
ALYA AL-SULTANI
Operas
Two Sisters
Two Sisters is a new opera in three acts with English and Arabic libretto, set on a Middle Eastern border. Two Sisters explores important current themes - looking radically at our lives and how we live them; the choice to stay or go; what human resilience looks like; and the bond between women.
The opera has just completed its Britten Pears residency, with a week of valuable R&D to test the graphic score and improvisational communication.
The cast and musicians are:
Dr Corey Mwamba - musical director
To be cast - Maisa
Andrea Cortes-Moreno - Laila
Alya Al-Sultani - Um Laila
Dave Kane - electronics and double bass
Alice Zawadzki - violin
Fatima Lahham - recorders
Charlotte Keeffe - trumpet
Mariam Rezaei - turntables
Robert Mitchell - piano