BroadwayWorld

AIDA Comes to Paris Opera in September

3 REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents UMA LUZ CORDIAL By Carolina Bianchi and Cara de Cavalo How to choose between love for an enemy general and love for one’s homeland? Such is the dilemma faced ...
The New York Times

‘Aida’ Returns to the Met Opera Through Archaeologists’ Eyes

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Michael Mayer is directing the Met’s first new production of Verdi’s classic in nearly four decades, aiming for something fresh yet enduring. By ...
The Harvard Crimson

‘Aida’ Review: An Intimate Rendition of an Opera Classic

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 ...
BroadwayWorld

Review: AIDA and the Temple of Doom Comes to the Met with Angel Blue

Mayer has already had one failure this season, on Broadway, with “Swept Away,” and did better with the opera’s famed Triumphal March (without any zoo-sized animals to clean up after), than he did with ...
Portland Press Herald

The largest production ever for Opera Maine demanded a stage design to match

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Berkshire Eagle

Critic's notebook: At the Metropolitan Opera, an 'Aida' production rooted in the past says a lot about the genre's future

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 Boston Globe

With a staged concert, BLO takes ‘Aida’ back to basics

No scene in the operatic repertoire is more synonymous with visual spectacle than the Act II finale of Verdi’s “Aida.” To convey the grandeur of the Egyptian army’s triumphant return, the stage ...