What is believed to be the earliest surviving full score of the famous Verdi opera Aida currently resides in the Music Library here at Stanford. The 1876 manuscript has been analyzed closely here at ...

Aida is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in Egypt, it was commissioned by and first performed at Cairo's Khedivial Opera House on December 24, ...

When Aida opened in New York in 2000, the Elton John and Tim Rice adaptation of Verdi’s opera was considered somewhat of a disappointment compared to previous Disney Broadway blockbusters like Beauty ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Cairo Opera House is now broadcasting the Opera Aida. The opera ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Opera should, or can, be a spectacle. It’s what fans have come to expect, especially from big-budget companies such as San Francisco Opera. But it shouldn’t only be a spectacle. And ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by But opening night of the huge production’s final run, shakily cast, presented a show that seemed to be begging to retire. By Zachary Woolfe “I’m not ...

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In the case of Canadian director Robert Carsen's new Aida at Covent Garden, the answers have left me rather confused: He was trying to move the action of the opera from ancient Egypt to a modern ...