Great Hall, Bibliotheca Alexandrina (12 Sep); All Saints' Cathedral, Cairo (13 Sep), Alexandria and Cairo
With
Nayer Nagui (conductor); Dina Iskander (soprano), Thalie Knights (mezzo-soprano), Aleksandar Stefanoski (bass), Reham Mahmoud (viola); Bibliotheca Alexandrina Choir (Donia Akram Deghedy, chorus master), Orchestra and Youth Orchestra
In collaboration with
the Australian Embassy in Egypt; the Bibliotheca Alexandrina
About this concert
The Australian composer Lee Bradshaw wrote his Requiem “For those left behind” for those who grieve. Its world première, with the Australian Embassy in Egypt, joined the Cairo Celebration Choir with the Bibliotheca Alexandrina’s orchestra, youth orchestra and choir under Nayer Nagui: in the Great Hall of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina on 12 September and at All Saints’ Cathedral, Cairo, on 13 September.
Programme
Work
Lee Bradshaw, Requiem "For those left behind"
About the music
Lee Bradshaw, Requiem “For those left behind”
Written in 2024 by the Melbourne composer Lee Bradshaw, whose opera Zarqa Al Yamama was the first opera staged in Saudi Arabia.
Described as the first Australian classical work premiered in Egypt, in the year of the 75th anniversary of Australian–Egyptian diplomatic relations.
