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
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