Although I focus a lot on world music and jazz, I’ve always loved opera and art song. I saw the great German-British soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf sing at the Hollywood Bowl in the late ’60s. On a ...

The fall opera season begins when Opera Colorado presents Verdi’s Aida at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House on Saturday, November 7, and if you aren’t waiting with bated breath, you should be. There’s ...

The small but remarkably fine Union Avenue Opera Company continues its thirtieth season with a production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Aïda (“in concert”). This opera was commissioned by the Khedive of Egypt ...

With its teeming crowd scenes and massive set pieces, it’s easy to forget that “Aida” is about four individuals struggling to meet the demands of duty and desire. The new San Francisco Opera ...

Terrance McKnight: This is Every Voice with Terrance McKnight. It’s still a new podcast from WQXR, we’ve done ten episodes where we interrogate the culture of our classical music scene and we look at ...