Verdi's monumental Aida returns to the theater it helped inaugurate forty years earlier, now in a new Houston Grand Opera production directed by Kaneza Schaal. Flowers, vivid color, and movement drawn from global art traditions frame a story of love caught between loyalty, war, and power. Ailyn Pérez leads the cast as Aida, with the HGO Chorus and Orchestra giving full force to one of opera's grandest scores.