Giuseppe Verdi Verdi and Giuseppina decided to adopt Carlo's great-niece Filomena Maria Verdi, then seven years old, as their own child. She was to marry in 1878 the son of Verdi's friend and lawyer Angelo Carrara and her family became eventually the heirs of Verdi's estate. "Aida" was commissioned by the Egyptian government for the opera house built by the Khedive Isma'il Pasha to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. The opera house actually opened with a production of "Rigoletto". The prose libretto in French by Camille du Locle, based on a scenario by the Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, was
Suez Canal Area Development Project Housing) proposed the project to President Anwar al Sadat, but due to problems, the project didn't start. He proposed the project again to Hosni Mubarak in the 1990s but it did not work either. Engineer Hassaballah El Kafrawy sought to turn the canal corridor into an important international region rather than just a passageway for ships. In 2008, the former Minister of Transportation Mohamed Mansour again proposed the project. However, the Egyptian government again did not take any serious steps to start the project. In 2012, the Muslim Brotherhood introduced a development project for the Suez Canal region during the