A scene from Act 2 of the Metropolitan Opera's Aida production The Met retains the pseudo-realistic sets and costumes from 1987. The show looks like an Italian opera representation of Egypt in the ...

Aida is among the most popular operatic works performed in Egypt, and its history features a series of remarkable performances and events commemorating the opera and the composer. During the opening ...

Now looming large at our own Virginia Opera, “Aida” is grand opera with an equally monumental history: in its origins, its past performances and its theatrical punch. This particular “Aida” is large ...

A timeless story of love and betrayal against the backdrop of war, a livestream of the opera, “Aida,” performed by the Metropolitan Opera will be shown Jan. 25 at the O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish ...

Given the world’s small number of first-rate Verdi singers, it comes as no surprise that tenor Arnold Rawls and bass Morris Robinson should cross paths—often amid the massive, gilded pageantry of the ...

What a striking coincidence that so soon after the monumental popular revolution in Egypt captured our attention, a monumental and perhaps revolutionary production of an opera set in Egypt is ...

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 ...

Opera doesn’t get any grander than this. In the typical operatic duet, according to George Bernard Shaw, who was a brilliant music critic before he turned to the relatively undemanding trade of ...

Aida, the tragic opera which was first performed in 1871, is finally making a comeback to British stages. The Italian performance will be hitting London on Saturday, March 23 and Sunday, March 24 next ...