When Asa Irwin was growing up in Seattle, she knew talented black singers who performed in churches and sang in competitions. But “you never actually saw people of color performing in the major venues ...

Arizona Opera has mounted Verdi's masterpiece "Aida" just three times in the company's 40-year history - most recently in 1998-99 - but probably never like this before. The stage will be crammed with ...

It was only after he had made his debut with the Metropolitan Opera, performing the role of Radames in “Aida,” that Limmie Pulliam learned he had just made history. Pulliam, who had been hired as a ...

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 ...

“Aida” may well be the grandest of the grand operas, but it needs inspired staging and exceptional voices in order to make Verdi’s masterpiece shine. Seattle Opera’s current “Aida” does just that.

NEW YORK — Sonja Frisell was a 9-year-old growing up in England when she saw still photos of “Caesar and Cleopatra,” a 1945 movie starring Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains. “My mother wouldn’t take me to ...

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That approach was also used for their Turandot two years ago, and now method and team are reunited as Sir Richard Armstrong conducts Aida with Annabel Arden as director and design by Joanna Parker.