All posts by Nélida Nassar

Art of Plant Sculpture: Danya Ahmed and Abdallah Kassem

Nélida Nassar   04.10.2016 A sense of rebirth surrounds the city of Beirut as the Spring season awakens. Danya Ahmed and Abdallah Kassem both plant artists experiment with the plants and flowers…

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Art of Plant Sculpture: Danya Ahmad and Abdallah Kassem

Nélida Nassar   04.10.2016 A sense of rebirth surrounds the city of Beirut as the Spring season awakens. Dania Ahmed and Abdallah Kassem both plant artists experiment with the plants and flowers…

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Art of Plant Sculpture: Dania Ahmad and Abdallah Kassem

Nélida Nassar   04.10.2016 A sense of rebirth surrounds the city of Beirut as the Spring season awakens. Dania Ahmed and Abdallah Kassem both plant artists experiment with the plants and flowers…

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Donizetti’s Messa da Requiem Baroque and Di Capella Music Unwrapped

Nélida Nassar   04.06.2016 While the world of architecture and design was mourning the untimely passing away of Dame Zaha Hadid, the first woman winner of the Pritzker Prize dubbed gravity-defying …

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Virtuoso Alexei Volodin Superbly Controlled, and Beautifully Subtle Performance

Nélida Nassar   03.17.2016 Guest soloist Alexei Volodin offers a gracefully woven program honoring Shakespeare. He masterfully tackles the “Romeo and Juliet Ten pieces for Piano” by Prokofiev. From…

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Patrick Fayad A Gifted Pianist from the Mediterranean Eastern Shores

Nélida Nassar   03.17.2016 A gifted pianist, Patrick Fayad performs in Budapest a romantic program during the week of the Francophonie at the Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum and Research Centre. Born …

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Violinist Yury Revich Thrills with the Georgian Philharmonic Strings

Violinist Yury Revich Thrills with the Georgian Philharmonic Strings

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Joe Kodeih’s Brilliant Dangerous Liaisons and a few Missed Opportunities

Nélida Nassar   3.15.2016 In adapting for the stage Choderlos de Laclos’s Dangerous Liaisons, Joe Kodeih has tackled a seminal text of French literature, a subject he has studied closely since his …

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Mezzo Soprano Anita Rachvelishvili and Pianist David Aladashvili: A Beautifully Nuanced Operatic Evening

Nélida Nassar   03.09.2016 David Aladashvili took place behind the piano at Al Bustan auditorium, and swiftly attacked a short piece from the Georgian music repertoire. His rendition was fierce and…

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Venus alias “Venus of Fur” A Probing on Slippery Power Dynamics Between Sexes

Nélida Nassar   02.05.2016 Jacques Maroun directs a rich subject for a psychosexual submission comedy. Lina Khoury and Gabriel Yammine adapted David Ives Broadway success “Venus in Fur” 
re-naming …

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