The Cairo Opera House will broadcast the Opera Aida on Saturday at the Egyptian Culture Ministry’s Youtube channel, starting at nine pm. Featuring music by the Cairo Opera Orchestra, dances will be ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Once used to frequent rejection letters, Blue has become a regular on major stages and is singing the title role in “Aida” at the Metropolitan Opera.

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 ...

Premiered in Cairo 150 years ago, set in an exoticised ancient Egypt and written by a man who refused to visit the country for fear of ‘being mummified’, the beloved opera has left a complex legacy in ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Michael Mayer directs Verdi’s classic as an archaeologist’s discovery, featuring the shining soprano Angel Blue. By Zachary Woolfe For a long time, ...

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 ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. May 6 is a significant date in Melbourne’s COVID-era recovery. The State Theatre will come alive ...

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 ...

Opera doesn’t get any grander than this. In the typical operatic duet, according to George Bernard Shaw, who was a brilliant music critic before he turned to the relatively undemanding trade of ...

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 ...

When Asa Irwin was growing up in Seattle, she knew talented black singers who performed in churches and sang in competitions. But “you never actually saw people of color performing in the major venues ...

Late in the afternoon on Nov. 10, lights began to dim as a packed audience eagerly waited at the Emerson Colonial Theatre. The Boston Lyric Opera’s staging of the classic opera “Aida,” with music by ...