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 ...

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

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 ...

It’s a big house, and in Act 2, Scene 2, of its former production of “Aida” by Giuseppe Verdi, a phalanx of Egyptian soldiers descended via massive stage lift from near the very top of it. When they ...

1965 appearance in the title role of Lyric Opera’s production of Verdi’s “Aida.” Five years earlier, she performed the title role for the first time at the Lyric Opera. Chicago Sun-Times ...