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, ...

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 ...