The Pharaonic Work of the Canal D’urgell that Took the Water to Ponent, Told Through the Opera

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A pharaonic work such as the construction of the Canal d’Urgell, which in the mid-19th century brought the water to the west Catalonia, needed to be explained by the most colossal of the arts: the opera, which at that time came massively to the people. And if Verdi composed Aida on behalf of the Jedive of Egypt to celebrate the inauguration of the Canal de Suez, now, century and a half later, it is the Fundació Canal d’Urgell that, with less pos…