Republic & After · event 5 of 14

1971

The opera house burns. The 1869 Khedivial Opera House is destroyed by fire. Cairo has no opera house for seventeen years; the site becomes a car park.

The Republic & After era

  1. 1952
  2. 1956
  3. 1961
  4. 1967
  5. 1971
  6. 1973
  7. 1981
  8. 1988
  9. 2005
  10. 25 January 2011
  11. 2013
  12. 2015
  13. 2021
  14. 2020s

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