Premiered in Cairo 150 years ago, set in an exoticised ancient Egypt and written by a man who refused to visit the country for fear of ‘being mummified’, the beloved opera has left a complex legacy in ...

'When Margaret Thatcher was on Desert Island Discs, the only piece of classical music she chose was the Triumphal March," director David McVicar says, referring to the familiar music for the Egyptian ...

Eine wunderbare Aufführung gelang dem Theater Sankt Gallen (Schweiz) mit Verdis „Aida“ zur Eröffnung der St. Galler Festspiele. Die Inszenierung war klug, die Gesangsdarbietungen großartig, das Orches ...

Aida is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in Egypt, it was commissioned by and first performed at Cairo's Khedivial Opera House on December 24, ...

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, ...

The Cape Town Opera’s production of Giuseppe Verdi’s classic opera Aida, now on at the Artscape Theatre until 31 May, receives a dramatic, modern spin, even as it stays faithful to the music and story ...

It’s fair to say that Verdi was playing hard to get when it came to his grand opera Aida. He was being pursued seemingly constantly by Ismail Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt and Sudan, to write for ...

London is set host the biggest opera production it's seen this century, as a groundbreaking performance of Verdi's AIDA plays three performances at the OVO Arena Wembley in March 2024. The arena will ...

Dutch director Lotte de Beer creates a new take on Verdi’s famous opera by using puppets and by taking a critical look at Europe’s 19th-century history during colonization. Some operas are as ...

Set in Memphis and Thebes during the time of the pharaohs, the story centres on a love affair between Aida, an Ethiopian slave owned by Amneris, the pharaoh’s daughter, and Radamès, a captain in the ...