What exactly did Renée Fleming mean by calling Giuseppe Verdi’s sword-and-sandal epic an “intimate” opera? Fleming, the American diva, introduced the Metropolitan Opera’s live high-definition ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Opera Grand Rapids has announced that one of its next productions will be Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida. The opera will be performed at the DeVos Performance Hall on May 5 and 7. The ...

State buildings overwhelm the individual - the intention, of course, is to project power, to underline the futility of dissent, to bolster the egos of the leaders and their lackeys. In the 80s, to go ...

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 ...

Aida and Princess Amneris both love the Egyptian military hero Radames. He loves Aida, so the jealous Amneris decides to destroy them both. Aida’s father, King Amonasro of Ethiopa, captured and hiding ...

"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 ...