Neha Patil (Editor)

Damascus Opera House

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Address
  
Opened
  
7 May 2004

Damascus Opera House

Type
  
Multipurpose performing-arts building

Capacity
  
Opera Theater – 1,331Drama Theater – 663Multipurpose Hall – 237

Similar
  
Azm Palace, House of Saint Ananias, National Museum of Damascus, Umayyad Square, Tekkiye Mosque

Damascus opera house


The Damascus Opera House (officially Dar al-Assad for Culture and Arts) (Arabic: دار الأسد للفنون والثقافة‎‎) is the national opera house of Syria. Inaugurated on 7 May 2004, it is located in central Damascus, on the Umayyad Square.

Contents

Syria welcoming president bashar al assad in the damascus opera house


History

Damascus already had an opera house from the 1900s. During the French colonial period Shahbandar's People's Party held their inaugural meeting at the old Damascus Opera House in 1925. Hafez al-Assad planned the opera house early in his rule, but work did not recommence until the 2000s and Assad's son Bashar and his wife, opened Al Assad opera house in 2004.

The new Damascus Opera House

The opera house is a five-level building that includes an opera theatre, a drama theatre and a multipurpose hall.

Damascus Opera Company

Aside from visiting foreign artists, the company produced The Marriage of Figaro in 2010. The current (2011) director of the House and Company is Maria Arnaout, producer of Gianni Schicchi, An international Oriental Music Festival and a Syrian version of the musical Oliver! casting orphans after the model of El Sistema's work with street children in Venezuela. So far the opera house has not included in its programmes opera in Arabic or art song in Arabic.

References

Damascus Opera House Wikipedia


Similar Topics