DEN HAAG - Met Aïda aan Zee begint donderdag de dertiende editie van Festival Classique. Hiervoor is uitgeweken naar een bijzondere locatie: het Zuiderstrand van Den Haag. Na eerder ...
Aida is among the most popular operatic works performed in Egypt, and its history features a series of remarkable performances and events commemorating the opera and the composer. During the opening ...
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The Royal Opera - Aida

Last night was the opening of the second revival of Robert Carsen’s production of Verdi’s four-act opera Aida for the Royal Opera. This grandest of grand operas is set in ancient Egypt and examines ...
Earlier this season at the Met, Meade stepped in to sing the title role of Bellini's Norma and also starred as Elisabetta di Valois in Verdi's Don Carlo. Other highlights at the house include her ...
Italian conductor Nicola Luisotti returns to Covent Garden this month to conduct the new production of Aida, directed by David McVicar. Earlier appearances in the house have included Turandot, Il ...
SeokJong Baek and Angel Blue in the Met’s new Aida. Photo: Ken Howard/Met Opera In Aida’s final scene, the treasonous general Radamés, who has been interred as punishment, finds his slave princess ...
Aida, the tragic opera which was first performed in 1871, is finally making a comeback to British stages. The Italian performance will be hitting London on Saturday, March 23 and Sunday, March 24 next ...
Yes, it’s that grandly spectacular opera that plays out in Egypt, its story set in some Eurocentric vision of an ancient land with made-up wars, muddled historical periods and an absolutely ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by But opening night of the huge production’s final run, shakily cast, presented a show that seemed to be begging to retire. By Zachary Woolfe “I’m not ...
Editor’s note: This is the first in a three-part series of reported commentaries on the future of opera. NEW YORK — It’s a big house. The Metropolitan Opera seats nearly 4,000 people up into its fifth ...