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Egypt's Revolution: A Tragedy of Operatic Proportions

Hadani Ditmars | Posted 06.28.2012 | Canada
Hadani Ditmars

Indeed on a late April evening in Vancouver, taking in the opera, Aida, the powerful tale of absolute power and slave rebellions, it was hard not to think about the "Egyptian spring" -- which seems to have most in common with the tragic heroine, whose passion is slowly suffocated in a tomb at the feet of the gods.