The Finnish National Opera and Ballet has announced its 2026–2027 season, featuring a mix of new productions and returning repertoire across opera and ballet.

Now looming large at our own Virginia Opera, “Aida” is grand opera with an equally monumental history: in its origins, its past performances and its theatrical punch. This particular “Aida” is large ...

Telling a story of star-crossed lovers during the Old Kingdom of Egypt, Virginia Opera’s “Aida” is ready for Richmond. Virginia Opera is well aware of Timothée Chalamet’s recent comments about the art ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Through countless hours of practice and prep work, Virginia Opera got ready to show Aida. Then the COVID pandemic happened, ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Through countless hours of practice and prep work, Virginia Opera got ready to show Aida. Then the COVID pandemic happened, shutting it down in March 2020. Six years later, they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Through countless hours of practice and prep work, Virginia Opera got ready to show Aida. Then the COVID ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Singers Deborah Nansteel and Grant Youngblood join Coast Live to discuss Virginia Opera's production of "Aida," bringing the timeless Egyptian tragic romance to life with a stunning ...

Giuseppe Verdi’s “Aida,” set in ancient Egypt, has a reputation for being the grandest of grand operas. How grand, you ask? Well, some productions feature a parade of live elephants. Historians debate ...

With a fat $150,000 to spend on La Scala’s new production of Aïda, Director Franco Zeffirelli soared off into Cinerama dreams of Oriental glory. Unabashed by what his fine Italian hand had done to the ...

Opera has long been reinventing itself with innovations including supertitles (1983) so audiences could translate the foreign language they were hearing and video projections (around 2018) that ...