When Robert Carsen’s wilfully, resolutely non-Egyptian staging of Verdi’s Aida was first presented in 2022, its abstract updating to an international zone of conflict, with echoes of military ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Aida remains a thoroughly traditional show beyond some surface novelties, whereas the Royal Opera’s 2022 production dispenses with Egypt altogether.

Young soldier Radamès is wrestling with his love for Aida, a captured Ethiopian servant of the haughty Princess Amneris. The warmth and majesty of Verdi’s score creates pictures within the cold ...

Robert Carsen’s staging of Aida, now in its third season at Covent Garden, feels more pertinent with every year that the Ukraine war continues and tensions in world politics increase. Carsen zeroes in ...