Aida (opera) Aida Aida, an Italian opera by Giuseppe Verdi premiered in Cairo in 1871. A grand four-act drama set in ancient Egypt, celebrated for its choruses, pageantry and powerful arias.
Boris Godunov (opera) — Mussorgsky’s drama of power and conscience Boris Godunov (opera) Boris Godunov is the only completed opera by Modest Mussorgsky, composed 1868–1873. A landmark of Russian musical drama, it explores legitimacy, guilt and national life through inn…