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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 ...

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 ...

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.

Cairo Opera House chose Egyptian composer Omar Khairat and the Triumphal March of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Aida to be performed during the celebrations of the new Suez Canal. The cultural segment of the ...

The project has been underway for nearly 30 years. It comes to spectacular fruition this weekend. Saturday, the Sarasota Opera premiered "Aida." When when the final curtain closed, the Sarasota Opera ...