Tune in tonight at 8pm to hear Verdi's Aida staring Birgit Nilsson and Franco Corelli. Zubin Mehta conducts this 1967 studio recording.

Aida is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in Egypt, it was commissioned by and first performed at Cairo's Khedivial Opera House on December ...

Happy 200th birthday, Giuseppe Verdi 11:07. This week on 60 Minutes, composer Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" was spotlighted in a story about the Metropolitan Opera, and it couldn't have ...

Review: SFO's production of Giuseppe Verdi's 'Aida,' tries too hard to be a spectacle-plus! Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 64°F. Sunday, June 15th 2025 Today's e-Edition.

Giuseppe Verdi, composer of Nabucco, La Traviata and Aida, was an inspired tunesmith who took the operatic world by storm with a stream of hit titles. 'Celeste Aida' in a stunning new recording from ...

'There is only AIDA that is like AIDA.' From epic choral scenes to intimate duets, Music Director Enrique Mazzola shares why Giuseppe Verdi's opera is unlike any other. See the Maestro conduct his ...

This Saturday at Grass Valley’s Del Oro Theatre, the war horse wagon keeps rolling on as Sierra Theaters presents Giuseppe Verdi’s “Aida” as the latest offering of The Met Opera Live in HD. Some ...

In addition to composing what probably should now be called the original Aida, Giuseppe Verdi wrote 25 operas, many of which are as popular today as when he died in Milan in January 1901 at 87. He ...

When George Gershwin died in 1937, friend and novelist John O'Hara remarked: "I don't have to believe it if I don't want to." Giuseppe Verdi died exactly a century ago, and I feel pretty much as O ...