Premiered in Cairo 150 years ago, set in an exoticised ancient Egypt and written by a man who refused to visit the country for fear of ‘being mummified’, the beloved opera has left a complex legacy in ...

'When Margaret Thatcher was on Desert Island Discs, the only piece of classical music she chose was the Triumphal March," director David McVicar says, referring to the familiar music for the Egyptian ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Despite the promise of his name, Italian citizen Prospero Bertani was ...

Terrance McKnight: This is Every Voice with Terrance McKnight on WQXR. It’s a radio special that looks at the representations of blackness in Verdi’s opera Aida. Growing up I played two instruments, ...

It’s fair to say that Verdi was playing hard to get when it came to his grand opera Aida. He was being pursued seemingly constantly by Ismail Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt and Sudan, to write for ...

The Cape Town Opera’s production of Giuseppe Verdi’s classic opera Aida, now on at the Artscape Theatre until 31 May, receives a dramatic, modern spin, even as it stays faithful to the music and story ...

Dutch director Lotte de Beer creates a new take on Verdi’s famous opera by using puppets and by taking a critical look at Europe’s 19th-century history during colonization. Some operas are as ...

One of the most popular operatic works performed in Egypt, Verdi's Aida, is currently on stage at the Cairo Opera House Opera Aida opened on Monday at the Cairo Opera House's Main Hall and will run ...

Set in Memphis and Thebes during the time of the pharaohs, the story centres on a love affair between Aida, an Ethiopian slave owned by Amneris, the pharaoh’s daughter, and Radamès, a captain in the ...

Early recordings of Franco Zeffirelli's 2006 production of Verdi's opera which saw Roberto Alagna's high-profile exit during the second performance. Egypt and Ethiopia are at war. Radames is appointed ...