Nabila Erian La Traviata in Arabic on the stage of the Khedivial Opera House. She was also the Director of the Cairo Opera Company and the Associate Dean of the Cairo Conservatoire. In 2017, Erian delivered the introductory keynote speech at the La Traviata Met Live transmission at the American University in Cairo. Her repertoire includes most international composers for whom she sang in Italian, French, German and Russian. Those include among others: Puccini's Mme Butterfly, Tosca and La Bohème, Verdi's la Traviata, Aida and Rigoletto, Mozart's Marriage de Figaro, Bastien und Bastienne, and Don Giovanni, Bizet's Carmen, Handel's Oratorios, etc. Erian
The Scarf (opera) The Scarf (opera) The Scarf is a chamber opera in one act by composer Lee Hoiby. The work uses an English libretto by Harry Duncan that is based on the short story "The Witch" by Anton Chekhov. Composed in 1955, the opera premiered on June 20, 1958 at the very first Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy in a production by Gian Carlo Menotti and conducted by Reinhard Peters. The cast included Patricia Neway as Miriam, John McCollum as Reuel, and Richard Cross as the Postman. The work received its American premiere the following year at the New York