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2020-03-04 09:06:18
From The Velvet Room to Tabla and Tap: the new cohort of artists taking part in Opera North's Resonance
Abel Selaocoe © Ben Bonouvrier Opera North has announced a new intake of artists for Resonance, its residency scheme from BAME music makers. Taking part in 2020 will be British-Egyptian mezzo-soprano Camille Maalawy, cellist Abel Selaocoe, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and singer Pariss Elektra, composer, vocalist and film maker Dan Loops, tabla player, producer and educator Bhupinder Chaggar and writer-director Omari Swanston-Jeffers.Resonance is Opera North's programme which offers time, space and resources to professional artists from BAME backgrounds working in any genre of music and based in the North of England, to take their work in new directions, to experiment with collaborators and new ideas, and to test the results in front of audiences. A new sitar concerto by Jasdeep Singh Degun, premiered by the orchestra of Opera North last month, was the result of Jasdeep Singh Degun's participation in a Resonance residency with Opera North. Omari Swanston-Jeffers […]
2018-04-14 17:37:41
"Opera Aida"consists of four acts that embody the conflict between duties and passionthrough telling the love story of the Ethiopian prisoner Aida and the Commander of the Egyptian Army Radamis. Radamis is sentenced to death after the Pharaoh knows that he was trying to escape with Aida to Ethiopia.
2018-04-14 15:44:00
Ashraf Sewailam Capitán in Florencia en el Amazonas 1. Where were you born and raised? Cairo, Egypt - born and raised until I was 25 and came to the US to study singing. 2. If you weren’t a singer, what profession would you be in? Truck driver, playing opera full-blast. 3. The first opera I was ever in was… Le nozze di Figaro in Arabic translation at the Cairo Opera House, March 10, 1988. I performed Bartolo and Antonio. 4. My favorite opera is… ...Verdi's Falstaff. 5. My favorite food to cook or eat is… I love cooking Thanksgiving food, all of it. Also, fixing Egyptian fava beans in about a dozen ways. 6. People would be surprised to know… I'm the Arabic dubbing voice of Mickey Mouse, Ursula in The Little Mermaid, Louis in The Princess and the Frog, and Slim in A […]
2018-02-13 23:04:58
Egypt Today breaks down this attraction into three major values - human, artistic and historical -presenting to you why the international opera community sanctifies this opera specifically. As the Khedive of Egypt was a great lover of European culture, he decided to produce an opera commemorating the inauguration of both the Suez Canal and the Cairo Opera House.
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