Moscow City Ballet at DUCTAC

Presented by Art For All UAE, the acclaimed Moscow City Ballet return to DUCTAC after sell out shows of the Nutcracker in 2014. They start off the 2015 festive season in traditional style with two stunning adaptations of ballet classics: Giselle and Sleeping Beauty.

Founded by former Bolshoi Ballet soloist and choreographer Victor Smirnov-Golovanov, Moscow City Ballet are one of Russia’s most successful touring companies.

Giselle is a heady mix of romance and tragedy. The powerful story of a young girl who falls desperately in love with the handsome Count Albrecht. Upon discovering he is engaged to another, the love affair ends in the ultimate tragedy and continues, hauntingly, beyond the grave.

Age Limit: 3+ years old

Dastan Ensemble in Dubai on 4th of December

Dastan Ensemble will play traditional Persian music at DUCTAC in Dubai on 4th of December. The Ensemble won the title “Musical Shock“ in Le Monde and received the 2003 Best Music of the Year Award from the French Ministry of Culture. This concert is part of Emirates NBD Classics Season IV.

Italian Opera Gala in Dubai

Italian Opera Gala

Il giorno 7 Novembre 2015, nella bella cornice dell’One & Only Royal Mirage un bellissimo concerto.

Performances di prestigio con artisti di fama internazionale che portano la splendida musica  lirica Italiana sui palcoscenici dei teatri piu’ famosi nel mondo.

Il concerto, organizzato dal Dubai Concert Committee ( DCC) e MPremiere, con il Patrocinio dell’Ambasciata d’Italia in UAE e del Consolato Generale d’Italia in Dubai,   promette di regalare  due ore deliziose durante le quali potremo ascoltare brani famosi tratti da opere altrettanto famose, magistralmente interpretati dalla Soprano Susanna Branchini, dalla Mezzosoprano Renata Lamanda e dal Tenore Massimiliano Pisapia, accompagnati al pianoforte dal Maestro Marco Boemi.
Il concerto inizia alle ore 20.

Yuri Bashmet and Moscow Soloists Live in Dubai on 25th of October/ Юрий Башмет

Dream Factory Events under the patronage of the Embassy of Russian Federation in UAE and Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Dubai and Northern Emirates announced an exclusive concert of the Viola Virtuoso and Grammy Award Winner Yuri Bashmet & Moscow Soloists Chamber Orchestra in UAE on October 25 and 26. Maestro will perform some outstanding masterpieces of his repertoire at The Music Hall in Zabeel Saray in Dubai on October 25 and at The Auditorium in Emirates Palace Hotel on October 26, 2015.
His performance would include Little String Serenade of Mozart, Concertino in a Minor for Viola and strings of Paganini, Five Romanian Folk dances for strings of Bartok, and many other famous pieces of Grieg, Britten, Stravingsky, Takemitsu, Schnittke, P. Heindrich.

The Music Hall in Zabeel Saray Hotel in Dubai on October 25
Doors open at 8:30pm
Concert timings: 9 pm till 11 pm with one intermission.

Dream Factory Events под патронажем Посольства и Консульства РФ в ОАЭ представляют 2 концерта Легенды Мировой Музыки, Народного артиста России, лауреата Грэмми Юрия Башмета и камерного ансамбля «Солисты Москвы» 25 и 26 октября 2015 года в ОАЭ.
Маэстро исполнит самые блистательные произведения шедевров мировой классики XVII–XXI столетий, от Баха и Моцарта до Шнитке и Стравинского.

Первый концерт пройдет в Дубае 25 октября 2015 в «Мьюзик Холл» в отеле Zabeel Saray.
Второй концерт состоится в Абу Даби 26 октября 2015 в The Auditorium, Emirates Palace Hotel.

Yuri Bashmet

Bavarian Radio Piano Quartet in Dubai this Friday

Milana Chernyavska (piano)

Bavarian Radio Piano Quartet will perform at One & Only Royal Mirage Hotel in Dubai at 20.00 on Friday, 9th of October in the concert organized by Dubai Concert Committee.

Piano Quartet consists of the following soloists and members of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra:

Daniel Nodel (Violin)

Benedict Hames (Viola)

Hanno Simons (Cello)

Milana Chernyavska (Piano)

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra is one of the leading German orchestras and enjoys an excellent reputation worldwide. The orchestra was ranked no. 6 among the “The world’s greatest orchestras” by the British music magazine “Gramophone” in 2008, and no. 4 by the Japanese music magazine “Mostly Classic” in 2010.

Besides many performances and recordings across Germany, high profile concert tours have become an important part of the activities of the orchestra. Tours have taken the orchestra to almost every European country, to Asia as well as to North and South America. Its regular appearances include New York’s Carnegie Hall and the renowned concert halls in Japan. Since 2004, the orchestra under the direction of its current Chief Conductor, Mariss Jansons, is the orchestra in residence at the Easter Festival in Lucerne.

