OPERA

Aida Axed: Giuseppe Verdi’s “Aida” will not be stopping at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum next month, Montreal-based producer International Opera Festival announced Tuesday afternoon. The producers, who earlier canceled the first of the show’s two Los Angeles appearances, had sold only about 6,000 tickets and said projected sales weren’t expected to cover the “enormous production costs” of such things as a cast of thousands, 45-foot Sphinx and 50-pound python. They said the show would open as planned in New York and San Francisco. Ticketholders can return to the point of purchase for refunds.