: Grand Theater, 06/05 - 07/13; Tokyo Theater, 07/31 - 08/30 In ancient Egypt of 3500 years ago, Pharaoh, King of Egypt, is about to appoint a general of the Egyptian army to again fight Ethiopia. Radames, a young Egyptian warrior, hopes he will be chosen as commander-in-chief, envisioning the chance of returning in triumph and of asking for the hand of Aida with whom he is secretly in love. Aida, Princess of Ethiopia, saved from death by Radames during the preceding war was taken to Egypt as a captive and, since then, lives as a slave. She too is attracted to the young and brave Radames, although she knows well that he is a warrior of the enemy of her country. However, being the slave she is, Aida never reveals to him her private thoughts. Radames promises Aida who grieves for her country that he will free the Ethiopian slaves once the war is over. She then asks him what the liberation of the Ethiopian slaves means to him. Amneris, Princess of Egypt, then glamorously enters with her court ladies from the top of a stone stairway. Amneris who loves the brave warrior Radames herself senses his feelings for Aida because of his way of turning his eyes upon Aida. Now that Radames is in love with Aida, Amneris is consumed by suspicion, and Aida is torn between her love for Radames and for her native land, their feelings surge and flow like the Nile.