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra is the only German orchestra with which Leonard Bernstein worked regularly for many years. Its renowned chief conductors from Eugen Jochum, Rafael Kubelík, Sir Colin Davis, Lorin Maazel to Mariss Jansons nowadays have contributed enormously to the extraordinarily wide repertoire and impressive sound quality of the orchestra. Its CD recordings have been awarded prestigious prizes such as “ECHO Klassik” or the “Prize of the German CD critics”.

Programme

Gustav Mahler Piano Quartet in A manor

Wolfgang A. Mozart Piano Quartet in E flat major

Intermission

Johannes Brahms Piano Quartet in E flat major

Oud concert at DUCTAC on 6th of November

Charbel Rouhana (Arabic: شربل روحانا‎) was drawn to oud because it reflected the oriental ambience of his homeland Lebanon. In 1990 he won the first prize at the Hirayama Competition in Japan for Best Composition entitled “Hymn of Peace”, in 2000 he won the “Murex d’Or” as the Musician of the year, in 2007 he conducted and arranged the BBC3 World Music Awards winning Album of 2007 “ Al Muwashahat”.

In 2007 Rouhana also formed the Beirut Oriental Ensemble.

Charbel Rouhana is offering an enchanting evening of Arabic classical music at DUCTAC (the Mall of the Emirates) in Dubai on Friday, 6th of November 2015 at 20:00.

Musical performance with special attention to Giuseppe Verdi

Opera Pop at Royal Majlis

Giuseppe Verdi’s Birthday celebration on 10th of October at Emirates Golf Club in Dubai
Musical journey with special attention for Verdi
Opera: Baroque and Arias of the Opera (Verdi, Mozart, Puccini and many others)
Musical from West Side story, Phantom of the Opera
Crossover artists music from Andrea Bocelli, Josh Groban and others.
Evergreens (Andy Williams, Elvis Presley etc.)
Krooners From Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Michael Bubble and others

Performers :
Soprano (Russia) Guzel Teymour
Mezzo-Soprano (South Korea) Jin Soo Young
Tenor (Turkey) Murat Ozturk
Tenor (Belgium) Wim Hoste
Piano (South Korea ) Yi Yoon

Arabian Nights by Story Pocket

An Edinburgh Fringe Festival award winner from Story Pocket Theatre – an innovative new theatre group under the patronage of Children’s Laureate and writer of War Horse Michael Morpurgo comes this re-telling of the Arabian Nights. Through dance, puppetry and drama, all the family will meet Sheherazade, the greatest storyteller of them all. She has a feast of adventures and fantasies to tell involving genies, villains, heroes and princesses. You get to enjoy Ali Baba’s encounter with the 40 thieves along with Aladdin and his lamp, the Little Beggar and the Fisherman and the Genie. Be transported to a wonderful world of mysterious marvels with music, madcap comedy, puppetry and theatrical magic, in Story Pocket Theatre’s exciting new version of Arabian Nights. Suitable for ages five and up.

An Eid in Dubai 2015 official event, presented by DUCTAC.

Event Language: English

Age Limit: admit to 5+ years old

City break in Istanbul

A lovely garden cafe in Cihangir

Curious about numerous cats on the streets of Istanbul

Visit to Istanbul Modern

Hopping from the European side to the Asian side by ferry

Learning Spanglish with Dora on the Emirates flight back to Dubai.

Indian classical music concert at DUCTAC on 2nd of October

Vishwa Mohan Bhatt also known as V.M.Bhatt

Indian slide-guitar virtuoso, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt makes a rare visit to the Centerpoint Theatre, DUCTAC, Mall of the Emirates in Dubai on Friday, 2nd of October. The concert is part of the Emirates NBD Classics season IV.

Whilst Bhatt has spent a lifetime playing his chosen instrument, the mohan veena, he is best remembered in the West for his 1994 Grammy-winning collaborative album, A Meeting By The River, with Ry Cooder.

He has mesmerized the world with his pristine pure, delicate yet fiery music. It is due to Vishwa’s maiden mega effort that he rechristened guitar as MOHAN VEENA, his genius creation and has established it at the top most level in the mainstream of Indian Classical Music scenario, thereby proving the essence of his name VISHWA (meaning the world) and MOHAN (meaning charmer) and indeed, a world charmer he is.

Being the foremost disciple of Pt. Ravi Shankar, Vishwa Mohan belongs to that elite body of musicians which traces its origin to the Moughal emperor Akbar’s court musician TANSEN and his guru the Hindu Mystic Swami Haridas.