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 ...

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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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Verdi: ”Aida” (Aprile Millo, Placido Domingo, Dolora Zajick, James Morris and Samuel Ramey, singers; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, James Levine conducting; Sony Classical, 3-CD set).

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – "Aida," Giuseppe Verdi's grand opera of Ancient Egypt, returns to local movie theaters in a live broadcast on Saturday from New York City's Metropolitan Opera. Renee Fleming hosts ...

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