Capital Public Radio

At The Opera, Verdi: Aida, May 21, 2016

Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Aida is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in ...
BroadwayWorld

Metropolitan Opera Announces Cast Change For AIDA This May

Earlier this season at the Met, Meade stepped in to sing the title role of Bellini's Norma and also starred as Elisabetta di Valois in Verdi's Don Carlo. Other highlights at the house include her ...
Capital Public Radio

At The Opera, Verdi: Aida, June 16, 2018

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, ...
Bradenton Herald

'Aida' completes the Verdi cycle for Sarasota Opera

The project has been underway for nearly 30 years. It comes to spectacular fruition this weekend. Saturday, the Sarasota Opera premiered "Aida." When when the final curtain closed, the Sarasota Opera ...
SFGate

An ersatz 'Aida' / John's musical doesn't measure up to Verdi's opera

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 ...
The New York Times

Review: The Met’s New ‘Aida’ Stages Spectacle Without Horses

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, ...
Pensacola News Journal

Front Row: Pensacola Opera takes 'Aida' to new heights

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 ...
Newsday

Sonja Frisell's lavish staging of Verdi's 'Aida' ends its 35-year-run at the Metropolitan Opera

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 ...
Los Angeles Times

Disappointed ‘Aida’ viewer demands (and gets) refund from Verdi

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Despite the promise of his name, Italian citizen Prospero Bertani was ...
fox17online

Opera Grand Rapids to perform 'Aida' at DeVos Performance Hall in May

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Opera Grand Rapids has announced that one of its next productions will be Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida. The opera will be performed at the DeVos Performance Hall on May 5 and 7. The ...
The Stanford Daily

Stanford collects only surviving score from 1876 performance of Verdi’s opera Aida

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 ...