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 ...

What makes a “grand opera” grand? Well, in part, it’s the sheer number of artists involved, reviewer Page Laws says.

Houston Grand Opera has revealed its 2026-27 season, which includes a new production of Verdi’s Aida; a new staging of ...

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 ...

If she has the voice of an angel, and the face of an angel, she must be an Angel. Angel Blue, that is. The American soprano, one of the most admired singers of her generation, is headlining the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Michael Mayer is directing the Met’s first new production of Verdi’s classic in nearly four decades, aiming for something fresh yet enduring. 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 ...

May 9, 2018 May 9, 2018 Updated Aug 11, 2023 In celebrating 20 years of bringing opera alive to Pikes Peak region audiences, the nonprofit Opera Theatre of the Rockies will stage one of the world's ...

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, ...

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Opera Naples and TheatreZone are producing the same story during their upcoming seasons. But it's a happy kinship, not a carbon copy. Both have scheduled the famous story of "Aida," the first for Dec.