The opera-lovers evening will open with an overture to Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) by Rossini, and will include the following arias:
Gioachino Rossini:
Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville): “Largo al factotum,” “Il Vecchiotto cerca moglie,” “La Calunnia”
Giuseppe Verdi:
Rigoletto: “La Donna e mobile,” “Quartet”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
The Magic Flute: overture, “Der Hölle Rache,” “Papagena, papageno”
Le Nozze di Figaro: “Non più andrai,” “Non so più,” “La Vendetta,” “Sextet”
Don Giovanni: “La ci darem la mano”
Giacomo Puccini:
Turandot: “Tu Che di gel sei cinta”
La Bohème: “O mimi tu più non torni”
Alfredo Catalani:
La Wally: “Ebben ne andro lontana”
Johann Strauss II:
Die Fledermaus (The Bat): “Mein Herr Marquis,” “Trio,”
Gerónimo Giménez:
Intermezzo from the zarzuela "La boda de Luis Alonso"
Georges Bizet:
Carmen: “Habanera”
Manuel Penella:
El gato montés: “Duett”
Franz Lehár:
The Merry Widow: “Sextet,” “Vilja-Lied"
The evening will close with Tutti: “Brindis” from Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata
Cairo Opera Company singers (in alphabetical order):
Abdel Wahab Elsayed (Bass), Amina Khairat (Soprano), Amr Medhat (Tenor), Aya Shalaby (Soprano), Dalia Farouk (Soprano), Elhamy Amin (Baritone), Emad Adel (Baritone), Ezzat Ghanem (Bass), Gihan Fayed (Soprano), Hala El Shaboury (Mezzo), Ibrahim Nagui (Tenor), Iman Mostafa (Soprano), Injy Mohsen (Soprano), Jacqueline Rafick (Soprano), Jolie Faizy (Mezzo), Mona Rafla (Soprano), Mostafa Mohamed (Baritone), Neveen Allouba (Soprano), Ramez Labbad (Bass), Rasha Talaat (Soprano), Reda El Wakil (Bass-Baritone), Sara Anani (Soprano), Taheya Shams El-Din (Soprano), Tamer Tawfik (Tenor), Walid Korayem (Tenor)
Cairo Opera Orchestra, conductor: Nayer Nagui
Programme:
22, 23 and 25 September, 8 pm
Cairo Opera House, Main Hall, Zamalek
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