Legendary Lebanese singer Magida Al Roumi opens the 10th Al Ain Classics Festival: She was one of the first modern singers combining western and Arabic classical music. Her voice is desribed beautiful, charismatic and operatic. For her debut in Al Ain, she will bring her own symphony orchestra to the Al Jahili Fort.
Young British star-conductor Daniel Harding leads the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in a programme of three “New World” favourites: Bernstein’s Candide Overture, Gershwin’s jazzy Rhapsody in Blue, performed by the extraordinary Turkish piano virtuoso Fazil Say, and Dvorák’s moving symphonic tribute to the music and people of America, written while the great Czech composer was living in
New York.
An “angel playing”, an “electrifying pianist”- that’s how critics call Ukrainian-born pianist Valentina Lisitsa. 2010 marks the 200th birthday of Chopin and Schumann and Valentina admits to have
a special affinity to Beethoven. Therefore, some of these master’s most emminent masterworks are on the programme of the first piano recital in the Al Jahili Fort’s intimate courtyard. An evening of fire
and romance, of electricity and poetry …
Tradition and youth – masterworks performed by the Salzburg’s Mozarteum Orchestra
will appear both in concert and in opera. Led by young and upcoming conductor David Afkham, the concert programme continues the birthday celebrations with Schumann’s piano concerto with young
Palestine pianist Saleem Abboud Ashkar. In the second half: Mozart’s uncomparable Jupiter Symphony.
Mozart’s opera “La Finta Giardiniera“ (The Pretended Girl Gardener) is produced by ADACH and an international opera production team featuring a renowned Italian singer cast. Mozart composed the
delightful opera buffa, an Italian comic opera, for the Carnival season in Munich. Sung in original Italian with Arabic subtitles, an Arabic actor will introduce the story in Arabic – in collaboration with
KALIMA, the translation initiative of ADACH.
Reserved for ladies only: Mozart’s opera “La Finta Giardiniera“ (The Pretended Girl Gardener) is produced by ADACH and an international opera production team featuring a renowned Italian
singer cast. Mozart composed the delightful opera buffa, an Italian comic opera, for the Carnival season in Munich. Sung in original Italian, with Arabic subtitles, an Arabic actor will introduce the
story in Arabic – in collaboration with KALIMA, the translation initiative of ADACH.
The choral and orchestral forces of Venice’s historic opera house, under noted American conductor John Fiore, are featured in stirring selections from the thrilling world of Italian opera.
