Organization

Festival d'Aix en Provence

Conductor

Kanako Abe

Stage director

Laila Soliman

Set designer

Bissane Al Charif

Video designer

Costume designer

Lies Van Assche

Singer

Nai Barghouti

Woman

Dima Orsho

Muziektheater Transparant

Opera Ballet Vlaanderen

Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg

Royal Opera House

Orchestra

Ensemble Zar

Concertgebouw Brugge

De Singel

English

Arabic

Woman At Point Zero

Aix-en-Provence

France

Public

Private

French

Approved

Woman at Point Zero @AIX 2022

[ WOMAN AT POINT ZERO ] ENTRETIEN AVEC LA COMPOSITRICE BUSHRA EL-TURK

Woman at Point Zero El-Turk

An Egyptian woman awaits on death row: she killed her pimp in self-defence and is therefore about to be hanged. Ferdaous – whose name in Arabic means “paradise” – recounts her exemplary story from hell: it is a story of a woman who, since her earliest childhood, has suffered all possible forms of male domination and exploitation, including prostitution. Inspired by the acclaimed and cutting novel by Nawal El Saadawi, a leading advocate of women's rights in Egypt, Woman at Point Zero is led by four women artists – composer Bushra El-Turk, stage director Laila Soliman, writer Stacy Hardy and film director Aida Elkashef – who are eager to bring new women’s voices in opera and, in so doing, to reinvent opera’s form and language. Empowerment, sisterhood, and a liberating humour are the ingredients of this multimedia opera, which draws on diverse musical influences from Europe to Asia and the Middle East. It is supported by enoa, the European network of opera academies, and has been awarded the FEDORA Opera Prize 2021.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble

Co-Producer