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Article: In Egypt, Staging `Aida' by the Acre
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- The Washington Post
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- September 17, 1987
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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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