A scene from Act 2 of the Metropolitan Opera's Aida production The Met retains the pseudo-realistic sets and costumes from 1987. The show looks like an Italian opera representation of Egypt in the ...

Verdi never wastes a note or a moment in propelling the drama or establishing location. Through specific combinations of instruments and musical modes, he evokes the Egyptian atmospheres. Silken ...

The project has been underway for nearly 30 years. It comes to spectacular fruition this weekend. Saturday, the Sarasota Opera premiered "Aida." When when the final curtain closed, the Sarasota Opera ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Verdi's Egyptian tragedy Aida, returned to the ...

“Aida” may well be the grandest of the grand operas, but it needs inspired staging and exceptional voices in order to make Verdi’s masterpiece shine. Seattle Opera’s current “Aida” does just that.

To clear up any lingering confusion, the "Aida" with music by Elton John and lyrics by Tim Rice that is playing at the Orpheum Theatre is not exactly the "Aida" by Giuseppe Verdi that was performed at ...

Has there ever been a more performance-proof work than “Aida”? Verdi’s imperishably popular grand opera has been around Chicago for as long as Chicago has had resident opera, and it has figured in ...

The Metropolitan Opera is doing Aida, Verdi’s opera, and I went on Friday night, for one reason, chiefly: to hear Krassimira Stoyanova sing the title role. I wondered: Could the great Bulgarian ...