Veteran Egyptian musician Omar Khairat will perform at Cairo
Opera House on October 12,13. 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. He 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.
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 fan base. 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
