Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. For the first time in more than a decade, Verdi’s romantic and political drama ...

The project has been underway for nearly 30 years. It comes to spectacular fruition this weekend. Saturday, the Sarasota Opera premiered "Aida." When when the final curtain closed, the Sarasota Opera ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Verdi's Egyptian tragedy Aida, one of the most-performed operas in company history ...

Fikile Mvinjelwa as Amonasro and soprano Mary Elizabeth Williams as Aida in Virginia Opera’s production of Verdi’s “Aida.” Photograph by David Polston, courtesy of Virginia Opera Erhard Rom’s set was ...

Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Aida is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in ...

Jorge de León and Krassimira Stoyanova play it by the numbers in Verdi’s Aïda. Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera. The operas of Giuseppe Verdi are not only—for the most part—masterpieces, they are ...

Aida is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in Egypt, it was commissioned by and first performed at Cairo's Khedivial Opera House on December 24, ...

The projections added little to what Verdi packed into his score. Despite episodes of spectacle, such as the Triumphal Scene, "Aida" is an intimate opera in which the characters engage in emotional ...

My family has a penchant for the dramatic, and a deep love of opera. It was the soundtrack to my childhood, with my mom and her eldest sister playing excerpts to each other over the phone. I know the ...

When Robert Carsen’s wilfully, resolutely non-Egyptian staging of Verdi’s Aida was first presented in 2022, its abstract updating to an international zone of conflict, with echoes of military China, ...