Carmen (1915 Cecil B. DeMille film) so DeMille instructed his screenwriter brother William to base his scenario on the public domain novella "Carmen" by Prosper Mérimée. The novella's Carmen was more wilful and manipulative than the opera version. For instance, William included a cigarette factory fight scene from the book which was not found in the opera. Composer Hugo Riesenfeld arranged the orchestral score, his first of many for film, which "was" based on that of Bizet's opera. It was performed at the premiere and other prestigious screenings. There have been two restorations of Riesenfeld's score: the first was by Gillian Anderson, recorded with the London
Opera in Arabic novel of the same name. Dutch composer Michiel Borstlap was commissioned by the Emir of Qatar to write the opera "Ibn Sina", based on the life of Avicenna, performed in Qatar in 2003. "Dream She Is," an arabic opera monodrama for woman's voice (sung by Fadia Tomb El Hage), has been composed in 2008 by Joelle Khoury, a Lebanese composer. First played in Beirut by the Belgian chamber orchestra "Fragments ensemble", it was also performed May 4, 2012, at Esterházy Palace, Eisenstadt, Austria, by Kremerata Baltica (founded by Gidon Kremer in 1997) and in Switzerland, by TaG ensemble. Among composers