When Leah Crocetto talks about the title role of Verdi’s “Aida,” it’s as if she’s describing a summit, a mountaintop that only Olympians aspire to climb. “I still can’t believe it,” Crocetto remarked ...

CHICAGO—When the Suez Canal opened in 1869, it shortened the route between Europe and India, changing the world overnight. Consequently, the Egyptian capital of Cairo became very important. Italian ...

London is set host the biggest opera production it's seen this century, as a groundbreaking performance of Verdi's AIDA plays three performances at the OVO Arena Wembley in March 2024. The arena will ...

Terrance McKnight: This is Every Voice with Terrance McKnight on WQXR. It’s a radio special that looks at the representations of blackness in Verdi’s opera Aida. Growing up I played two instruments, ...

The artist is bringing her brooding anti-war production of Verdi to Barcelona’s Liceu, with Russian soprano Anna Netrebko in ...

On the season-opening revival of Verdi’s Aida, at Washington National Opera. “I may have revealed strategic information,” admits Radamès, the hapless soldier in the Washington National Opera’s ...

Terrance McKnight: This is Every Voice with Terrance McKnight. It’s still a new podcast from WQXR, we’ve done ten episodes where we interrogate the culture of our classical music scene and we look at ...

3 Full Cast Set For MAYBE HAPPY ENDING North American Tour With concert opera an annual event for the Symphony, history promises that this production will be highly popular, and like its predecessors, ...

When Markus Hinterhäuser, the artistic director of the Salzburg Festival approached the Persian, New York-based artist Shirin Neshat to direct a version of Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida, the artist was ...

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