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The facade of the Alexandria Opera House inscribed Theatre Mohamed Aly, with a seated bronze statue in its forecourt.
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Alexandria Opera House

Alexandria Opera House, also called the Sayed Darwish Theatre, was built in 1918–1921 to designs by the French architect Georges Parcq and opened as the Mohamed Ali Theatre. Renamed in 1962 after the composer Sayed Darwish and restored in 2000–2004, it hosts opera, ballet, symphony concerts and Arab music by the Cairo Opera House companies and visiting ensembles.

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