Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. For the first time in more than a decade, Verdi’s romantic and political drama ...

With its brass bludgeon of a triumphal march, its two-story tomb scene and its temple rendezvous, Verdi wrote the book on grand opera when he composed "Aida." It's impossible to get too grand with it.

Saturday's concert version of "Aida" by the Greater Bridgeport Symphony pared Giuseppe Verdi's monumental four-hour opera to two hours, but that didn't dampen any of the opera's dramatic intensity at ...

Aida’s father, Amonasro, the king of Ethiopia, put Aida up to wheedling that information out of the Egyptian general, and has positioned himself to overhear the revelation. His moment of triumph, ...

Verdi never wastes a note or a moment in propelling the drama or establishing location. Through specific combinations of instruments and musical modes, he evokes the Egyptian atmospheres. Silken ...

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One attraction of the new Aida was Saioa Hernández, a Spanish soprano rarely seen in American productions, in the title role. Montserrat Caballé once hailed this compatriot as “the diva of our century ...

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The meatiest Italian-opera roles, such as the slave Aida or the priestess Norma, are so demanding the singers who can master them are rare. But Liudmyla Monastyrska has the elusive combination of ...

ered in a habitat that’s unusually elegant -- the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. The herd awaited its cue from a stage manager directing traffic at a Los Angeles Opera rehearsal for “Aida,” the grandest ...

To clear up any lingering confusion, the "Aida" with music by Elton John and lyrics by Tim Rice that is playing at the Orpheum Theatre is not exactly the "Aida" by Giuseppe Verdi that was performed at ...