Many see Aida as the grandest of all grand operas. Set by Verdi in the kingdom of ancient Egypt around 2,500 BC, the setting is changed by Carsen into an unspecified military dictatorship in ...

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts. Show more Fom the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Verdi’s monumental tragedy of forbidden love in ancient Egypt. Aida is an Ethiopian princess held captive in ...

A REHEARSAL this week of Verdi’s Otello at the Israeli Opera. (photo credit: YOSSI ZWECKER) Otello, the Italian operatic adaptation by composer Giuseppe Verdi and librettist Arrigo Boito of the ...