Aida is a story of love, devotion and betrayal spanning lifetimes, featuring a score by two of music's most extraordinary and revered artists, composer Elton John and lyricist Tim Rice ...

The pictures were indeed pretty, but the music-making struggled to infuse them with life. The first sign of problems appeared early: Radamès, the Egyptian general besotted with Aida, the ...

Transplanting a tale of ancient Egypt to a modern-day military dictatorship is a difficult and rather dubious task, but ...

Outstanding Actress in a Musical: Heather Headley was nominated but did not win. 2000 Tony Awards Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical: Heather Headley won.

A beloved version of that scale helmed the Met for more than three decades -- so staging a new production of "Aida," a tale of love, war and loyalty set in ancient Egypt, was a tall order. "Because ...

Outstanding Actress in a Musical: Heather Headley was nominated but did not win. 2000 Tony Awards Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical: Heather Headley won.

From the Metropolitan Opera in New York, starring Angel Blue as the Ethiopian princess Aida and Piotr Beczala as her lover Radamès. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts. Show more Fom the Metropolitan ...

"Aida" has long epitomized opera at its most extravagant -- think sweeping sets, luxurious costumes and even real-live horses, an experience intended to transfix the audience with grandeur. A ...