Opera Maine will present an original production of Verdi’s Aida at Merrill Auditorium Thursday, July 25 (7:30 p.m.) and Sunday, July 28 (2:30 p.m.). Audiences will be enthralled by the gorgeous music ...

“You have love, war, passion and betrayal — all the situations that you can sing about in an opera, you can find them in Aida.” — Riccardo Massi, Italian spinto tenor He’s a soldier, captain of the ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2018-19 Live in HD series begins Saturday, Oct. 6, with “Aida” by Giuseppe Verdi. This season’s lineup offers something for everyone: an array of well-known and lesser-known ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Verdi's timeless Aida returns to the Wortham stage in a new production directed by ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — Sonja Frisell was a 9-year-old growing up in England when she saw still photos of “Caesar and Cleopatra,” a 1945 movie starring Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains. “My mother wouldn’t ...

When it comes to grand opera, it doesn’t get any bigger, or grander, than “Aida,” Verdi’s tragic love story of a captive Ethiopian princess (Aida) and an Egyptian general (Radames) set in Egypt at the ...

Terrance McKnight: This is Every Voice with Terrance McKnight on WQXR. It’s a radio special that looks at the representations of blackness in Verdi’s opera Aida. Growing up I played two instruments, ...

CUTLINES - Tulsa Opera is closing out its 65th season in grand fashion with a production of Verdi's "Aida" that is at once sumptuously grand and surprisingly, searingly personal. Few places and times ...

“Aida” may well be the grandest of the grand operas, but it needs inspired staging and exceptional voices in order to make Verdi’s masterpiece shine. Seattle Opera’s current “Aida” does just that.

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, ...