The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra's recent Egyptian concerts made a delicious musical cocktail, imaginatively conceived, brilliantly performed, and very exciting, writes Amal Choucri Catta
Cairo Opera House was full for this concert, given (...)
Amal Choucri Catta enjoys Winds in the Void, presented at the Cairo Opera House by the Zèrcher Ballet
The music of Johann Sebastian Bach seems to be in vogue with contemporary choreographers: a few weeks ago the German Mannheim Ballet Company (...)
Amal Choucri Catta celebrates the career of pan-piper at the Cairo Opera House
Half a century ago he was the greatest pan piper in the world. Tall, elegant and ever so handsome, he had dark hair that never wanted to stay in place and a smile that (...)
Amal Choucri Catta hails the star-crossed lovers of Verona
Romeo and Juliet, by Cairo Opera Ballet Company, Cairo Opera Orchestra, cond. Ivan Filev, artistic dir. Erminia Kamel, dir. Abdel-Moniem Kamel. Venue: Main Hall Cairo Opera House, 30 January (...)
Amal Choucri Catta enjoys the moments of comic relief amid the atmosphere of doom and gloom
Un ballo in maschera, Giuseppe Verdi, performed by Cairo Opera Company Orchestra, Choir and Ballet Company. Dir. Gihan Morsi; cond. Nader Abbasi; choir (...)
Erotic video gimmicks notwithstanding, Amal Choucri Catta finds herself enraptured
--Swiss Tales 2008-Piano Seven,� opening concert of the Twentieth Jubilee of the Cairo Opera House. Venue: Cairo Opera House, Main Hall, 13 January, 8pm
Switzerland's (...)
Amal Choucri Catta is transported into the esoteric
Ballet Mannheim, Germany, presenting Bach's "Goldberg variations", with Horus piano duo. Venue: Main hall, Cairo Opera House 9 to 11 January, Alexandria Opera House 13 January, 8pm
On opening (...)
Despite a tedious New Year's concert, Amal Choucri Catta feels optimistic about the coming months' offerings at the Cairo Opera House
Cairo Opera's main stage was a sad sight that last night of the year. The general mood had been high at the (...)
Amal Choucri Catta does the housework
Solar Son, Camaguey Folkloric Ensemble, Cuba: Dance and song performances, Sayed Darwish Theatre, Alexandria, 17 October, 8 pm, Cairo Opera House, Main Hall, 19 -21 October, 8 pm
On the empty stage, in front of (...)
Tango, bolero and Amal Choucri Catta
Cairo Opera Ballet Company, artistic director Erminia Kamel, Cairo Opera Orchestra conductor Nayer Nagui, presenting "Tango Reve" and "", Cairo Opera House Main Hall, 17 and 18 October, 8 pm, with repeat (...)
Amal Choucri Catta has a long-awaited reunion
Cairo Symphony Orchestra, conductor Ahmed El Saedi, piano soloist Mohamed Saleh, Cairo Opera House Main Hall, 5 October, 9.30 pm
A large number of his old fans were happy to see him again on the Opera's (...)
Amal Choucri Catta revels in symphony
Cairo Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andreas Sporri presenting Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven, Cairo Opera House Main Hall, 29 September, Sayed Darwish Theatre, Alexandria, 30 September, 9.30 pm
Concerts of the (...)
Amal Choucri Catta has one more reunion
Cairo Symphony Orchestra, chief conductor Andreas Spörri, "Carmina Burana" with vocal soloists and A Cappella Choir, Cairo Opera House Main Hall, 22 September, 9.30 pm
"Carmina Burana" is no newcomer to the (...)
The Cairo Opera's latest newcomer speaks to Amal Choucri Catta
Cairo Symphony Orchestra, in its 49th Season, is once again promoting closer cooperation with foreign musicians; the appointment of as Chief Conductor of the Egyptian Symphonic Ensemble, (...)
Amal Choucri Catta is disappointed
"If clouds could speak", Egyptian Modern Dance Theatre, director Walid Aouni, Cairo Opera House Main Hall, 8 and 9 September, 9 pm
Richard Wagner would not have been very happy with Walid Aouni's latest version of (...)
Flamenco, the Opera and the return of Amal Choucri Catta
"Flamenco Republic", Cairo Opera House Main Hall, 5-6 September; Sayed Darwish Theatre, Alexandria, 8 September, 9 pm
The lights stayed low while the four couples began with a lively tap-tap (...)
Amal Choucri Catta with yet another of the opera's guiding lights
's name is well-known to all opera and music lovers, whether as Egypt's unmatched clarinet virtuoso, as professor of clarinet at the Cairo Conservatoire or as director of the Artistic (...)
Amal Choucri Catta finds the grace of movement in conversation with
It is clear that of the 58 years of his life, , Egypt's unique dance master, choreographer and chairman of the National Cultural Centre, the greatest part was spent in opera houses, (...)
Steven Lloyd speaks to Amal Choucri Catta
When Steven Lloyd walked onto the podium of Cairo Opera's Main Stage for his first concert as principal conductor and musical director of the Cairo Symphony Orchestra in September 2005, little did the (...)
Amal Choucri Catta takes issue with the Ethiopian princess's latest appearance
Opera Aida by Giuseppe Verdi, with Cairo Opera Company, Cairo Opera Orchestra, Cairo Opera Choir and Cairo Opera Ballet; choir master Aldo Magnato, director Maurizio di (...)
Amal Choucri Catta plays Sheherazade
Cairo Opera Ballet Company performing "One thousand and one nights", by Fikret Amirov, choreography by Naila Nazirova, artistic director Erminia Kamel, with Cairo Opera Orchestra, conductor Ivan Filev, artistic (...)
Amal Choucri Catta takes stock of the most noteworthy concerts of the last three weeks
Cairo Symphony Orchestra: three concerts with conductors Marc Kissoczy, Jan Stulen and Alain Paris, Cairo Opera House Main Hall, 26 May, 3 June and 9 June, (...)
Amal Choucri Catta goes Nordic
"If clouds could speak": opening performance of the eighth festival for dance theatre, choreographer and director Walid Aouni, music by Richard Wagner, for the Egyptian Modern Dance Company, Cairo Opera House Main (...)
Amal Choucri Catta appreciates her mother tongue
Operetta "The merry widow" by Franz Lehar, in Arabic. Cairo Opera Company, A Cappella Choir, Cairo Opera Orchestra and Ballet company, Conductor Nader Abbassi, director Abdel Moneim Kamel, (...)
Amal Choucri Catta looks heavenward
Gala Concert, Cairo Opera Orchestra, conductor , with five finalists of the Swedish International Singing Competition "Stenhammar", Cairo Opera House Main Hall, 11 May, 9pm
This concert was a rare event. Opera at (...)