Editing Aida (section)

==Adaptations==
The 1952 [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] musical ''[[My Darlin' Aida]]'', set on a plantation in Tennessee in the first year of the [[American Civil War]], is based on the opera and uses Verdi's music.<ref>{{IBDB title|2348|My Darlin' Aida}}</ref>

The opera has been adapted for motion pictures on several occasions, most notably in [[Aida (1953 film)|a 1953 production]] which starred [[Lois Maxwell]] as Amneris and [[Sophia Loren]] as Aida, and a [[Aida (1987 film)|1987 Swedish production]]. In both cases, the lead actors [[lip sync|lip-synched]] to recordings by actual opera singers. In the case of the 1953 film, [[Ebe Stignani]] sang as Amneris, while [[Renata Tebaldi]] sang as Aida.

The opera's story, but not its music, was used as the basis for a 1998 [[Aida (musical)|musical of the same name]] written by [[Elton John]] and [[Tim Rice]].

The opera has been portrayed in the 2001 Italian animated film ''[[Aida of the Trees]]'' (''Aida degli alberi''). The characters are seen as anthropomorphic creatures between the fictional kingdoms of Alborea and Petra as the star-crossed lovers must find a way to unify their worlds while facing off against the evil high priest Ramfis.

The 2022 version choreographed by the [[Royal Opera House]] (directed by [[Robert Carsen]]) set the opera in a modern, [[Soviet]]-style, [[totalitarian state]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Richard |first1=Fairman |title=A totalitarian reimagining of Aida gets to the heart of Verdi's opera |url=https://www.ft.com/content/4e9f1f5d-ecb2-473c-be55-92268b959aac |access-date=15 April 2025 |work=Financial Times |date=2025-01-23}}</ref>