Set in the time of Ancient Egypt, Aida is the exciting and passionate ... featuring a score by two of music's most extraordinary and revered artists, composer Elton John and lyricist Tim Rice ...

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

Set in the time of Ancient Egypt, Aida is the exciting and passionate ... 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 ...

The issue of cultural appropriation remains a hot topic in opera. Is it still PC to have Puccini’s Madama Butterfly set in Japan or his Turandot in China? And what is to be done with Verdi’s Aida, a ...

so I learned about ancient Egypt from the Bible—Exodus and Deuteronomy, basically,” she said. “I’ve learned a lot being in ‘Aida.’ ” She cocked her head, alert to music in an ...

Anna Pirozzi and Raehann Bryce-Davis shine in Robert Carsen and Daniel Oren’s spectacular version of Verdi's opera blending human passion and military precision ...

A large audience of Italian music aficionados ... famed for his architectural designs of Egypt's royal palaces. Opera Aida, which continues to be performed to this day, was first performed ...

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 ...