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
Comic opera style was widely imitated by their contemporaries (for example, in "Dorothy"), and the creators themselves wrote works in this style with other collaborators in the 1890s. None of these, however, had lasting popularity, leaving the Savoy Operas as practically the sole representatives of the genre surviving today. Only recently, some of these other English light operas have begun to be explored by scholars and to receive performances and recordings. The first opera presented in Russia, in 1731, was a comic opera (or "commedia per musica"), "Calandro", by an Italian composer, Giovanni Alberto Ristori. It was followed by the comic operas