Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. For the first time in more than a decade, Verdi’s romantic and political drama ...

With its brass bludgeon of a triumphal march, its two-story tomb scene and its temple rendezvous, Verdi wrote the book on grand opera when he composed "Aida." It's impossible to get too grand with it.

Saturday's concert version of "Aida" by the Greater Bridgeport Symphony pared Giuseppe Verdi's monumental four-hour opera to two hours, but that didn't dampen any of the opera's dramatic intensity at ...

Verdi works well in the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, and the Opera Colorado audience wants more of that composer. And conductor Ari Pelto, who in May was appointed the company’s first ever music ...

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 ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In the hushed cathedral of San Diego's Civic ...

Elephants, Egyptian palaces, politics and love triangles — now we're talking grand opera! In an art form notorious for its excesses, Verdi's Aida can take the bigger-is-better approach to nearly ...

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 success of Thursday night's opening performance of Verdi's "Aida" at the San Francisco Opera was all the more gratifying for being more or less unexpected. Sure, hope springs eternal and all that.

It’s probably just silly superstition, but some people think Verdi’s Aida is a bad-luck opera. Such thinking is no doubt related to the opera’s subject matter — ancient Egypt, which has long conjured ...

In addition to composing what probably should now be called the original Aida, Giuseppe Verdi wrote 25 operas, many of which are as popular today as when he died in Milan in January 1901 at 87. He was ...