Cairo Opera House Summer Festival 2024
Cairo Opera House
Gezira Exhibition Grounds, Tel 02 2737 0602/2736 0361, box office 02 2739 0132/0144
Open-Air Theatre
Thurs 18, 8.30pm: The Talents Development Centre concert, the drums class, trained and led by Alfred Barakat.
Fri 19, 8.30pm: Alexandria Opera Strings Orchestra gives a concert featuring musician Hany Shenouda.
Sun 21, 8.30pm: A night of classical Arab music.
Fri 26, 8.30pm: Aaz Al Nas (the dearest people) band, conducted by maestro Maged Sorour performs classical Arab music.
Mon 29, 8.30pm: Singer Nesma Mahgoub and her band.
Wed 31, 8.30pm: "Sufism and Modernism" concert features musician Fathi Salama and munshid (religious chanter) Sheikh Mahmoud El-Tohamy.
Alexandria Opera House (Sayed Darwish Theatre)
Fouad St, Mahatat Al-Raml, Alexandria, Tel 03/486 5106
Thurs 18, 8.30pm: A concert by opera superstar singer Riham Abdel-Hakim, accompanied by the Arab music company.
Sat 20, 8.30pm: The Talents Development Centre concert, led by professor Mohamed Abdel-Sattar.
Beit Al-Seheimi
Al-Muaaz St, Al-Darb Al-Asfar Alley, Al-Gamalya District, Tel 02 2787 8865
Every Sunday, 8pm: The Nile Troupe for Folk Instruments performs dances and songs from Upper Egypt on mizmar, tabla and other traditional musical instruments.
Every Friday, 8pm: “Alaragouz wa Khayal Al-Zel” (The Shadow Puppet), a free public performance by clowns in Al-Muaaz Street, presented by Wamda and directed by Nabil Bahgat.
Al-Ghouri Caravansary
Mohamed Abdou St, off Al-Muaaz St and Al-Azhar St, Tel 02 2514 7475
Al-Tanoura whirling dervishes perform to live Sufi music
(Performances every Sat and Wed, 7.30pm).
Makan
1 Saad Zaghloul St, Al-Mounira, Cairo, Tel 2792 0878
Every Tuesday, 8pm: Mawawil features vocalists Hend and Sara in a repertoire of traditional music of the Nile Delta, Al Jaafra music played by Arab Tribes from Aswan and Nass Makan band.
Every Wednesday, 8pm: Zar music and songs by Mazaher ensemble featuring Umm Sameh, Umm Hassan and Nour Al-Sabah.
Room Art Space & Café
10 Etihad Al Mohamin, Garden City, Tel 01000 068 159
Thurs 18, 8pm: With the release of Lone Friend's first album, Timeless Pine, Love, he is excited to play it live, and share these intimate batch of songs along with other songs that inspired the album. These songs tell the tale of celestial love, of bliss and pain, of forgiveness and forgetfulness. An inevitable path, all-encompassing and all-forgiving.
Fri 19, 8pm: Paranoid Eyes is an Egyptian progressive rock band with a great passion for covering the tunes of Pink Floyd and the solo projects released by the legendary David Gilmour and Roger Waters.
Sat 20, 8pm: Something special (schizophrenia) stand-up comedy show by Hamza Bahaa.
Tues 23, 9pm: Karaoke night.
Thurs 25, 8pm: Enjoy unique music from the Mohamed Sawah band, which offers a wide mix of contemporary music and songs.
The trumpet occupies a central place in this fusion between classical Arabic maqams, works and themes, and modern sounds. In addition to the trombets, the band includes piano and guitar, oud, and rhythms.
The Spot mall, infront of AUC Gate 4, New Cairo
Thurs 18 and Thurs 25, 9pm: Karaoke night.
Wed 24, 9pm: Karaoke night.
El Sawy Culturewheel
End of 26th of July St, underneath the 15th of May Bridge, Zamalek, Tel 2736 8881/6178/2737 4448
River Hall
Fri 19, 8pm: Tablet El Sitt, an all-female Egyptian band reviving ancient traditional music.
Sun 21, 8pm: Hazem Elsharkawy acoustic concert.
Mon 22, 8pm: A musical concert by STAGE-5 band.
Thurs 25, 8pm: "We are not in London" stand-up comedy show by Ali Qandil.
Wisdom Hall
Fri 19, 8pm: Religious chanting and zikr (remembering God) by munshid Sheikh Mahmoud El-Tohamy.
Sat 20, 8pm: Stand-up comedy show by Sharnobyl.
Wed 24, 9pm: Arab singing recital by Ali El-Haggar.
Thurs 25, 8pm: Oud recital by Salma Mokhtar.
The Nile University
El-Sheikh Zayed branch
Thurs 18, 8pm: Massar Egbari band.
Swiss Club
Villa Pax, 17 El Gihad St, off Sudan St, Kit Kat Sq, Giza, Tel 02 33151455
Thurs 18, 6pm: Breaking Walls Festival presents Footloose performance which is an urban poetical action inspired by the Civil March for Aleppo, a march for peace from Berlin to Aleppo. It involves a walk and score performed on perforated bricks worn as shoes, modifying posture, movement, weight control, and relationship with space. The energy generates a magnetic force that brings people together in a new encounter. The walkers wear bricks as shoes, move the border, and land at a dance that smashes the wall. The poetic action invites people to set out, trespass, and risk, as they are the mine that wanders, the wall that collapses, the flight, the open sea in a storm, the foreign language, and the land of passage.
ALEXANDRIA
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Chatby, Alexandria 21526, Tel (03) 4839999
Stay tuned for the 21st International Summer Festival
* A version of this article appears in print in the 18 July, 2024 edition of Al-Ahram Weekly
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