Vladimir Galouzine (Russian: Владимир Галузин , "Vladimir Galuzin", ] ) is a Russian tenor.
 He has performed in such Russian operas as "The Queen of Spades", "Boris Godunov" and "Khovanshchina" and has performed the lead roles in Italian operas like "Madama Butterfly", "Otello", "Tosca", "Aida", and "Manon Lescaut".
Aida (] ) is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni.
 Set in Egypt, it was commissioned by and first performed at Cairo's Khedivial Opera House on 24 December 1871; Giovanni Bottesini conducted after Verdi himself withdrew.
 Today the work holds a central place in the operatic canon, receiving performances every year around the world; at New York's Metropolitan Opera alone, "Aida" has been sung more than 1,100 times since 1886.
 Ghislanzoni's scheme follows a scenario often attributed to the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, but Verdi biographer Mary Jane Phillips-Matz argues that the source is actually Temistocle Solera.
Vilhelm Krag (24 December 1871 – 10 July 1933) was a Norwegian poet, author, journalist and cultural personality.
 Known for coining the term Sørlandet to describe a region of Norway, he was the younger brother of the novelist Thomas Krag.
Jean-Baptiste François Pompallier (11 December 1802 – 21 December 1871) was the first Roman Catholic bishop in New Zealand and, with priests and brothers of the Marist order, he organised the Roman Catholic Church throughout the country.
 He was born in Lyon, France.
 He arrived in New Zealand in 1838 as Vicar Apostolic of Western Oceania, but made New Zealand the centre of his operations.
 In 1848 he became the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland.
 He returned to France in 1868 and died in Puteaux, near Paris, on 21 December 1871, aged 69.
 His exhumed remains were returned to New Zealand in 2001 and they were re-interred under the altar at St Mary's, Motuti, in 2002.
 Educational institutions named in his honour include Pompallier Catholic College, Whangarei (1969).
 There are Pompallier houses at Sacred Heart College, Auckland (1903), St. Bernard's College, Lower Hutt (1947), Carmel College, Auckland (1957), St John's College, Hamilton (1961), St Peter's College, Gore (1969), Liston College, Auckland (1974), St Mary's Rotorua, Garin College, Nelson (2002) and other New Zealand secondary and primary schools.
 Sancta Maria College, Auckland (2004) commemorates Pompallier and his work through the name of his schooner, the "Sancta Maria".
Jim Whelan (24 December 1871 – 30 June 1949) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League.
Lilian Decima, Lady Moore-Guggisberg, CBE (11 December 1871 – 18 February 1964), better known by her stage name Decima Moore, was an English singer and actress, known for her performances in soprano roles with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and in musical comedies.
 She was the youngest of ten siblings (hence, the name "Decima").
 Her sister, actress Eva Moore, was the mother of actress Jill Esmond, the first wife of Laurence Olivier.
Sidney Edwards Morse (7 February 1794 Charlestown, Massachusetts – 24 December 1871 New York City) was a U.S. inventor, geographer and journalist.
 He was the brother of telegraphy pioneer and painter Samuel F. B. Morse.
Prosper-Didier Deshayes (mid 18th century – 1815) was an opera composer and dancer who lived and worked in France.
 In 1764 he was a balletmaster at the Comédie-Française.
 By 1774 he had become an assistant ("adjoint") at the Paris Opéra.
 His first opera "Le Faux serment ou La Matrone de Gonesse", a "comédie mêlée d'ariettes" in two acts, was first performed on 31 December 1785 at the Théâtre des Beaujolais in Paris and became a popular success.
 He went on to have another 18 works performed at various venues in Paris, but only two, "La faut serment" and "Zélie, ou Le mari à deux femmes", a 3-act "drame" first performed at the Salle Louvois on 29 October 1791, were ever published as musical scores.
 He also participated in the collaborative Revolutionary opera "Le congrès des rois", a 3-act "comédie mêlée d'ariettes", which combined music written by Deshayes and 11 other composers and was first performed by the Opéra-Comique at the Salle Favart on 26 February 1794.
 He died in Paris.
John Brady ("circa" 1800 in Cavan, Ireland3 December 1871 in Amélie-les-Bains, France), an Australian metropolitan bishop, was the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Perth, serving from 1845 until his death in 1871, despite having been suspended of his functions "motu proprio" in October 1851 by Pope Pius IX.
This is a list of the mayors of the Municipality of Leichhardt, a former local government area of New South Wales, Australia.
 The official title of Mayors while holding office was: His/Her Worship The Mayor of Leichhardt.
 First incorporated on 29 December 1871 as the "Municipal District of Leichhardt", the municipality commenced operations on 14 December 1871 and the election of the first Council was held on 6 February 1872.
 The first mayor was Alderman Frank Beames, elected at the first meeting of the council on 16 February 1872.
 From 1 January 1949, with the passing of the "Local Government (Areas) Act 1948", Leichhardt was reconstituted incorporating the former municipalities of Annandale and Balmain.
 The last Mayor of Leichhardt was Councillor Darcy Byrne (ALP), first elected on 25 September 2012, who served until the council's amalgamation into the new Inner West Council, which was established on 12 May 2016.

Question: Where was the opera that Vladimir Galouzine was in that was first performed on 24 December 1871?
Answer: Cairo's Khedivial Opera House