CAIRO OPERA COMPANY  Franz Lehar's the merry widow and Verdi's LA traviata were performed in Arabic. Atraining Centre was founded where Gilan Rathie, was among the most eminents voice professors, coaching and teaching many who were later to become renowed opera singer. Graduates of this Centre formed the nucleus of the present Cairo Opera Company. In 1968, the Company with the Cairo Opera Ballet Company, The Cairo Opera Choir and the Cairo Symnhony Orchestra staged its first production Gluck's ORFEG, starring: Ratiba El Hefny, Violeffe Makar, Amira Kamel, Ghalia Rashed, Awatef El Sharkawy., Rejina Youssef and Nabila Erlan with conductor Ahmed Ebeid and director Viffono Feorefto. Local performers continued to present international operas including a number of male opera singers such as Hassan Kamy, Gaber El Beltagui. Sobhi Bedair, Redo El Wakil, Yousef Sabagh, Redo El Shenawy, Clude Rathle among others. Today, the Cairo Opera Company
consists of 38 soloists such as Neveen Allouba, Iman Moustafa, Tahya Shams
El Din, Raouf Zaidan, Gihan Fayed, Mona Rafla , Nesreen Roushdy , Walid
Koraym, Mohammed Abu
The Cairo Opera Company's repertoire consists of: Orfeo, Aida , the Dancing Years, La Boheme, II Trovatore , Cavalleria Rusficana , Pagliacci. Rigolefto, Carmen , Tosca , Mme Butterfly, Le Nozze Di Figaro and Don Giovanni. Several of the Company's
members has participated in international opera productions and festivals
and have received numerous prizes and awards.
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