Many see Aida as the grandest of all grand operas. Set by Verdi in the kingdom of ancient Egypt around 2,500 BC, the setting is changed by Carsen into an unspecified military dictatorship in ...

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 ...

Verdi was commissioned by the Khedive (Viceroy) of Egypt to write a piece for the new opera house in Cairo. He requested a fee of $20,000, an enormous amount in those days, and received it without a ...

Submitted by the Orcas Center. Don’t miss your chance to see “Aida,” Verdi’s epic tale of love, power and jealousy at Orcas Center on Tuesday, Feb. 4, at noon. Filmed live in high definition, these on ...

"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 ...

UTICA — The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live performance transmissions, continues at Munson with Giuseppe Verdi’s “Aida” at 12:30 p.m. Saturday ...

Daniel Oren conducts Verdi’s monumental score, with Anna Pirozzi as Aida, Riccardo Massi as Radames, Ekaterina Semenchuk as Amneris and Amartuvshin Enkhbat as Amonasro. An Egyptian Opera? ‘Cyprus; ...

“Are you in a show?” she asked. Yes, Blue said—“Aida,” at the Met Opera. Her companion added that Blue was starring in it. The museumgoer’s eyebrows shot up. “Wow!” she said.

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

“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 that ...

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 ...

An exuberant production of an early Verdi comic opera This opera, almost resulting in the composer abandoning his career as a composer, was Verdi’s second work. While his debut, ‘Oberto’ is also ...