“I’m like, ‘Okay, God, is this what you want me to do?’ Because I’m having so much fun,” singer/actress Michelle Williams told The American back in 2011. At the time she was preparing to debut her ...

No scene in the operatic repertoire is more synonymous with visual spectacle than the Act II finale of Verdi’s “Aida.” To convey the grandeur of the Egyptian army’s triumphant return, the stage ...

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 ...

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 ...