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On the banks of the Nile sits the Ethiopian princess Aida. Enslaved by the Pharaoh, she longs in song for home and for her captor’s military commander, with whom she has fallen in love. Thus begins Verdi’s Aida. The popular opera has lent its “Grand March” to Europe’s football chants as well as Chumbawamba’s song “Top of the World (Ole, Ole, Ole).”
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