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 ...

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 ...

Given the world’s small number of first-rate Verdi singers, it comes as no surprise that tenor Arnold Rawls and bass Morris Robinson should cross paths—often amid the massive, gilded pageantry of the ...

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 ...

“Aida” may well be the grandest of the grand operas, but it needs inspired staging and exceptional voices in order to make Verdi’s masterpiece shine. Seattle Opera’s current “Aida” does just that.

Aida, the tragic opera which was first performed in 1871, is finally making a comeback to British stages. The Italian performance will be hitting London on Saturday, March 23 and Sunday, March 24 next ...