Muscat. The National RAI symphonic orchestra departs for Oman tomorrow with director James Conlon where they will bring some of the principal Western musical masterpieces to the country, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. The performance will take place at the Royal Opera House of Muscat Thursday 8 December at 19:00. It will be a debut for RAI in Oman after their success in the UAE in 2011 at the Abu Dhabi Classic Festival. Soprano Aga Milolaj, mezzosoprano Elena Manistina, tenor Brandon Jovanovich, bass baritone Paul Gay and the Swedish Radio chorus directed by Peter Dijkstra will be those who bring Friederich Schiller’s “An die Freude”, a symbol of Europe to the Arab peninsula. (9colonne)
