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 ...
Now looming large at our own Virginia Opera, “Aida” is grand opera with an equally monumental history: in its origins, its past performances and its theatrical punch. This particular “Aida” is large ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"It can be said to represent the pinnacle of the performing arts." (Soprano Lim Segyeong) At the production presentation for "Aida" by the Seoul Opera Company, held at Sejong Center for the Performing ...
One can see the Washington National Opera’s point in choosing its Aida for the upcoming “Opera in the Outfield,” the company’s invitation to any and all to give opera a try via the big screen at ...
When Asa Irwin was growing up in Seattle, she knew talented black singers who performed in churches and sang in competitions. But “you never actually saw people of color performing in the major venues ...
Late in the afternoon on Nov. 10, lights began to dim as a packed audience eagerly waited at the Emerson Colonial Theatre. The Boston Lyric Opera’s staging of the classic opera “Aida,” with music by ...
Opera doesn’t get any grander than this. In the typical operatic duet, according to George Bernard Shaw, who was a brilliant music critic before he turned to the relatively undemanding trade of ...
an Arabic female name meaning "visitor" or "returning"; a Swahili, female name meaning "reward" is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, based on a ...
Opera Hong Kong’s new Aida offered much to enjoy. It boasted outstanding singing and acting from internationally renowned artists in the leading roles, and the chorus had never sounded better, ...