German tenor Jonas Kaufman concert at Dubai Opera
On April 6, as part of the White Nights in Dubai music festival, the Dubai Opera will host the only concert by opera singer Jonas Kaufman, Prize laureate Franco Abbiati, performer Don Jose in the opera Carmen, Maurizio in Adrian Lecouvrere and the main role in the opera Don Carlos "Giuseppe Verdi. Musical critics of The New York Times do not skimp on compliments, associating the voice of a native of Munich with "box office success" and call Kaufmann "the most important, universal tenor of his generation." And this is the exact association: the audience was fascinated by his debut performances on the stage of the Bavarian State Opera, the role of Alfredo in La Traviata at the Royal Theater Covent Garden and the part of Sigmund in the Valkyrie by Richard Wagner in the New York Metropolitan Opera.
Tickets for the Jonas Kaufman concert can be bought on the website:
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Passwords and appearances Fashion Forward Dubai
Fashion Forward Dubai Fashion Festival, which will be held from March 23 to 25 in the design district of Dubai, the Dubai Design District, with remarkable activity introduces the modern fashion of the Middle East to the masses. Fashion Forward Dubai, which runs twice a year: in April and October, chose Beirut designer Hussein Bezez, two friends Ahmed El Sayyed and Saleh Al Bannu, representing House of Nomad (Dubai), Mira Hayek (Beirut) as their main characters. jewelry designer Amal Halik, who graduated from the School of Business Administration at American University in Washington, and finally, the famous brand Alessa By Itan Jewels, which became famous for its white gold necklace with diamonds and rubies, diamond rings and pink sapphires.
Christie's auction house will sell the most expensive work "Odyssey of the People" by Ismail Shammut
A painting by a Palestinian artist Ismail Shammut, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Odyssey of the People of 1980 (its length reaches 6 meters)depicting the history of Palestine from 1948 to 1980, will be sold at Christie's in Dubai (tentatively, this lot is estimated at 800-900 thousand dollars), which will be held from March 15 to 19 at the Jumeirah Emirates Towers.
The painting "The Odyssey of the People" has a difficult fate - in 1981 it made a splash in the gallery in Beirut, later went to Damascus, Kuwait and, finally, to Ramallah, where in 2002 after the invasion of the city of Israeli troops was hidden in a pillowcase by the museum director and after that it has not been shown to the public to this day. After the death of the artist Shammut in 2006, his wife Tamam Al-Ahal decided to present the masterpiece "Odyssey of the People" to the audience. Those few who saw him say that the Odyssey of People symbolizes the liberation, hope and faith of people in peace and freedom, the dream of Shammut returning home - during the Arab-Israeli war in 1948 he was forced to flee with his family from Lydda first to the refugee camp of the Palestinian city of Khan Younis (Gaza Strip), then to Egypt, then to Rome, where the artist studied painting. He never managed to return to his homeland.
Inner empire
The exhibition "Act of Creativity: Presentation, Process, Presence" will be held from March 7 to July 29, 2017 at the Manarat Al Saadiyat Exhibition Center with the support of the Guggenheim Museum in Abu Dhabi. Today, contemporary art is of genuine interest, and 29 artists from different countries will undoubtedly heat it up by presenting their archival materials at this exhibition. The organizers do not hide that they consider the exhibition of the British-Indian sculptor, Turner Prize winner Anish Kapoor "My Scarlet Motherland" (2003) to be a very promising exhibition, where you can see a 12-meter circle and 20 tons of a mixture of red wax and petroleum jelly, which the slowly moving steel arrow. The artist is interested in sculpture, which manipulates the viewer's attention through space and time. In no case should one miss the work of Japanese artist Katsuo Shirag Chiinsei Botaichu (1961), Pterodactyl over New York (1962) by French artist Niki de Saint-Fall and, finally, the project of the conceptual artist Rashid Arain "I am the Chakras" - a series of color photographs and 16 red wood discs, which he urged to lower to the Thames in London on February 21, 1970.
You are invited
The concert of German violinist David Garrett and Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili sets the bar high throughout the season. A brilliant duet will perform on April 1 at Dubai Opera. Garrett gained fame at the age of 11, having received the first Stradivarius violin from the hands of German President Richard von Weizsacker. Now, at 36, he is the most successful virtuoso violinist, skillfully mixing classical music with country, jazz and rock. In the wake of crazy success, Garett starred in the melodrama "Paganini: Devil's Violinist" by Bernard Rose, became the face of the collection of fountain pens of the Italian brand Montegrappa, and also perfectly performed a cover version of the ballad "Nothing Else Matters" by Metallica and the hit "We Will Rock" You "Queen. Khatia Buniatishvili owes her world success to her mother, who from three years old taught her child how to play the piano. The 29-year-old pianist performed on the same stage with the Vienna Symphony and London Philharmonic Orchestras, in 2010 she became a laureate of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Awards and was named by the BBC radio “the artist of the new generation”.
