Sultana of Cadiz is first Palestinian opera production
(August 2009)
After years of preparatory work, young people from the Ramallah Music School, together with children’s choirs from the vicinity, gave the premiere of the opera The Sultana of Cadiz, prepared specially under the musical direction of project director and initiator Anna-Sophie Brüning. Three sell-out performances were applauded by prominent political and cultural figures, and a message of support from Daniel Barenboim was read out at the premiere. The Andalusian Barenboim-Said Foundation, which also co-ordinates the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, guaranteed the funding of this unprecedented and courageous cultural project.
The Sultana of Cadiz is a two-act 90-minute opera for and with children, taking the form of a pasticcio built from partly unknown music by the Basque Classical composer Juan Crisostomo Arriaga, a prodigy who died at the age of 20. The award-winning playwright Paula Fünfeck wrote the Singspiel-like libretto, versifying the new song texts based on an Arabic fairy-tale in the manner of the Thousand and One Nights. A film has been made by the Ludwigsburg Film Academy, directed by Elmar Szücs, documenting the genesis of the opera, the political intrigues along the way, and the performances which changed the lives of so many Palestinian children and adults.
The opera is available for performance from Boosey & Hawkes in Arabic, German and English versions.
> Weitere Informationen zum Werk: Die Sultana von Cádiz
Photo: Elmar Szücs
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