DIMA ORSHO
Excerpts from Half Moon, a film by Frank Scheffer
Through collaborations with fellow displaced artists like Dima Orsho, in particular the staging of an ambitious opera directly addressing the war, Kinan Azmeh, clarinetist and composer, makes a powerful case for the importance of Arab artists reclaiming their stories and for the potential of art, even in the rarefied realm of classical music, to address urgent current events.
credits:
poet: Aref Hamza
1# excerpt Half Moon
IDFA on stage, Intensely Soulful
Stadschouwburg, 11 nov 2023, Amsterdam
singer: Dima Orsho
clarinet: Kinan Azmeh
cello: Basilius Alawad
camera: Melle van Essen, Benito Strangio
sound: Rik Meijer
2# excerpt Half Moon
Theater Osnabruck, 13 jul 2021
From the opera: Songs of Days to come
composed by Kinan Azmeh
IFFR
singer: Dima Orsho
Osnabruck Symfonieorchester
Conducted by Daniel Inbal
camera: Talal Khoury
sound: Rik Meijer