PERFORMANCE CALENDER SEPTEMBER TO MAY SEPTEMBER 2016 OCTOBER 2016 OCTOBER 2016 29 ROMÉO ET JULIETTE 01 ROMÉO ET JULIETTE 20 LOHENGRIN THU (Romeo and Juliet) SAT (Romeo and Juliet) THU Opera by Richard Wagner Opera by Charles Gounod Opera by Charles Gounod 22 Performed by Richard Wagner 30 Performed by Opéra de Monte-Carlo Performed by Opéra de Monte-Carlo Festival Wels FRI SAT TIER 1 7:00 TIER 1 TIER 1 PM 7:00 The French composer Charles Gounod The French composer Charles Gounod 7:00 Lohengrin, by the famous German PM wrote a sumptuous operatic score for wrote a sumptuous operatic score for PM composer Richard Wagner, is a medieval literature’s most famous love story, literature’s most famous love story, tale about a mysterious knight who Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The lead Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The lead comes in a swan-drawn boat to defend a roles will be sung by two brilliant operatic roles will be sung by two brilliant operatic damsel falsely accused of murder. His only stars: tenor Jean-François Borras and stars: tenor Jean-François Borras and condition is that he must never be asked his soprano Nino Machaidze. soprano Nino Machaidze. name.

06 OMANI WOMEN’S DAY 26 STAGE PRESENTATION THU CELEBRATION WED FREE TICKETED EVENT TIER 3 A unique opportunity to go behind the 7:00 4:00 scenes - revealing the illusions and mysteries Dedicated to the women of Oman, this PM PM of bringing productions to life as ROHM exciting programme features music by the technicians offer a magical, audio visual Royal Oman Symphony Orchestra’s Ladies journey, showing the transformations from Chamber Ensemble and the Palestinian Theatre to Concert Hall and portraying Folklore Group, with a special guest the use of lighting, sound, projections, appearance by . costumes, wigs and make-up to create many different textures and atmospheres.

08 MOHAMMED ASSAF SAT with the Multi-Ethnic Star Orchestra (MESTO) 7:00 TIER 3 PM Mohammed Assaf, the remarkably talented young Palestinian who won the contest in 2013 and continues to thrill audiences with his powerful and entrancing voice, will sing from his popular repertoire of classic Arab songs. PERFORMANCE CALENDER SEPTEMBER TO MAY NOVEMBER 2016 NOVEMBER 2016 DECEMBER 2016 03 MILITARY MUSIC: 26 FAMILY CONCERT 01 MUSIC & DANCE THU OMAN AND THE WORLD SAT Performed by the Orchestra of the THU FROM SOUTH AFRICA COMPLIMENTARY OUTDOOR EVENT Opéra de Lyon and Grégoire Pont TIER 3 04 TIER 4 FRI 4:00 7:00 Hundreds of men and women from Oman’s A new generation of South African PM PM armed forces will march on the Maidan, This wonderful programme of Baroque musicians will perform an electrifying 05 music on the theme of Nature features concert featuring the legendary jazz SAT ROHM’s outdoor courtyard, in dress uniform while playing classic military pieces, with excerpts from Handel’s famous Water Music trumpeter Hugh Masekela, Mahotella 7:00 two guest bands from abroad. and his Music for the Royal Fireworks, as well Queens, a superb women’s band with as Jean Fiery Rebel’s suite, Les Elements. The fast-paced dancing, along with the award- PM parisian illustrator and animator Grégoire winning duo, Mafikizolo. Pont draws whilst the orchestra plays, with the lines being animated in synchronicity with the music. 10 ANA MOURA 03 JIHAD AKL THU Fado Concert SAT COMPLIMENTARY OUTDOOR EVENT TIER 3 7:00 7:00 Virtuosic Lebanese violinist, Jihad Akl, PM There is no other fado voice like Ana a master of mood and drama with a Moura’s. A voice that traipses freely PM very distinctive sound, creates a unique through tradition, but that also takes time experience with the exotic notes of to flirt elegantly with pop music, to broaden the oriental violin. A truly memorable the scope of this song form in a performance on the Maidan, ROHM’s highly personal way. outdoor courtyard.

