NEWBURYPORT — The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season of live Saturday matinee radio broadcasts continues with “Aida,” Verdi’s tragedy of forbidden love in ancient Egypt. Soprano Angel ...

Transplanting a tale of ancient Egypt to a modern-day military dictatorship is a difficult and rather dubious task, but ...

Robert Carsen’s abstract revival of Verdi’s opera feels like a work-in-progress of a dauntingly all-too-topical show ...

The issue of cultural appropriation remains a hot topic in opera. Is it still PC to have Puccini’s Madama Butterfly set in Japan or his Turandot in China? And what is to be done with Verdi’s Aida, a ...

The soprano Angel Blue, the star of the new production of Verdi’s ancient-Egypt spectacle, goes to the Temple of Dendur, ...

The Metropolitan Opera opened the New Year with its first new staging of Verdi’s Aida in 37 years. Regulars had every right to be trepidatious: A few years ago we witnessed Gounod’s Faust drop the ...

Verdi's "Aida" also has long faced criticism of Orientalism, that it offers an exoticized, reductive view of Egypt through an ...