الثلاثاء، 29 أكتوبر 2019

Aida ... Two stories and One Place


(As if the wheel of the time rotate quickly and take us 7000 years ago to Thebes (Luxor city now
.which was the ancient Capital of Kemet (Egypt) and it's also known as the City of Sun

In the antiquity, the Egyptian King knew that the Ethiopian Army chief preparing his army to enter Egypt which is very dangerous for Thebes
The Egyptian King prepared his army as well To face the danger coming from the south
 He Sent The Egyptian Army Chief Radames to Ethiopia
When Radames arrived in Ethiopia he falls in love with Aida but he didn't know she is the Princess and The daughter of The Ethiopian king
He faced the struggle between love and the Duty towards his country, Then He decided to escape with the princess
 The High Priest knew about him and Radames was Sentenced to death

This is Aida Opera which was a Manuscript discovered by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette
 in Nile valley, but it was written by Merriet The Famous Egyptologist
Isma'il Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, commissioned Verdi to write an opera for performance to celebrate the opening of the Khedivial Opera House, paying him 150,000 francs The History repeats itself in 2019 in the place where the Aida's written story happened 
It's Luxor city which witnessed Love, War, loyalty and many conflicts in Authority and religions
This Opera was sung in 26,27 October 2019 beside Queen's Hatshipsut Temple, and I don't know if they chose this place by luck or it was meant
?Why I am saying this
Because Queen Hatshepsut faced the same situation as Radames 
she falls in love with the Egyptian Architect ( Snnenmot ) who was one of the common people
Sadly She sacrificed her love and didn't marry him because she had to be the Queen of Egypt and marry Thotmos II

She preferred her country over her love and ruled Egypt with her heart and people loved her.
 Snnenmot built a great temple to her and a Cemetery in the same place to be near to her always
?Can you see how sad this love story

when I think about the place of the opera I can't say any comment but a message to my Great-grandma Queen Hatshipsut : ( You were a great Queen, you choose your country not your love and Today after thousands of years, people sing a sad love story song beside your temple which was built by the man you love 
And although Aida's opera has a sad love story too, the story of Queen hatshipsut wasn't a novel like 
Aida's one, it was real
No one witnesses the two sad stories unless the walls of your Temple, My grandma
May your soul meet your lover's soul in the other world

The Egyptian Photographer Mustafa Karim was there to take great photos to us 
please don't use those photos if you didn't take his permission
I will let you with the photos













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