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Donia Massoud is a singer, actress and music researcher, renowned for her contributions to music performance, ethnology, documentation and rearrangement of almost disappearing music heritage from Egypt and the Arabic speaking region.
Between 2000 and 2010, Donia Massoud has travelled to several Arab villages collecting a nearly lost heritage of sacred and profane songs and music material.
Discovering theatrical and choreographic material related to that music heritage, Donia’s renditions of this collection took a theatre and performance based turn, staging these works into unique works that straddle the format of concert, plays and performance art.
Her work has toured extensively in the Arabic Speaking World and Europe for almost two decades,
and was presented on reputable world stages including Kammerspiele (Munich), Cairo Opera House
(Cairo), Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris), Bastionen (Malmo), Jerash Amphitheater (Jerash), Museo
Egizio (Torino), Zanzibar Castle (Zanzibar), Odeon Theater (Amman) among many others.
To shed more light on the theatrical aspects of the songs, Donia decided recently to transform the project into an a cappella format, aiming to draw greater attention to the compelling stories embedded in these songs.
