* The play After Aida — a 1985 play-with-music by Julian Mitchell — depicts the struggle of Giulio Ricordi and Franco Faccio to get the retired Verdi to collaborate with young Boito on a project, which resulted in Otello.

The Royal Horse Artillery, marching to the " Royal Artillery Slow March " and then the " March from Aida ", is first, taking precedence over all other units when on parade with its guns.

After singing operetta and lyric roles such as Marguerite in Faust for over a decade, Flagstad decided to take on heavier operatic roles such as Tosca and Aida.

In 1951 he sang at Bayreuth as Amfortas in Parsifal, and reappeared frequently in the 1950s and early 1960s as Amfortas and in the title role of The Flying Dutchman He made his debut with the Metropolitan Opera in 1951 as Amonasro in Aida, and sang over 270 performances, both baritone and bass-baritone roles, in such operas as Le nozze di Figaro, The Magic Flute, Arabella, Tosca, Don Giovanni, Boris Godunov, Carmen, Otello, Parsifal, Tannhäuser, The Tales of Hoffman, Pelléas et Mélisande, and Faust.

It began as a purely lyric instrument but increased in size over time, enabling her to sing parts as heavy as Aida, Sieglinde, Santuzza and Tosca in large auditoriums.

A notable tenant and one of the longest running shows was Aida, which ran for over four years, from 2000 through 2004, and 1, 852 performances and won four Tony awards.

During the 1990s, Aida made erotic photographs of teenage models both over and under 18 years of age.

* Aida, a well-known chain located all over the city.

Curiously, this scene is a close parallel to one that Verdi was writing at the same time, the scene between Amonasro and Aida.

Many refugees from areas captured by Israeli forces in 1947 – 48 fled to the Bethlehem area, primarily settling in the what became the official refugee camps of ' Azza ( Beit Jibrin ) and ' Aida in the north and Dheisheh in the south.

Beit Jala and the latter form an agglomeration with Bethlehem and the Aida and Azza refugee camps are located within the city limits.

Aida fabric has a lower count because it is made with two threads grouped together for ease of stitching.

A grant from Alston's sister Rousmaniere Wilson and step-sister Aida Bearden Winters assisted in completing a restoration of the works in 1993.

* 1871 – Aida opens in Cairo.

His works are frequently performed in opera houses throughout the world and, transcending the boundaries of the genre, some of his themes have long since taken root in popular culture – such as " La donna è mobile " from Rigoletto, " Va, pensiero " ( The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves ) from Nabucco, " Libiamo ne ' lieti calici " ( The Drinking Song ) from La traviata and the " Grand March " from Aida.

Verdi's grand opera, Aida, is sometimes thought to have been commissioned for the celebration of the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, but, according to one major critic, Verdi turned down the Khedive's invitation to write an " ode " for the new opera house he was planning to inaugurate as part of the canal opening festivities.

The role of Aida was written for her, and although she did not appear in the world premiere in Cairo in 1871, she created Aida in the European premiere in Milan in February 1872.

With the exception of Otello and Aida, it is said that he was free of Wagner's influence.

Some strains in Aida suggest at least a superficial familiarity with the works of the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka, whom Franz Liszt, after his tour of the Russian Empire as a pianist, popularized in Western Europe.

* The 1985 play After Aida is a play-with-music similar to Amadeus.

* March 26 – The first half of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida, conducted by legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini, and performed in concert ( i. e. no scenery or costumes ), is telecast by NBC, live from Studio 8H at Rockefeller Center.

* June 27 – 19-year-old American socialite Aida de Acosta becomes the first woman to fly a powered aircraft solo when she pilots Santos-Dumont's motorized dirigible, “ No. 9 ”, from Paris to Château de Bagatelle in France.

Policemen led by watch commander Aida Fariscal and investigators find a bomb factory and a laptop computer and disks that contain plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.

While it has not proved to be as immensely popular as the Verdi works that immediately preceded it, namely Aida and Otello, Falstaff has long been an admired favorite with critics and musicians because of its brilliant orchestration, scintillating libretto and refined melodic invention.

Aida (), sometimes spelled Aïda, is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, based on a scenario written by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette.

( Verdi biographer Mary Jane Phillips-Matz has argued that the scenario was actually written by Temistocle Solera ..) Aida was first performed at the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo on 24 December 1871, conducted by Giovanni Bottesini.

