Cairo opera house

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Cairo opera house

cairo opera house
Cairo opera house is located at Zamalek district, was inaugurated on October 1988, by President Mubarak and Prince Tomohito of Mikasa of Japan, it is a Japanese gift after the visit of the Egyptian president to Japan in April 1983, the construction has begun in May 1985.
It compensates the old Cairo opera house that was built after the order of Khedive Ismail who wanted to construct an opera house to celebrate the inauguration of Suez Canal in 1869, architects were Italians “Avoscani & Rossi”, and the construction lasted for 6 months, made mostly of wood, was opened on 1 November 1869.
Khedive Ismail wanted anKhedivial Opera House opera that represents the ancient Egyptian history, the French archaeologist August Mariette, wrote a heroic story, the Italian music composer Giuseppe Verdi composed the music, the result was the famous opera AIDA, unfortunately, was not played in the inauguration of the old opera house (Khedivial opera house) as the customs and seats could not be transported from France because of the Franco-Prussian war, instead, the Cairo opera house opened with the Rigoletto, Verdi’s opera.
AIDA was played in the ancient opera house in 1871, one century later, this opera house was burned by a fire on 28 October 1971.
Thanks to Yasser Fathy, my dear friend, who helps me to progress in my Italian studies, works in the Italian cultural center, gave me 2 invitations to assist the Italian Verdi opera (un ballo in Maschera), I went with my sweety friend Rasha El Ibiary), we had a wonderful musical Cairo evening.

i should also tell you that it has three theatres:

The big theatre, meanly for classic performances, the small theatre, and the open theatre.

Cairo opera house is considered now as the mean cultural activities center in Cairo 

Egyptian culture

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Egyptian culture

Egyptian culture

Egyptian culture was the subject of what we talked about Sarah Rezk and me this Saturday at the Cairo radio station that is the home of radio and television at Maspero.
Sara Rezk is a beautiful good Radio presenter on Cairo radio, she invited me to go to the studio, and it was my second time going.
Her question was what can Egyptians “who are working in the sectors of tourism and media” do to propaganda to our Egyptian culture?

We find that cinema plays an important role to propaganda to the Egyptian culture already, the Egyptian cinema is known in the Arab world and Egyptian actors are beloved, we still need to do more effort to develop the technique of the Egyptian cinema, to keep the Egyptian identity in choosing the topics in order to take a place in the international field

We talked about the traditional Egyptian food, and we found that it is important to have more Egyptian restaurants abroad at affordable prices to represent the traditional Egyptian dishes, as it could play an important role to publish our Egyptian culture.

We agreed that the Egyptian cultural centers could play an important role and that they should make more effort to the propaganda to the Egyptian culture abroad.

We found also that the Egyptians who had the opportunity to go abroad either to work, to study, or for tourism, have a responsibility to convey to the Egyptians what they have learned there, and also propaganda to the Egyptian culture there.

We ended up wishing a Happy Sham el Nessim (Easter) which is an Egyptian Pharaonic feast of the spring…
The Egyptians go to the gardens; they eat colored eggs, salty fish, and union as they represent the beginning of life.

And at the end of our speech, we wished a happy feast to all our listeners.
And for you my beloved readers/clients/friends Happy Sham El Nassim 🙂