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 ...
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 ...
Robert Carsen’s abstract revival of Verdi’s opera feels like a work-in-progress of a dauntingly all-too-topical show Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and academic, and former ...
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 ...
Youthful, graceful, and very competent, with a cast of top singers, Maestro Vincenzo Milletari took the audience to ancient Egypt and its unique rituals and customs. Every year, the Israeli ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...