For the first time in more than a decade, Verdi’s romantic and political drama Aida returns to Lyric Opera of Chicago, March 9 to April 7, 2024. See photos from the production below. Music Director ...

Washington National Opera (WNO) opens its 2017-2018 season with a new production of Verdi's grand Egyptian epic Aida, September 9-23, 2017, in the Kennedy Center Opera House. In this majestically ...

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Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Michael Mayer is directing the Met’s first new production of Verdi’s classic in nearly four decades, aiming for something fresh yet enduring. By ...

Youthful, graceful, and very competent, with a cast of top singers, Maestro Vincenzo Milletari took the audience to ancient Egypt and its unique rituals and customs. Every year, the Israeli ...

Now looming large at our own Virginia Opera, “Aida” is grand opera with an equally monumental history: in its origins, its past performances and its theatrical punch. This particular “Aida” is large ...

One can see the Washington National Opera’s point in choosing its Aida for the upcoming “Opera in the Outfield,” the company’s invitation to any and all to give opera a try via the big screen at ...

With its teeming crowd scenes and massive set pieces, it’s easy to forget that “Aida” is about four individuals struggling to meet the demands of duty and desire. The new San Francisco Opera ...

“Aida” may well be the grandest of the grand operas, but it needs inspired staging and exceptional voices in order to make Verdi’s masterpiece shine. Seattle Opera’s current “Aida” does just that.

A little minuet in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, a hip-swinging processional in Verdi’s Aida, a ballroom waltz in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin — until fairly recently, that, generally speaking, was ...