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The Royal Opera - Aida
Last night was the opening of the second revival of Robert Carsen’s production of Verdi’s four-act opera Aida for the Royal ... ones featuring pyramids, elephants and the iconography of ...
Many see Aida as the grandest of all grand operas. Set by Verdi in the kingdom of ancient ... been extravagantly staged with pyramids and/or elephants, is turned into a theatrical display of ...
There are fewer settings more grand, more exotic, more regal and opulent than ancient Egypt. So when Giuseppe Verdi, one of ...