"Because Aida is so big and so expensive ... of those audiences is vital for the art -- and the bottom line of institutions like the Met. "The future of the opera in America is really in the hands of ...

You have that immediate connection," BOF co-founder Jonathon Loy, lead assistant director on "Aida," said of working with festival alumni at the Met. "I get great joy out of saying to my colleagues, ...

By Javier C. Hernández Moments before she went onstage in “Aida” at the Metropolitan Opera on a recent night, the soprano Angel Blue was in her dressing room, smiling and blowing kisses on a ...

Angel Blue, soprano superstar and Los Angeles native, stars in the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Verdi’s Aida, streaming Live in HD to cinemas around the world on Saturday ...

Italian tenor Riccardo Massi has rapidly achieved international recognition as one of the most exciting and accomplished ...

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 ...

Aida has long epitomized opera at its most extravagant—think sweeping sets, luxurious costumes, and even real-live horses—an experience intended to ...

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 ...

The Metropolitan Opera opened the New Year with its first new staging of Verdi’s Aida in 37 years. Regulars had every right to be trepidatious: A few years ago we witnessed Gounod’s Faust drop the ...

"Because Aida is so big and so expensive... I did definitely feel the pressure of that," director Michael Mayer told AFP in a recent interview of his production that premiered this month, adding ...

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.