section_path: Culture/Khedivial Opera House
section_name: Khedivial Opera House
paragraph_text: Khedivial Opera House
  
  The Khedivial Opera House, or Royal Opera House, was the original opera house in Cairo. It was dedicated on 1 November 1869 and burned down on 28 October 1971. After the original opera house was destroyed, Cairo was without an opera house for nearly two decades until the opening of the new Cairo Opera House in 1988.