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The Cairo Opera House (Arabic: دار الأوبرا المصرية, Dār el-Opera el-Masreyya; literally "Egyptian Opera House"), part of Cairo's National Cultural Centre, is the main performing arts venue in the Egyptian capital.
The Khedivial Opera House or Royal Opera House (Arabic: دار الأوبرا الخديوية / ALA-LC: Dār Awbirā al-Khudaywī) was an opera house in Cairo, Egypt, the oldest opera house in all of Africa. It was inaugurated on 1 November 1869 and it burned down on 28 October 1971. The opera house was built on the orders of the Khedive ...
The Cairo Opera Ballet Company is the resident ballet company of the Cairo Opera House and a ballet school affiliated to Egypt's Higher Institute of Ballet.Its foundation began in 1958 during the presidency of Gamal Abdel Nasser through the efforts of Tharwat Okasha, Egypt's culture minister at the time, and Leonid Lavrovsky, the former artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, who took a group ...
Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Sayed Darwish Theatre, Alexandria, Egypt. The Solís Theatre in Montevideo, Uruguay.Opened in 1856 is the oldest opera house in South America.
It was established in 1959 and is located in the same building complex as the Cinema Institute and the Higher Institute for Theatrical Arts, Haram, Giza, [1] Greater Cairo, while the Cairo Symphony Orchestra is based at Cairo Opera House in Cairo. [2]
The Khedivial Opera House, or Royal Opera House, was the original opera house in Cairo. It was dedicated on 1 November 1869 and burned down on 28 October 1971. After the original opera house was destroyed, Cairo was without an opera house for nearly two decades until the opening of the new Cairo Opera House in 1988.
Ratiba Hefny (Arabic: رتيبة الحفني; 2 December 1931 – 16 September 2013) was an Egyptian international Opera singer who performed in more than 500 opera performances. [1] She was the dean of the Higher Institute of Arabic Music in Cairo, and became the director of the Cairo Opera House in 1988.
In 2001, it was performed by the Cairo Opera Ballet Company, which was directed by Abdel Moneim Kamel. In November 2011 and July 2020, the play attracted large number of audiences at the Cairo Opera House. [6] As a new approach to the historic piece, in May 2014 the GUC Music Academy premiered its new production of El Leila El Kebira.