NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Some of the company’s productions, like the recently opened “Aida,” require over a hundred additional actors. On opening night, I joined them. Credit...Actors from a variety of ...

After more than 260 performances, the Metropolitan Opera this week retired its "Aida" staging, phasing out one of the company's last remaining holdovers from the last century. The production, which ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — Last spring at the Metropolitan Opera, the soprano Anna Netrebko took on the title role of Puccini’s “Tosca” for the first time. She claimed that touchstone part for her own, and put her ...

For its “new” production of Aida this fall, the Paris Opera imported one from the 2017 Salzburg Festival, a choice that will have surprised many who saw it there. The production by the accomplished ...

The Triumphal Scene in Robert Carsen's production of 'Aida'All images by Tristram Kenton Conductor and Royal Opera Music Director Antonio Pappano has obviously worked in depth with Italian tenor ...

A timeless story of love and betrayal against the backdrop of war, a livestream of the opera, “Aida,” performed by the Metropolitan Opera will be shown Jan. 25 at the O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The great festive opera of Aida is being performed as a celebration ...

With no Schiller or Shakespeare as base, only the Egyptians and international dignitaries to please for the opening of the Cairo Opera House, Verdi’s librettist Ghislanzoni and scenario deviser ...