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

You know you’re in trouble when a grand new production of Verdi’s “Aida” only catches ... after the “Triumphal March”—when Amonasro shows up. The Metropolitan Opera’s show ...

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 ...

Strong performances by chorus, orchestra and the father-daughter pairing of Amartuvshin Enkhbat and Anna Pirozzi make this ...

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 ...

Verdi's Aida live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York ...

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 ...

But this is (and Aida always will be) an opera about spectacle as much as music, and the chorus is key to that. Not only does William Spaulding have them parade with er… military precision ...

It was Peter Gelb, general manager of New York Metropolitan Opera. The principal tenor singing the role of Radamés in the Met’s new staging of Verdi’s “Aida” was fighting a virus.