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Aida (also known as Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida) is a musical based on the opera of the same name written by Antonio Ghislanzoni with music by Giuseppe Verdi. It has music by Elton John , lyrics by Tim Rice , and book by Linda Woolverton , Robert Falls , and David Henry Hwang , and was originally produced by Hyperion Theatricals .
Clough, a coloratura soprano, [1] was one of several African-American sopranos who sang the title role in Verdi's Aida around the turn into the twentieth century, along with Caterina Jarboro and Florence Cole Talbert. [2] [3] Clough was Aida when the opera was performed by the Theodore Drury Opera Company in New York in 1903 and 1906.
In the case of the 1953 film, Ebe Stignani sang as Amneris, while Renata Tebaldi sang as Aida. The opera's story, but not its music, was used as the basis for a 1998 musical of the same name written by Elton John and Tim Rice. The opera has been portrayed in the 2001 Italian animated film Aida of the Trees (Aida degli alberi). The characters ...
Price also sang for Presidents Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Clinton. [citation needed] Her voice proved resilient as she entered her 50s. In the fall of 1981, she had a late triumph in San Francisco when she stepped in for an ailing Margaret Price as Aida, a role she had not sung since 1976.
This is a list of the singers, conductors, and dancers who have appeared in at least 100 performances at the Metropolitan Opera, last updated March 17, 2024.Performers are listed by the number of the performances they have appeared in as found at the Metropolitan Opera Archives. [1]
Headley was born in Trinidad, the daughter of Hannah and Eric Headley (Barbadian). [2] In 1989, she moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the United States [3] at the age of fifteen with her mother and brother Eric Junior when her father was offered a job as pastor of McKee Street Church of God with headquarters in Anderson, Indiana.
She sang Amelia in Un ballo in maschera for her debuts with both the San Francisco Opera (1971) and the Lyric Opera of Chicago (1972). She returned to Chicago to sing her first Amelia Grimaldi in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra in 1974. In 1972 she sang Aida for her debut at La Scala opposite Plácido Domingo as Radames.
The song came from the musical Aida, written by Elton John and Tim Rice. There are two different recordings of the song, one with Rimes performing the first verse, the other with John. The song was later featured on Rimes' 2002 album I Need You and the concept album for the musical. The song was performed live at VH1 Divas Live '99.