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Arizona Opera Offers Aida This weekend. By Margaret Regan BACK IN 1869, when the Suez Canal was about to open, the ruler of Egypt invited Giuseppe Verdi to compose a work heralding the new mechanical marvel. Verdi was uninspired by the idea of immortalizing the unprecedented sea link between the Mediterranean and the Gulf of Suez, but he proposed an alternative: an opera set in the glory days of ancient Egypt. Aida didn t get finished in time to greet the first boats Rigoletto was a hasty substitute but Aida nevertheless had its debut in the Cairo Opera House, in 1871. Arizona Opera puts on its own ....