Aida
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Aida is a tragic opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in the Old Kingdom of Egypt, it was commissioned by Cairo's Khedivial Opera House and had its p
Cover of a very early vocal score, c. 1872
Radamès (Giuseppe Fancelli) and Aida (Teresa Stolz) in act 4, scene 2 of the 1872 La Scala European première (drawing by Leopoldo Metlicovitz)
Verdi conducting the 1880 Paris Opera premiere
A scene from the Israeli Opera production performed at Masada in 2011
Khedivial Opera House
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The Khedivial Opera House or Egyptian Royal Opera House was an opera house in Cairo, Egypt, the oldest opera house in all of Africa and the Middle East. It was inaugurated on 1 November 1869 and it bu
Aida
…opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in the Old Kingdom of Egypt, it was commissioned by Cairo's Khedivial Opera House and had its première there on 24 December 1871, in a performance conducted by Giovanni Bottesini. Today the work holds a central place in the operatic…
Modern Egypt, Khedivial Opera House, BAP 25178
The Khedivial Opera House.