Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts. Show more Fom the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Verdi’s monumental tragedy of forbidden love in ancient Egypt. Aida is an Ethiopian princess held captive in ...

Many see Aida as the grandest of all grand operas. Set by Verdi in the kingdom of ancient Egypt around 2,500 BC, the setting is changed by Carsen into an unspecified military dictatorship in ...

Anna Pirozzi and Raehann Bryce-Davis shine in Robert Carsen and Daniel Oren’s spectacular version of Verdi's opera blending human passion and military precision ...

The Metropolitan Opera opened the New Year with its first new staging of Verdi’s Aida in 37 years. Regulars had every right ... Scotland to a present-day rundown town in Pennsylvania, complete with ...

You know you’re in trouble when a grand new production of Verdi’s “Aida” only catches fire ... moments like the “Triumphal March” (complete with costumed trumpeters in the boxes ...

Verdi was commissioned by the Khedive (Viceroy) of Egypt to write a piece for the new opera house in Cairo. He requested a fee of $20,000, an enormous amount in those days, and received it without a ...

Verdi's Aida live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York ...

Angel Blue, soprano superstar and Los Angeles native, stars in the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Verdi’s Aida, streaming Live in HD to cinemas around the world on Saturday ...

THE Regal Picturehouse in Borama Way is showing A Complete Unknown (15), A Real Pain (15), Conclave (12A) and Maria (12A) this week. Also being screened are the Met Opera live and encore recordings of ...