COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Two topiary elephants greet visitors as they stroll up the lawn toward the Alice Busch Opera Theater for this year’s Glimmerglass Festival. The creatures, made of grapevine ...

No scene in the operatic repertoire is more synonymous with visual spectacle than the Act II finale of Verdi’s “Aida.” To convey the grandeur of the Egyptian army’s triumphant return, the stage ...

Verdi is having a run of bad luck. He has to revise for an exam on the history of music just when he is suffering from headaches and possibly an attack of hypochondria. As if this were not enough, he ...

Verdi’s Aida has, for more than a century, held a reputation as the definitive grandiose opera spectacle, fit with camels and elephants (no animals at the Lyric though, only a cast of marvelous human ...

When it comes to grand opera, it doesn’t get any bigger, or grander, than “Aida,” Verdi’s tragic love story of a captive Ethiopian princess (Aida) and an Egyptian general (Radames) set in Egypt at the ...

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The set-up: In the 1860s, the Khedive of Egypt was spending his country’s treasury like a drunken pharaoh. Heavily influenced by the West, he wanted to bring medieval Egypt up to speed, so he began an ...

Elephants, Egyptian palaces, politics and love triangles — now we're talking grand opera! In an art form notorious for its excesses, Verdi's Aida can take the bigger-is-better approach to nearly ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2018-19 Live in HD series begins Saturday, Oct. 6, with “Aida” by Giuseppe Verdi. This season’s lineup offers something for everyone: an array of well-known and lesser-known ...