Aida is a grand opera replete with arias whose melodies soar and triumphal scenes that are filled with heralding brass trumpets, percussion, and chorus. ROMANIAN MEZZO-SOPRANO Emanuela Pascu as ...

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 ...