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 Mandarin's Son The Mandarin's Son The Mandarin's Son ("Сын мандарина" in Cyrillic; "Syn mandarina" in transliteration) is comic opera in one act by César Cui, composed in 1859. The libretto, which includes spoken dialogue, was written by Viktor Krylov. No small influence for this work came from the French composer Daniel Auber, particularly his "Le cheval de bronze", which had a similar setting, and was being performed in Saint Petersburg at the time. Cui dedicated this opera to his bride, Mal'vina Bamberg. (They had married the previous year.) The orchestration is credited to Mily Balakirev. The first performance of "The Mandarin's Son"