24 DON GIOVANNI 08 BEETHOVEN’s 9th THU Opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart THU SYMPHONY Performed by Opéra de Lyon Performed by RAI National Symphony 27 TIER 1 Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Choir SUN 7:00 In this famous masterpiece by Wolfgang PM TIER 3 Amadeus Mozart, comedy and melodrama 7:00 Symphony No. 9, Op. 125 by Ludwig van PM blend with supernatural elements. The story is based on the legend of Don Juan, a Beethoven is considered to be one of callous seducer of women. the greatest compositions in the Western music tradition. The sublime ‘Ode to Joy’, a celebrated feature of this famous work, is sung by four superb soloists, with the choir and orchestra conducted by James Conlon. PERFORMANCE CALENDER SEPTEMBER TO MAY DECEMBER 2016 JANUARY 2017 JANUARY 2017 15 ANNA KARENINA 05 CELEBRATING OMAN 19 EUGENE ONEGIN THU Performed by the Eifman Ballet of THU The Great Journey THU Opera by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky St. Petersburg New ROHM production Performed by The Moscow State 16 TIER 3 06 COMPLIMENTARY OUTDOOR EVENT 21 Stanislavsky and Nemirovich- FRI FRI SAT Danchenko Music Theatre, Russia Based on Leo Tolstoy’s renowned 1877 Designed by Paolo Dalla Sega and TIER 1 7:00 novel, Anna Karenina, with music by 07 Namaste Group, this show presented on PM SAT Tchaikovsky, ROHM’s Maidan is dedicated to Oman’s 7:00 n Tchaikovsky’s famous work, Eugene this stunning ballet is performed in a PM 17 Renaissance with special storytelling, Onegin, a magnificent opera of love and remarkably impressive manner, vividly featuring artists and performers from Oman regret, wonderful melodies and heart- SAT 7:00 portraying the essential nuances of the and around the world. rending drama combine to open a window PM 4:00 novel. on the Russian soul. PM

20 DHAFER YOUSSEF 11 PLÁCIDO DOMINGO 26 MOHAMMED ABDOU TUE TIER 3 WED In Concert THU TIER 1 TIER 1 Dhafer Youssef, a widely acclaimed oud 27 The great star Mohammed Abdou will 7:00 player, vocalist and composer, comes from 7:00 After his stellar performances in ROHM’s FRI perform his most popular and special song PM a long line of muezzins in a Tunisian fishing PM 2011 Inaugural Season, Plácido and Arabian Tarab in a wonderful evening village. Youssef’s unique style combines Domingo returns to sing in a wonderful gala at the stage of ROHM. world music and jazz influences with Arab concert with the Philharmonic Orchestra of 7:00 lyricism. Brescia and Bergamo Festival conducted PM by Eugene Kohn.

31 A BROADWAY GALA 13 Plácido DOMINGO SAT WITH SIMON KEENLYSIDE FRI CONDUCTS THE ROYAL TIER 4 OMAN SYMPHONY 6:30 7:00 PM IIn an unforgettable gala concert, some PM ORCHESTRA of the world’s favourite songs from TIER 1 great Broadway musicals are sung by the renowned English baritone, Simon Maestro Domingo will conduct the Royal Keenlyside. The PKF-Prague Philhamonia will Oman Symphony Orchestra in a sparkling be conducted by David Charles Abell. evening of beautiful symphonic works. PERFORMANCE CALENDER SEPTEMBER TO MAY FEBRUARY 2017 FEBRUARY 2017 MARCH 2017 02 KULTHUMIYAT 16 MADELEINE PEYROUX 03 ANNA NETREBKO THU with Mai Farouk THU TIER 3 FRI AND YUSIF EYVAZOV TIER 3 TIER 1 7:00 American jazz singer, songwriter, and ROHM’s annual Kulthumiyat honours the 7:00 guitarist, Madeleine Peyroux is especially 7:30 Anna Netrebko, one of greatest sopranos PM great Umm Kulthum known as ‘The Star PM notable for her wonderful vocal style, PM of our time, is renowned for her beautiful, of the East’ and widely regarded as the which has been compared with that of the distinctive voice, and her alluring elegance greatest Arab singer in history. Egyptian famous blues singer, Billie Holiday. Peyroux’s on stage. This anthology of great arias is not singer Mai Farouk masterfully interprets most famous album, Careless Love sold over to be missed. Appearing with Netrebko the some of the Diva’s most memorable songs. a million copies. Azerbaijani tenor, Yusif Eyvazov.

