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With new 'Aida' staging, Met tries out grandiose opera for the contemporary age
"Aida" has long epitomized opera at its most extravagant -- think sweeping sets, luxurious costumes and even real-live horses ...
The New Yorker2d
The Met’s New Aida Visits the Other Met
The soprano Angel Blue, the star of the new production of Verdi’s ancient-Egypt spectacle, goes to the Temple of Dendur, ...
Met Opera’s Lindsay Ohse steps into the glass slipper of ‘Cendrillon’
Met Opera soprano and Grammy winner Lindsay Ohse will play the hopeful Cinderella in Opera Orlando’s next production, ...
The Washington Post28d
At the Met, a troubled new ‘Aida’ struggles to rediscover itself
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 Mayer’s new production of ...
The New York Times6d
Angel Blue Doubted Her Path in Opera. Now She’s a Star.
By Javier C. Hernández Moments before she went onstage in “Aida” at the Metropolitan Opera on a recent night, the soprano Angel Blue was in her dressing room, smiling and blowing kisses on a ...
The New York Times29d
Review: The Met’s New ‘Aida’ Stages Spectacle Without Horses
By Zachary Woolfe For a long time, people went to the Metropolitan Opera for the horses. They looked to the Met, the country’s largest performing arts institution, for the kind of gaudily ...
Berkshire Eagle7d
Critic's notebook: At the Metropolitan Opera, an 'Aida' production rooted in the past says a lot about the genre's future
NEW YORK — It’s a big house. The Metropolitan Opera seats nearly 4,000 people up into its fifth balcony. It spends $300 million-plus a year, according to The New York Times. This season, it will ...
BroadwayWorld28d
Review Roundup: AIDA Directed by Michael Mayer at the Metropolitan Opera
Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Soprano Angel Blue is making her long ...