When opera's biggest spectacle opens Friday in Keller Auditorium, armies will clash, victors will parade and a tragic love triangle will bloom among the pyramids. "Aida" has been a hit since ...

On the season-opening revival of Verdi’s Aida, at Washington National Opera. “I may have revealed strategic information,” admits Radamès, the hapless soldier in the Washington National Opera’s ...

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 ...

The overture begins with soft and almost wistful strings creating an atmosphere of tentative beauty, like a mist entering as the sun rises—a subtle, dark, and pensive beginning to an opera not ...

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 ...