What exactly did Renée Fleming mean by calling Giuseppe Verdi’s sword-and-sandal epic an “intimate” opera? Fleming, the American diva, introduced the Metropolitan Opera’s live high-definition ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Because Aida is so big and so expensive... I did definitely feel the pressure of that," director Michael Mayer told AFP in a recent interview of his production that premiered this month, adding that ...