Italian tenor Riccardo Massi has rapidly achieved international recognition as one of the most exciting and accomplished ...
Daniel Oren conducts Verdi’s monumental score, with Anna Pirozzi as Aida, Riccardo Massi as Radames, Ekaterina Semenchuk as Amneris and Amartuvshin Enkhbat as Amonasro. An Egyptian Opera? ‘Cyprus; ...
Jonas Kaufmann will make his Hong Kong debut this February alongside the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. This concert ...
Pairing of two Greek myths by Deborah Warner and Kim Brandstrup is physically and emotionally powerful, with strong ...
BY STEVE MARTINDALE For Salt Spring Film Festival Society The Salt Spring Film Festival’s Best of the Fests series at ...
On a whim 25 years ago, Guyana native Jonnet Solomon purchased the building that once housed the National Negro Opera Company ...
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The Royal Opera - Aida
Last night was the opening of the second revival of Robert Carsen’s production of Verdi’s four-act opera Aida for the Royal Opera. This grandest of grand operas is set in ancient Egypt and ...
Don’t miss your chance to see “Aida,” Verdi’s epic tale of love, power and jealousy at Orcas Center on Tuesday, Feb. 4, at noon. Filmed live in high definition, these on-screen events from the ...
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 ...
In Verdi’s opera, the conflict between Egypt and Ethiopia is the underlying context for a tussle of love between Aida, the prisoner ... begs the King to set them free, there is talk of the ...
But this is (and Aida always will be) an opera about spectacle as much as music, and the chorus is key to that. Not only does William Spaulding have them parade with er… military precision ...