09 L’ITALIANA IN ALGERI 18 IGUDESMAN & JOO: 16 THE OPERA! THU (The Italian Girl in Algiers) SAT AND NOW MOZART THU A new co-production by ROHM and Opera by TIER 4 Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía Valencia 12 Performed by Opera di Firenze 18 TIER 3 SUN 4:00 SAT TIER 1 Aleksey Igudesman and Hyung-ki Joo PM This new operatic production presents are highly creative musicians who have 19 a fresh take on the history of this great Rossini’s sparkling and fast-paced opera taken the world by storm with their unique SUN art. Young singers from the Centre de weaves a madcap story full of twists theatrical shows, which combine comedy 7:00 Perfeccionament Placido Domingo sing PM and turns in this comedic adventure with classical music and popular culture. set in a land of magnificent palaces, 7:30 well-known arias of the great composers. swashbuckling pirates and lavish harems. PM An impressive cast of Rossinian singers with Bruno Campanella conducting. 11 FAMILY CONCERT 23 WEST SIDE STORY 23 QASIDAT AL BURDAH SAT Performed by Orchestra and Chorus THU Musical by Leonard Bernstein THU The Poem of the Mantle set to music Opera di Firenze 24 TIER 3 World Premiere TIER 4 TIER 3 4:00 FRI Set in the West Side of New York City in the late 1950s, West Side Story is an energetic, 7:30 PM A special family programme with music This poem is an ode in praise of the Prophet 25 widely-acclaimed, melodramatic musical PM from the greatly loved comic opera, The Muhammad (PBUH) who is said to have SAT loosely based on the feuding theme in Barber of Seville, by the famous nineteenth- cured the poet of paralysis by appearing Shakespeare’s famous play, Romeo and century Italian composer Gioachino to him in a dream and wrapping him 7:00 Juliet. Bernstein’s masterpiece will be Rossini. The opera, in concertante style, in a mantle (cloak). This famous work is PM performed with the original Broadway will be performed in a shortened version recited with a large chorus, orchestra and choreography by Jerome Robbins. by the young singers of the Accademia singers featuring unique scenography with dell’Opera di Firenze. calligraphic designs illustrating the verses. PERFORMANCE CALENDER SEPTEMBER TO MAY MARCH 2017 APRIL 2017 APRIL 2017 25 AMIR ELSAFFAR 01 FAMILY CONCERT 20 PIPE ORGAN SYMPOSIUM SAT AND OMAR BASHIR SAT with THU FREE TICKETED EVENT TIER 3 and Shayma Al Mughairy This Symposium complements the 7:30 TIER 4 7:30 Amir ElSaffar, a renowned Iraqi-American programme of the concert which illustrates PM 4:00 PM musician who plays the trumpet along with In a programme specially designed the four major periods of organ music – the PM Arab instruments and sings jazz as well as for families and children, I Solisti Veneti Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern traditional Iraqi maqam, will perform in performs The Four Seasons by Antonio - with experts explaining and musicians the first half of the concert, while with the Vivaldi, with a beautiful violin concerto demonstrating the changing role and styles acclaimed Iraqi oud virtuoso, Omar Bashir depicting each season. A skilful Omani of organ music. will play in the second half. sand-painting artist Ms. Shayma Al Mughairy will produce amazing works of art with sand on stage. 28 BRASS INSTRUMENTS 06 GISELLE 22 PIPE ORGAN CONCERT TUE PRESENTATION THU Performed by American Ballet SAT Organ music through the eras TIER 3 FREE TICKETED EVENT Theatre 07 TIER 3 4:00 Learn about and experience all the FRI 7:30 The annual concert dedicated to the PM different members of the brass family, from Giselle, the quintessential Romantic ballet, PM impressive ‘King of Instruments’, the the very smallest trumpet to the very large 7:30 is performed in a universally acclaimed magnificent ROHM pipe organ, will present tuba. PM production. America Ballet Theatre brings music from the four ages of music – the Baroque, Romantic, Classical and Modern 08 world renowned artists to the stage for this magnificent ballet. Giselle transformed the eras. SAT dance world when it was first performed in 4:00 Paris in 1841 and remains at the centre of PM the classical repertoire.

30 THE FOUR SEASONS 15 THE SWINGLE SINGERS 27 THE ALEXANDROV THU BY SAT A cappella at its best THU RED ARMY CHORUS Performed by I Solisti Veneti conducted TIER 4 TIER 3 by Claudio Scimone 4:00 The renowned London septet’s superb a 7:30 TIER 3 PM 7:30 Founded close to a century ago, the PM cappella sound is innovative, light and PM Russian Red Army Chorus is now globally inspiring. The repertoire of this versatile One of the world’s most popular chamber popular and includes soloists, an orchestra ensemble has grown over the past half- orchestras performs the iconic Baroque and two ballet corps. It is the most century to include a great variety of music, masterwork, by the famous prestigious and famous chorus in Russia. The Four Seasons as well as new and original songs. Venetian composer Antonio Vivaldi, in which four memorable violin concertos depict the seasons of the year. Pricing

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