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The Metropolitan Opera opened the New Year with its first new staging of Verdi’s Aida in 37 years. Regulars had every right to be trepidatious ... More archaeologists come and go throughout the opera, ...

A new Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of Verdi's Aida screens at the Lensic on Saturday, January 25, and is the subject of Pasatiempo's new review-writing contest.

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 ...

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts. Show more Fom the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Verdi’s monumental tragedy of forbidden love in ancient Egypt. Aida is an Ethiopian princess held captive in ...

During Verdi’s prelude, a harnessed Indiana Jones ... entirely conventional Aida more relevant by attaching itself to opera’s recent struggle with its long fetishization of “exotic ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Aida remains a thoroughly traditional ... who loves and who dies. Verdi’s triumph scene becomes a May Day military parade. Radames’s trial is ...

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 ...

When Robert Carsen’s wilfully, resolutely non-Egyptian staging of Verdi’s Aida was first presented in 2022, its abstract updating to an international zone of conflict, with echoes of military ...

Angel Blue, soprano superstar and Los Angeles native, stars in the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Verdi’s Aida, streaming Live in HD to cinemas around the world on 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; ...