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Terrance McKnight: This is Every Voice with Terrance McKnight on WQXR. It’s a radio special that looks at the representations of blackness in Verdi’s opera Aida. Growing up I played two instruments, ...

Fans of "La traviata," "Aida," and "Otello" creator Giuseppe Verdi met at his statue in New York City Friday to mark 212 years since his birth.

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 ...

When Leah Crocetto talks about the title role of Verdi’s “Aida,” it’s as if she’s describing a summit, a mountaintop that only Olympians aspire to climb. “I still can’t believe it,” Crocetto remarked ...

It’s probably just silly superstition, but some people think Verdi’s Aida is a bad-luck opera. Such thinking is no doubt related to the opera’s subject matter — ancient Egypt, which has long conjured ...

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Verdi: ”Aida” (Aprile Millo, Placido Domingo, Dolora Zajick, James Morris and Samuel Ramey, singers; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, James Levine conducting; Sony Classical, 3-CD set).

From lead to chorus, the performances in Aida are superb, but the production suffers from its more intimate approach and ...

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