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 ...

Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer brings a new production of Verdi’s grand masterpiece Aida to the Met next month. Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Alexander Soddy conduct. Performances run March 14 - ...

Angel Blue makes her highly anticipated Met role debut as Aida, the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium of Michael Mayer’s ...

Music Director Yannick Nezet-Seguin and the Met orchestra did the composer proud, as did the Met chorus under Donald Palumbo. AIDA will be shown on January 25 at 12:30pm ET at cinemas worldwide as ...

Starring Angel Blue and Piotr Beczała, Michael Mayer’s new staging of Verdi’s Egyptian classic favors monumentality at nearly every turn, but it struggles to come to fiery dramatic or musical life.

The well-worn, well-loved show will play just twice more, on March 4 and 7 (numbers 252 and 253). Then its weathered hieroglyphics, its applause-garnering live horses, its looming walls of craggy ...

How else can one explain his mystifying concept of framing an engrossing opera of love, war and death in ancient Egypt with the explorations of a silent band of early 20th-century archaeologists?

Soprano superstar Angel Blue is a making musical history in the New York Metropolitan Opera House’s production of “Aida.” TODAY's Al Roker sits down with Blue and learns about her journey to one of ...

A timeless story of love and betrayal against the backdrop of war, a livestream of the opera, “Aida,” performed by the Metropolitan Opera will be shown Jan. 25 at the O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover travel trends and wellness and family travel. In addition to her long-awaited Met role debut as the Ethiopian princess, ...