Umm Kulthum returns to Morocco after 56 years

Umm Kulthum returns to Morocco after 56 years

2024-06-25 00:05:00

Final evening, the Moroccan viewers was handled to a live performance of incomparable artwork, Kawkab Al-Sharq, Umm Kulthum stood excessive on the stage of the Mohammed V Theater, utilizing “holographic” know-how, enchanting the viewers, with out most of them realizing that they have been dwelling along with her, however she nonetheless remained of their reminiscence along with her immortal songs.

The live performance, held inside the framework of the nineteenth Mawazine Competition Rhythms of the World, which began on the twenty first and ended on the twenty ninth of this month, started with the masterpiece “You Are My Life”. Umm Kulthum appeared utilizing “holographic” know-how, and the Mohammed V Theater was full of applause.

In accordance with the organizers, all of the tickets for the live performance have been bought out, so that they determined to carry one other live performance at present (Tuesday).

For regarding an hour and a half, Umm Kulthum sang a group of her most lovely songs, following “You might be my life” she sang passages from the love story, then “One Thousand and One Nights” and “I nonetheless keep in mind” and ended with the ruins.

“We reside in an period that we heard was fantastic, and we have been drawn to it however don’t have any dream of returning to it,” stated a viewer who referred to as herself Sophia. “However because of the development of know-how, the not possible has turn out to be doable,” she added. “It is a terrific occasion.”

Abdul Rahim Al-Idrissi (72), who attended an actual Umm Kulthum live performance 56 years in the past on the similar theater, the Mohammed V Theater, along with his late father, stated: “I used to be 16 years previous following I attended the final Umm Kulthum live performance in Morocco in 1968. I keep in mind each element and all the things that accompanied her occasion at the moment. I evaluate it to this occasion and I do not discover a lot distinction… It is as if time stopped for me.”

He added: “It’s been an impressive and distinctive expertise and I hope it may be prolonged to different deceased artists.”

Mawazine is likely one of the largest music festivals in Morocco and North Africa, organizers stated, with the final version in 2019 attracting greater than 2 million guests.

The competition continues with a program that features a host of Arab, Western and Moroccan artwork stars.

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