An upcoming festival devoted to Czech and Slovak opera performers will take place at venues across the Czech capital.

By Javier C. Hernández Photographs and Video by OK McCausland When the director Michael Mayer set out to stage Verdi’s “Aida” at the Metropolitan Opera, he knew the stakes were high.

Take your vitamins, folks. There’s something going around. The first indicator was the audience Tuesday night at the Metropolitan Opera, which welcomed the new year with the premiere of Michael ...

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The onstage menagerie has been vanishing. On Tuesday, the company rang in the new year with a new version of Verdi’s Pharaonic classic “Aida” starring the shining soprano Angel Blue ...

Mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi, following her 2024 debut in Verdi’s La Forza del Destino, is Aida’s Egyptian rival Amneris, sharing the role with Elīna Garanča, who returns to the Met for ...

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In the center, a rope came down and with it an archeologist. As he reached the bottom to get off the rope, he fell to the ground, the sound of his body crashing over the delicate violins that opened ...

At the end of the day, I am enough. Aida Rodriguez is a comedian, writer, actor, and author — a favorite of critics and fans alike. Rodriguez's comedy special "Fighting Words" is streaming on ...

Angel Blue in the title role and Piotr Beczała as Radamès in Verdi’s Aida at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera As the fedora-hatted archaeologist was lowered into the Egyptian ...

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