Transplanting a tale of ancient Egypt to a modern-day military dictatorship is a difficult and rather dubious task, but Robert Carsen's production of Aida gets away with it, showing that power, ...

Don’t miss your chance to see “Aida,” Verdi’s epic tale of love ... “Aida,” the grandest of grand operas, features an epic backdrop for what is in essence an intimate love story.

NEWBURYPORT — The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season of live Saturday matinee radio broadcasts continues with “Aida,” Verdi’s tragedy of forbidden love in ancient Egypt. Soprano Angel ...

In most people’s minds, though, it is his next creation that embodies all that grand opera should be. Verdi was commissioned by the Khedive (Viceroy) of Egypt to write a piece for the new opera house ...

the grand columns of said temples and palaces and colourful dance and chorus scenes the perfect recipe for a crowd-pleaser. But strip this away – as in Robert Carsen’s stark and deliberately cold ...

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts. Show more Fom the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Verdi’s monumental tragedy of forbidden love in ancient Egypt. Aida is an Ethiopian princess held captive in ...

It’s a big house, and in Act 2, Scene 2, of its former production of “Aida” by Giuseppe Verdi, a phalanx of Egyptian soldiers descended via massive stage lift from near the very top of it. When they ...

Born in Kostelec nad Labem, she studied at the Prague Conservatory before debuting in Tbilisi in 1857. Stolz achieved international acclaim, notably performing the title role in Verdi’s Aida at La ...

Stage hands move set pieces backstage for Giuseppe Verdi's "Aida ... the history of Grand Opera, you see a lot of operas that are set in exotic locales," he said, citing "Aida" along with ...

The last act of which the composer of Aida and Don Carlos, Rigoletto and Otello seems to have been conscious was buttoning up his waistcoat. Giuseppe Verdi spent his last Christmas and saw in his last ...