Wah, Habib Riziek tambah betah On 24 February 2018 at 13:42, Sunny ambon [email protected] [GELORA45] < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Para Ulama dan anggota presidium MUI serta petinggi negara kalau mau > nonton opera bisa di Arab Saudi, jadi tidak perlu ke Italy. Apakah NKRI > sudah punya opera house? > > > > http://www.arabnews.com/node/1252501/saudi-arabia > > > Saudi Arabia First Saudi opera house to open in Jeddah > > AISHA FAREED | *Published — *Friday 23 February 2018 > > AddThis Sharing Buttons > > > In this file photo, musicians perform at the Royal Opera House in Muscat > during a women's celebration in Oman. Saudi Arabia will soon have its own > opera house, to be located in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah. (Photo > courtesy of the Royal Opera House in Muscat) > > > JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia’s first opera house is set to open in the Red Sea > port city of Jeddah, Ahmed Al-Khatib, chairman of the General Entertainment > Authority (GEA), announced on Thursday. > The announcement was part of the launch of the 2018 entertainment calendar > at the Four Seasons Hotel in Riyadh, where Al-Khatib revealed a budget of > $64 billion for the entertainment sector over the coming decade. More than > 5,000 events in 56 cities in the Kingdom are planned for 2018. > Al-Khatib told Reuters last April of Saudi Arabia’s plan to open “a > world-class opera house” as part of the Kingdom’s entertainment reforms.. > The Saudi General Culture Authority will handle the establishment of the > new opera house, Al-Khatib, who declined to give further information, told > Arab News. > The General Culture Authority could not be immediately reached for comment. > According to Reuters, the opera house to be completed around 2022. > Speaking to Arab News, Sultan Al-Bazie, former president of the Saudi > Arabian Society for Culture and Arts, described the announcement as a > significant step toward enriching the Kingdom’s cultural scene and said it > deserved “a warm welcome.” > Al-Bazie wondered, however, about the fate of the Royal Arts Complex and > whether the opera house would be a substitute for it. > In 1869 the Egyptian Khedivial Opera House in Cairo became the first opera > house in Africa and the Middle East. Designed by architects Pietro Avoscani > (from Livorno) and Rossi, the opera house was built on the orders of > Khedive Ismail to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal. > In 2011, Oman opened the Royal Opera House in Muscat becoming the second > Arab and first Gulf country to have an opera house. Other Gulf countries > such as Dubai and Kuwait later opened opera houses. > > > > >
