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; ...

Verdi was commissioned by the Khedive (Viceroy) of Egypt to write a piece for the new opera house in Cairo. He requested a fee of $20,000, an enormous amount in those days, and received it without a ...

The last act of which the composer of Aida and Don Carlos, Rigoletto and Otello seems to have been conscious was buttoning up his waistcoat. Giuseppe Verdi spent his last Christmas and saw in his last ...

The annual national March for Life is scheduled for this Friday, capping off a very busy week for Washington, D.C. The March for Life originally started on Jan. 22, 1974, the first anniversary of ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Riccardo Muti led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in a program that featured Verdi’s “Four Seasons” and ...

Get ready for a deep partial solar eclipse on March 29, 2025, which will occur at sunrise in North America and mid-morning across Europe. On Saturday, March 29, 2025, a deep partial solar eclipse ...

This is a recurring post, regularly updated with new information. March might just be the Goldilocks of travel months. It's not too cold. It's not too hot. It's that "just right" sweet spot where ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Ahead of President elect-Donald Trump’s second inauguration, thousands of people rallied in Washington, D.C., on Saturday at the People’s March to oppose his policies on immigration ...

Strehler died in 1997. Now, near the start of a season packed with new productions, the Milan theatre has revived his 1980 staging of Falstaff, Verdi’s last opera and a crowning achievement of ...

The rally, going by the People's March, was a rebrand of the 2017 Women's March, which saw more than 500,000 marchers take to the streets of DC at the start of Mr Trump's first administration ...

Young and old gathered for the march to the State Capitol in St. Paul, one of hundreds of similar rallies held in Minnesota and the U.S. under the People’s March banner. Some of the marchers ...