Article: In Egypt, Staging `Aida' by the Acre

Technicians are erecting one of the largest stages ever built for an extravagant production of "Aida" at the base of the Giza Pyramids.

It will be Egypt's second production this year of the Giuseppe Verdi opera, a story of doomed love between a Pharaoh's son and an Ethiopian slave girl.

Organizers say they expect 25,000 opera buffs, mainly foreigners, to fill the 5,000-seat theater erected by Egyptian army engineers for the eight performances Sept. 21-29 by Teatro Petruzzelli of Bari, Italy.

In May, Fawzi Mitwali, an Egyptian-born entrepreneur based in Vienna, staged a $10 million production of "Aida" at 3,500-year-old Luxor Temple in southern Egypt. It starred another Italian ...

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