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

With new 'Aida' staging, Met tries out grandiose opera for the contemporary age "Aida" has long epitomized opera at its most extravagant -- think sweeping sets, luxurious costumes and even real-live ...

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

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 ...

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's new production of Verdi's iconic opera "Aida" starring Angel Blue as the heroine Aida, directed by ...

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 ...

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

Jorge de León (Radames) in The Royal Opera’s Aida - Marc Brenner ...

But this is (and Aida always will be) an opera about spectacle as much as music ... but also provide singing both full-throated in triumph and gorgeously subtle in an all but whispered ...