Veteran Egyptian musician Omar Khairat will perform two
consecutive concerts at Cairo Opera House on May 30,31.
Khairat will present a selection from his most famous
musical compositions, which he presented over the course of his extended
artistic career.
Khairat was a member of the Egyptian band Les Petits Chats,
founded in 1967. They presented Italian, French, and English songs. The band
was immensely popular in the late 1960s and the early 1970s. Khairat is
influenced by different genres of music such as Arabic, European classical,
Egyptian, African, Jazz, Pop, and Blues. He won the Best Musician Award in 1989
from the Egyptian Society for Cinema.
Khairat is a composer that can blend the style of
international symphonies with Egyptian music masterfully. He has composed many
successful music pieces such as “Dameer Abla Hikmat” (Abla Hikmat’s
Conscience), “Wagh el-Kamar” (The Moon's Face) and “Leilet el-Kabd ala Fatma”
(The Night Fatma was Arrested), among others.
Omar Khairat composed the soundtrack of “El-Mamar” (The
Passage), which illustrates one of the most heroic battles ever fought by
Egyptian soldiers. The movie was released in Eid el-Fitr.
Khairat's concerts held in Cairo Opera Houses often witness
extensive turnout from fans.
His music is a kind of fine art that has succeeded in
achieving a huge fanbase. His concerts have become a phenomenon that
attracts attention from fans and followers of fine arts and all his
concerts are fully booked.
One of his most notable innovations during the past period
was the soundtrack for the movie "El-Mammar" [The Passage] starring
Ahmed Ezz and directed by Sherif Arafa, which achieved unprecedented success in
Egypt and the Arab World.
Source: Egypt Today