During “Aida” performances, she often thinks about her father, who died from complications from diabetes at 66, including during the aria “O patria mia,” in which her character laments the ...

The programme features stirring overtures and beloved arias from Rossini, Verdi, Puccini, Strauss II, and Kálmán. From the drama of La Traviata and Aida to the lively charm of Die Fledermaus and ...

Jewellery played an important role in Callas’s turbulent life: not only did her pieces mark certain career milestones, they ...

Their joint assignment: Leonora and Manrico in Verdi’s Il Trovatore ... the house with warm and lustrous sound in her beautiful aria Tacea la notte. With a fine economy of gesture and movement ...

They’ll perform Puccini’s famous masterpiece known for the aria "Senza, mamma," which debuted ... Representative works include Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” Verdi’s “La Traviata,” and “Aida,” and Wagner’s ...

Many see Aida as the grandest of all grand operas. Set by Verdi in the kingdom of ancient Egypt around 2,500 BC, the setting is changed by Carsen into an unspecified military dictatorship in ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Aida remains a thoroughly traditional ... who loves and who dies. Verdi’s triumph scene becomes a May Day military parade. Radames’s trial is ...

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 ...

Jonas Kaufmann will make his Hong Kong debut this February alongside the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. This concert ...

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