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PHOTO GALLERY: Photos from Virginia Opera's Aida, with Egyptian bass-baritone as Ramfis

All photos by David Polston, courtesy: Virginia Opera

Arsen Krikorian at El-Gomhouria Theatre

Armenian singer Arsen Krikorian to perform folk songs and music on Thursday 6 October

El-Sakia String Orchestra to celebrate Liszt's 200th anniversary

On 18 October El-Sakia String Orchestra will open its new season with music by the great Hungarian composer Franz Liszt

Ehab Abdou returns to El Sawy Culturewheel

Returning to Zamalek's cultural centre, Abdou will bring a blend of new and old tracks in his forthcoming 11 October concert

Afghans rock at first music festival in three decades

Live rock returned to Afghanistan after three long decades on Saturday 1 October, as young men and women cheered and leapt into the air to the sound of heavy bass beats and punk rock

Cairo Opera Orchestra welcomes its new principal conductor

Alexandria-born Nayer Nagui joins orchestra as artistic director and principal conductor

A musical trip through 17th and 18th century Europe with Cairo's German Protestant Church

The concert, to be held on 9 October, will include performances on the harpsichord and the baroque violin

Cairo Opera House to host Mozart and Beethoven symphonies

Cairo Symphony Orchestra to perform works of the great masters on 1 October

Egyptian bass-baritone in Virginia Opera's production of Aida

Ashraf Sewailam’s road to operatic stages throughout the US is inspiring for many Egyptian singers. The renowned bass-baritone talks to Ahram Online about his career and feelings for home

PHOTO GALLERY: Photos from Virginia Opera's Aida, with Egyptian bass-baritone as Ramfis

A spoonful of arias opens the Cairo Opera Company new season

Cairo Opera Company opened new season with a bunch of famous scenes from the best-known world operas

Music magazine 'Discord' to be launched soon

Discord, an English language monthly magazine focusing on music, is keen to scout for hidden talent in Egypt and the region

Perils of youth in the season’s opening of the Cairo Symphony Orchestra

An ecstatic audience filled the hall of the Cairo Opera: regulars thirsty for the classical music of which they had been deprived for the summer together with Japanese supporters of the guest conductor, Hirofumi Yoshida

Egyptian musicians and bands in top 20 of Makshoof Music

Cairokee, Massar Egbari, SimpleXity, Hani Mustafa, are among many artists who made it to the current top 20 of Makshoof Music, part of the TripleW.me, whose 'Home-grown to Hollywood' competition is still accepting entries

Seasonal concerns at the opening of the new orchestral season

The Cairo Symphony Orchestra has only announced the first four concerts of the new season so the audience still awaits a complete programme

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