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Musical performance and the stories behind it. Places and routes for music, to help you shape your day.
5 places · 1 route
Photo: Roland Unger · CC BY-SA 3.0
A whole day, with stops close to each other.
Photo: Roland Unger · CC BY-SA 3.0
A suggested route · Music
For lovers of the golden age: from the home of the Prince of Poets Ahmed Shawki, to Umm Kulthum’s museum in Manial, the Arab Music Institute and Naguib Mahfouz’s world near al-Azhar, ending with a Tanoura night at Wikalat al-Ghouri.
5 places
The life behind one of the Arab world’s most familiar voices
The Umm Kulthum Museum opened in 2001 in a building attached to Manasterly Palace on Rawda Island. Through clothes, photographs, letters, recordings and personal objects, it offers a compact and intimate account of the Star of the East.
Museum · Roda – Manial, Cairo Under review
From trading courtyard to performance venue.
A Mamluk trading courtyard framed by arcades and wooden screens, with performances arranged separately from daytime admission.
Historic house · Al-Azhar, Cairo Under review
A Mamluk hall behind the street façade.
A lofty Mamluk reception hall on Al-Muizz, with wooden screens and a programme associated with the Arab Singing House.
Palace · Al-Gamaliya, Cairo Information reviewed
Cairo, live on stage.
Cairo Opera House is a working performing-arts complex on Gezira, where the experience depends on the day’s concerts, theatre, ballet and exhibitions.
Theatre · Gezira, Cairo Under review
A century of Arab music on Ramses Street.
A historic Arab music venue on Ramses Street housing a theatre, the Mohamed Abdel Wahab Museum and a musical-instrument collection.
Theatre · Ramses, Cairo Under reviewTalk to us
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