Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Michael Mayer is directing the Met’s first new production of Verdi’s classic in nearly four decades, aiming for something fresh yet enduring. By ...
My Darlin’ Aida (music by Giuseppe Verdi; book & lyrics by Charles Friedman) shifts its scene from the Memphis, Egypt of Aida to Memphis, Tenn. in 1861. Aida, Amneris and Radames of Verdi’s opera ...
“There is no opera in America worth speaking of outside New York City,” said the Metropolitan Opera’s Rudolf Bing not long ago. When the statement touched off explosions of operatic temper from one ...