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 ...

You know you’re in trouble when a grand new production of Verdi’s “Aida” only catches fire midway through the second act, after the “Triumphal March”—when Amonasro shows up.

The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Aida remains a thoroughly traditional ... who loves and who dies. Verdi’s triumph scene becomes a May Day military parade. Radames’s trial is ...