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 Parlour reviewer in "Opera" magazine dismissed the music as "feeble in content, too long, and mis-timed in its relation to the dramatic action". The BBC, broadcasting a recording made at the Odeon Theatre, Llandudno, in November of the same year, described the première as "highly successful", and said that the opera, despite being Williams' first, displays a "confident professionalism and the theatrical awareness". The Parlour The Parlour is the only opera by the Welsh composer Grace Williams; a comic opera in one act, it is based on a short story by Guy de Maupassant. Although written in 1961, it was not