The first indicator was the audience Tuesday night at the Metropolitan Opera, which welcomed the new year with the premiere of Michael Mayer’s new production of Giuseppe Verdi’s “Aida ...

Christina Nilsson sings an excerpt from the title character’s Act III aria in a recent performance of Michael Mayer's production of AIDA. The orchestra is conducted by Alexander Soddy.

There are fewer settings more grand, more exotic, more regal and opulent than ancient Egypt. So when Giuseppe Verdi, one of ...

"Because Aida is so big and so expensive ... for the art -- and the bottom line of institutions like the Met. "The future of the opera in America is really in the hands of the young people ...

Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer brings a new production of Verdi’s grand masterpiece Aida ... Met role debut as the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country, one of opera ...

Nilsson may be the most demure Aida ever to grace the Met stage. Her simple sheath instantly marks her as an outsider, but her regal bearing is that of a princess. Simplicity was Nilsson’s trump card, ...

WPI professor Lucy Caplan explores how Black artists helped transform opera in new book "Dreaming in Ensemble." ...

Aida has long epitomised opera at its most extravagant - think sweeping ... A beloved version of that scale helmed the Met for more than three decades - so staging a new production of Aida ...