Aida met with great acclaim when it finally opened in Cairo on 24 December 1871.

Verdi had also written the role of Aida for the voice of Teresa Stolz, who sang it for the first time at the Milan premiere.

Aida was received with great enthusiasm at its Milan premiere.

Ivanhoe depicts the cruel tyranny of the Norman overlords ( Norman Yoke ) over the impoverished Saxon populace of England, with two of the main characters, Rowena and Locksley ( Robin Hood ), representing the dispossessed Saxon aristocracy.

" The song depicts David grieving over the death of his son.

The bracteate depicts the " horse-stabber underhoof " scene, a supine warrior stabbing a horse while it runs over him.

For example, from Sumerian Literature we can see the same Genre that we see in the Book of Lamentations of the Funeral Dirge and Lament reflected in the Sumerian Lament: Lamentation over the Destruction of Sumer and Ur which depicts the destruction of the cities of Sumer and Ur.

The most famous of these, The Toreador, depicts a sacred ceremony in which individuals jump over the backs of large bulls.

This one depicts the cairn erected over the site of Scott's last tent.

The next morning, when Skaara draws a picture of the people's victory against Ra, Jackson realizes that part of this drawing depicts the seventh symbol needed to reactivate the Stargate: three moons over a pyramid.

" The Politics of Fear ", a cartoon by Barry Blitt featured on the cover of the July 21, 2008 issue, depicts then presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama in the turban and salwar kameez typical of many Muslims, fist bumping with his wife, Michelle, portrayed with an Afro and wearing camouflage trousers with an AK-47 assault rifle slung over her back.

The play captures the conflict between her father and her brothers, and depicts changes in their lives after the British Raj took over their princely state.

The Chac-Mool depicts a human figure in a position of reclining with the head up and turned to one side, holding a tray over the stomach.

Just over one meter high, it depicts a woman with huge eyes, skinny arms, knobby knees and a detailed rendering of her toes.

The design is a marked improvement over another folio ( 189v ) which depicts a man trying to break the force of his fall by the means of two long cloth streamers fastened to two bars which he grips with his hands.

This map depicts the current rivers and coastline and certain features have changed over the years, notably Miletus, Heracleia, and Myus were on the south side of a gulf and Priene on the north side ; the river Maeander has since filled in the gulf.

Lucian depicts Rhadamanthus as presiding over the company of heroes on the Isle of the Blessed in True History.

His tale depicts the futility of desiring power over others and the strength of God's protection over his fully surrendered devotees ( in the case of his son Prahlada ).

The 2006 documentary Jesus Camp, which depicts the life of young children attending Becky Fischer's Pentecostal summer camp, shows Fischer condemning the Harry Potter novels and telling the students that " Warlocks are enemies of God " ( see also Religious debates over the Harry Potter series ).

Such is the bas-relief by Giovanni Battista Maini of The Burning of Heretical Books over a side door on the façade of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, which depicts the burning of ' heretical ' books as a triumph of righteousness.

The film Kopierer ( 2010 ) depicts an open color laser copy machine, the CLC 1100, in the act of copying documents over a period of ten minutes.

In celebrated frescoes at the Palazzo Labia, he depicted two frescoes on the life of Cleopatra: Meeting of Anthony and Cleopatra and Banquet of Cleopatra, as well as a central ceiling fresco depicts Triumph of Bellerophon over Time.

There is no mention of any " state " flag until the mid-14th century, when a Spanish atlas, the Conosçimiento de todos los reynos depicts the flag of " the Empire of Constantinople " combining the red-on-white Cross of St George with the " tetragrammic cross " of the ruling house of the Palaiologoi, featuring the four betas or pyrekvola (" fire-steels ") on the flag quarters representing the imperial motto Βασιλεύς Βασιλέων Βασιλεύων Βασιλευόντων (" King of Kings Reigning over those who Rule ").

The tympanum depicts Christ in Majesty presiding over the judgment of the souls of the deceased.

The painting depicts a dragon flying overhead and this could be interpreted to mean that the Mass itself was interrupted by a mysterious event thought to be a dragon or salamander flying over the congregation.

Another of Waterhouse's favorite subjects was Ophelia ; the most famous of his paintings of Ophelia depicts her just before her death, putting flowers in her hair as she sits on a tree branch leaning over a lake.