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A night at the Cairo Opera House

Posted by lucid | 17th November 2009

My first trip to the opera came courtesy of my student's mother, who works for the Cairo Opera House. I have always liked the idea of being a fan of opera, since it implies a certain amount of culture, wealth and a good musical ear. I didn't really know if I fit in to any of these categories but I was pretty excited about going anyway. The Opera House is in Zamalek, in downtown Cairo and takes (on a good traffic day) about an hour to drive there from Al Rehab. We now have a regular taxi driver, recommended by my school, who charges fixed prices and will collect us from wherever we are dropped off with an hour's notice. Due to the hectic Cairo traffic, our taxi driver waited for us for nearly 4 hours and the round trip fare was only 145LE.

The Cairo Opera house is a large and modern building, built by the Japanese to replace the former opera house, which burned down 40 years ago. We struggled to find the way i

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