Opera Philadelphia and the Penn Museum announced a partnership connecting the museum's newly transformed Egypt Galleries with ...

CHICAGO—When the Suez Canal opened in 1869, it shortened the route between Europe and India, changing the world overnight. Consequently, the Egyptian capital of Cairo became very important. Italian ...

Terrance McKnight: This is Every Voice with Terrance McKnight. It’s still a new podcast from WQXR that interrogates the culture of our classical music scene and we look at ways to make it beautiful ...

Late in the afternoon on Nov. 10, lights began to dim as a packed audience eagerly waited at the Emerson Colonial Theatre. The Boston Lyric Opera’s staging of the classic opera “Aida,” with music by ...

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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 ...

The small but remarkably fine Union Avenue Opera Company continues its thirtieth season with a production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Aïda (“in concert”). This opera was commissioned by the Khedive of Egypt ...

Aida is among the most popular operatic works performed in Egypt, and its history features a series of remarkable performances and events commemorating the opera and the composer. During the opening ...

Ashraf Sewailam’s road to operatic stages throughout the US is inspiring for many Egyptian singers. The renowned bass-baritone talks to Ahram Online about his career and feelings for home Ashraf ...

Aida, the slave girl and heroine of Verdi's opera by the same name, captures the romance and intrigue of today's Egypt, a country steeped in tradition, evolving into the modern world. Aida, the slave ...