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 ...
Jul. 25—Nancy Farrand stumbled onto the stage at Portland's Merrill Auditorium. She had walked hundreds of miles as a captive of war and had arrived in Egypt to meet an uncertain fate. Hunched and ...
Editor’s note: This is the first in a three-part series of reported commentaries on the future of opera. NEW YORK — It’s a big house. The Metropolitan Opera seats nearly 4,000 people up into its fifth ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Michael Mayer is directing the Met’s first new production of Verdi’s classic in nearly four decades, aiming for something fresh yet enduring. By ...
Starring Angel Blue and Piotr Beczała, Michael Mayer’s new staging of Verdi’s Egyptian classic favors monumentality at nearly every turn, but it struggles to come to fiery dramatic or musical life.
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Witness one of opera’s most epic stories of passion, betrayal, and war. Behold the tragic romance of Aida, an Ethiopian princess enslaved by the Egyptians, and Radamès, an Egyptian general who must ...
Late in the afternoon on Nov. 10, lights began to dim as a packed audience eagerly waited at the Emerson Colonial Theatre. The Boston Lyric Opera’s staging of the classic opera “Aida,” with music by ...