ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>AIDA</TITLE> <META content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv=Content-Type> <BODY><br><br><FONT face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size=2> <DIV align=center> <CENTER> <TABLE border="0" cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 width=800> <TBODY> <TR> <TD align="left" valign="middle" colSpan=2 height=50><FONT color=#000000 face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size=6>AIDA</A><BR><FONT color=#000000 face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size=3><I>Giuseppe Verdi / Antonio Ghislanzoni</I><BR><FONT color=#2E02B1 face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size=5><B>Lyric Opera of Kansas City</B><br><FONT color=#000000 face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size=3>September 2007<br><br> </TABLE> <TABLE border="0" height=280 width=800> <TBODY> <tr><td> </td><td align="right"><FONT color=#33CC66 face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size=5><A HREF="aida.html"><br><br>Click here to go back to main page >>> </A><br></td></tr></FONT> <TR><TD colspan="2"> <font 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