The Cairo Opera House is now broadcasting the Opera Aida. The opera features music by the Cairo Opera Orchestra, and dances by the Cairo Opera Ballet team with vocals by A Cappella Choir.

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The entrance of the Cairo Opera House was decorated like a passage to a shining ancient Egyptian temple, which leads to the open-air Fountain Theatre that staged Egypt's world-renowned opera Aida ...

Aida is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in Egypt, it was commissioned by and first performed at Cairo's Khedivial Opera House on December 24, ...

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The Cairo Opera Ballet Troupe will appear in Italy later this week to perform Aida, celebrating 150 years since the production's first presentation in Egypt, Egypt Today reports. The production was ...