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 never wastes a note or a moment in propelling the drama or establishing location. Through specific combinations of instruments and musical modes, he evokes the Egyptian atmospheres. Silken ...

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(You know how critics are!) It incorporates some of Verdi’s most memorable music, including such arias as “ Celeste Aida,” “ Ritorno vincitor ” and “ O patria mia,” as well as the aforementioned ...

"It can be said to represent the pinnacle of the performing arts." (Soprano Lim Segyeong) At the production presentation for "Aida" by the Seoul Opera Company, held at Sejong Center for the Performing ...

The meatiest Italian-opera roles, such as the slave Aida or the priestess Norma, are so demanding the singers who can master them are rare. But Liudmyla Monastyrska has the elusive combination of ...

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 ...

ered in a habitat that’s unusually elegant -- the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. The herd awaited its cue from a stage manager directing traffic at a Los Angeles Opera rehearsal for “Aida,” the grandest ...