Get a first listen to the beginning of Act One, where Verdi gives Radamès (sung here by Lyric favorite Russell Thomas) one of the most challenging and iconic tenor arias in the repertoire — "Celeste ...

For years great divas have smeared their ample bodies with cocoa-colored grease paint or pancake make-up to sing Aïda, Giuseppe Verdi’s Ethiopian princess. This week, an Aïda didn’t have to bother. In ...

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 ...

Reginald Smith Jr., fresh from playing (older) Emile in Terence Blanchard’s opera “Champion,” is having a formidable 2024 on the Lyric Opera stage. In the role of Amonasro, King of Ethiopia, the ...

How to choose between love for an enemy general and love for one’s homeland? Such is the dilemma faced by Aida, an Ethiopian princess enslaved in Egypt, who also has to contend with the rivalry of ...

In March 2011 I lamented to readers that I had never experienced a stage production of “Aida.” The Broadway treatment bills it as “the Tony Award-winning international hit musical,” which was first ...

Enrico Caruso. Celesta Aida (Victor 91007). 78 rpm. single-faced record. There is a typed label: While 'dated' from the modern point of view, this record marked a major development in the history of ...