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Culture Buff

28 March 2015

9:00 AM

28 March 2015

9:00 AM

We’re all keen on infrastructure at the moment so it’s worth remembering what an astounding impact the Suez Canal made when opened in 1869. Cairo’s Royal Opera had opened just four days earlier with Rigoletto. No doubt inspired by the excitement of the Canal, and by a very large fee, Verdi agreed to write an opera for Cairo.

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