Italian Egyptians which was to be inaugurated in 1871 with the "Aida" by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. The Khedivial Opera House or "Cairo Royal Opera House" was the original Opera House in Cairo. It was inaugurated on November 1869 and burned down on October 1971. The opera house was built on the orders of the Khedive Ismail to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal. The Italian Egyptian architects Pietro Avoscani and Mario Rossi designed the building. Pietro Avoscani, before his 1891 death in Alexandria, created even the famous "Corniche" of Alexandria. The fondness of Egyptian monarchs towards Italy appeared in
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