Opera Maine will present an original production of Verdi’s Aida at Merrill Auditorium Thursday, July 25 (7:30 p.m.) and Sunday, July 28 (2:30 p.m.). Audiences will be enthralled by the gorgeous music ...
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 ...
Terrance McKnight: This is Every Voice with Terrance McKnight on WQXR. It’s a radio special that looks at the representations of blackness in Verdi’s opera Aida. Growing up I played two instruments, ...
If she has the voice of an angel, and the face of an angel, she must be an Angel. Angel Blue, that is. The American soprano, one of the most admired singers of her generation, is headlining the ...
The $20m Italian production of one of the world’s best-loved operas set to be staged at Adelaide Oval next February has been hit by a logistics nightmare, forcing it to be postponed by a year.
NEW YORK — Sonja Frisell was a 9-year-old growing up in England when she saw still photos of “Caesar and Cleopatra,” a 1945 movie starring Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains. “My mother wouldn’t take me to ...
May 9, 2018 May 9, 2018 Updated Aug 11, 2023 In celebrating 20 years of bringing opera alive to Pikes Peak region audiences, the nonprofit Opera Theatre of the Rockies will stage one of the world's ...
Sometimes you have a revelation at a Saturday morning run-through of a Pensacola Opera production. In this case, the opera, which opens Friday, is Giuseppe Verdi’s epic “Aida.” The revelation was that ...
In addition to composing what probably should now be called the original Aida, Giuseppe Verdi wrote 25 operas, many of which are as popular today as when he died in Milan in January 1901 at 87. He was ...
What is believed to be the earliest surviving full score of the famous Verdi opera Aida currently resides in the Music Library here at Stanford. The 1876 manuscript has been analyzed closely here at ...
Aida is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in Egypt, it was commissioned by and first performed at Cairo's Khedivial Opera House on December 24, ...