Washington National Opera (WNO) opens its 2017-2018 season with a new production of Verdi's grand Egyptian epic Aida, September 9-23, 2017, in the Kennedy Center Opera House. In this majestically ...

For the first time in more than a decade, Verdi’s romantic and political drama Aida returns to Lyric Opera of Chicago, March 9 to April 7, 2024. See photos from the production below. Music Director ...

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One can see the Washington National Opera’s point in choosing its Aida for the upcoming “Opera in the Outfield,” the company’s invitation to any and all to give opera a try via the big screen at ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Michael Mayer is directing the Met’s first new production of Verdi’s classic in nearly four decades, aiming for something fresh yet enduring. By ...

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 ...

A little minuet in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, a hip-swinging processional in Verdi’s Aida, a ballroom waltz in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin — until fairly recently, that, generally speaking, was ...

The positives are considerable. Gone are conventional stage effects; instead, the performance is aurally stunning, with a symphony-sized orchestra on stage (and six of those ceremonial trumpets ...

Terrance McKnight: This is Every Voice with Terrance McKnight. It’s still a new podcast from WQXR, we’ve done ten episodes where we interrogate the culture of our classical music scene and we look at ...

With no Schiller or Shakespeare as base, only the Egyptians and international dignitaries to please for the opening of the Cairo Opera House, Verdi’s librettist Ghislanzoni and scenario deviser ...