Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer brings a new production of Verdi’s grand masterpiece Aida to the Met next month. Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Alexander Soddy conduct. Performances run March 14 - ...
Through countless hours of practice and prep work, Virginia Opera got ready to show Aida. Then the COVID pandemic happened, shutting it down in March 2020. Six years later, they are finally bringing ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Michael Mayer is directing the Met’s first new production of Verdi’s classic in nearly four decades, aiming for something fresh yet enduring. By ...
Christina Nilsson sings an excerpt from the title character’s Act III aria in a recent performance of Michael Mayer's production of AIDA. The orchestra is conducted by Alexander Soddy. Videography by ...
What makes a “grand opera” grand? Well, in part, it’s the sheer number of artists involved, reviewer Page Laws says.
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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 ...
Take your vitamins, folks. There’s something going around. The first indicator was the audience Tuesday night at the Metropolitan Opera, which welcomed the new year with the premiere of Michael ...
Aida may be an opera-by-numbers, lurching between sclerotic clunk and clunking sclerosis, but it does contain some scene-stealing moments Coursing through this new-found aesthetic coherence were ...
Every year, the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra highlights its season with a full opera in concert form to the delight of its audience. This year’s selection, Aida, was slated to be conducted by the ...
Late in the afternoon on Nov. 10, lights began to dim as a packed audience eagerly waited at the Emerson Colonial Theatre. The Boston Lyric Opera’s staging of the classic opera “Aida,” with music by ...