following her 2024 debut in Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino,” is Aida’s Egyptian rival Amneris, and tenor Piotr Beczała is the soldier Radamès — completing opera’s greatest love triangle.
There are fewer settings more grand, more exotic, more regal and opulent than ancient Egypt. So when Giuseppe Verdi, one of ...
Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer brings a new production of Verdi’s grand masterpiece Aida to the Met next ... between love and country, one of opera’s defining roles.
Soprano superstar Angel Blue is a making musical history in the New York Metropolitan Opera House’s production of “Aida.” ...
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 ...
The Met's unforgettable production of Verdi's ancient Egyptian drama stars Liudmyla Monastyrska and Hui He. They share the title role of the enslaved Ethiopian princess caught in a love triangle ...
Nilsson may be the most demure Aida ever to grace the Met stage. Her simple sheath instantly marks her as an outsider, but her regal bearing is that of a princess. Simplicity was Nilsson’s trump card, ...
Outstanding Actress in a Musical: Heather Headley was nominated but did not win. 2000 Tony Awards Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical: Heather Headley won.
The opera about a minister traumatized by his ... season’s production of “Carmen,” or “Radames” from Verdi’s “Aida,” which he sang earlier in his career. Starsky, who also appeared ...