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With its brass bludgeon of a triumphal march, its two-story tomb scene and its temple rendezvous, Verdi wrote the book on grand opera when he composed "Aida." It's impossible to get too grand with it.

Saturday's concert version of "Aida" by the Greater Bridgeport Symphony pared Giuseppe Verdi's monumental four-hour opera to two hours, but that didn't dampen any of the opera's dramatic intensity at ...

The success of Thursday night's opening performance of Verdi's "Aida" at the San Francisco Opera was all the more gratifying for being more or less unexpected. Sure, hope springs eternal and all that.

"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 ...

Giuseppe Verdi’s “Aida” tempts audiences to succumb to spectacle but draws its enduring power from emotions that burn hotter than any ceremonial bonfire. The opera’s 1871 premiere in Cairo brought 12 ...